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Lappeenranta Villmanstrand
City
Lappeenrannan kaupunki Villmanstrands stad City of Lappeenranta
The city landscape
Coat of arms
Location of Lappeenranta in Finland
Coordinates: 61°04′N 028°11′E / 61.067°N 28.183°E / 61.067; 28.183
Country	Finland
Region	South Karelia
Sub-region	Lappeenranta sub-region
Charter	1649
Government
• City manager	Tuomo Sallinen
Area
• Total	1,723.56 km (665.47 sq mi)
• Land	1,433.99 km (553.67 sq mi)
• Water	290.14 km (112.02 sq mi)
• Rank	47th largest in Finland
Population
• Total	73,481
• Rank	13th largest in Finland
• Density	51.24/km (132.7/sq mi)
Population by native language
• Finnish	89.9% (official)
• Swedish	0.2%
• Others	9.9%
Population by age
• 0 to 14	13.6%
• 15 to 64	62.1%
• 65 or older	24.2%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Climate	Dfc
Website	www.lappeenranta.fi/en

Lappeenranta (Finnish: [ˈlɑpːeːnˌrɑntɑ]; Swedish: Villmanstrand) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of South Karelia. It is located in the southeastern interior of the country and in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Lappeenranta is approximately 73,000, while the sub-region has a population of approximately 89,000. It is the 13th most populous municipality in Finland, and the 11th most populous urban area in the country.

Lappeenranta is located on the shore of Lake Saimaa, 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the Russian border and 64 kilometres (40 mi) from the city of Vyborg. Lappeenranta is one of the most important urban centres in the entire Saimaa region, together with the cities of Imatra, Mikkeli and Savonlinna. Lappeenranta incorporated the late municipalities of Lappee and Lauritsala in 1967, Nuijamaa in 1989, Joutseno in 2009 and Ylämaa in 2010.

Lappeenranta, the region's tourism centre, is the second most visited city in Finland by Russian tourists after Helsinki and competes with Helsinki for the largest share of tax-free sales in Finland. Lappeenranta is a model for renewable energy and a clean living environment. Lappeenranta was the only Finnish city among the 14 finalists of the international Earth Hour City Challenge 2014 organised by WWF. In 2009, Lappeenranta was ranked fourth in the comparison of the largest Finnish cities, while in the 2008 survey the city was ranked fifth. In a survey conducted among business representatives in 2011, Lappeenranta was ranked 17th among Finnish cities in terms of image.

Lappeenranta Airport, opened in 1918 and located in the city centre, is Finland's oldest operating airport.

History

• Sweden 1649–1741
• Russian Empire 1741–1812
• Grand Duchy of Finland 1812–1917
• Finland 1917–1918
• Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic 1918
•  Finland 1918–present

The village of Kauskila, located about eight kilometers to the south of downtown Lappeenranta, was among the most significant Karelian population centers in South Karelia during the Middle Ages. Kauskila has been continuously inhabited for approximately 2,000 years.

Lappeenranta's original core settlement, Lapvesi, later Lappee, was originally formed around a headland jutting into Lake Saimaa, the site of the present fortress. The public market was established here, which became so important as a trading place that general Governor Count Per Brahe the Younger proposed that the Swedish government should grant town privileges to Lapvesi. The town was chartered in 1649 by Queen Christina of Sweden. At the time, Lapvesi was an important port for tar.

Between 1721 and 1743, Lappeenranta was the capital of Kymmenegård and Nyslott County and during this period the Swedes built the fortress out in stages.

In 1741, the Battle of Villmanstrand was fought between the Swedish and Russian armies in the Russo-Swedish War of 1741–1743. The battle ended in a Russian victory. The town was pillaged, wooden structures including the provincial chancellery were burnt and the ecclesiastical archives damaged. The remaining portion of Old Finland still belonging to Sweden, including Lappeenranta, was ceded by Sweden to Russia per the Treaty of Turku. Following the creation of the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1809, Old Finland was joined to the Grand Duchy in 1812 as a gesture of goodwill by Alexander I of Russia.

Lappeenranta incorporated the neighbouring municipalities of Lappee and Lauritsala on 1 January 1967, Nuijamaa on 1 January 1989, Joutseno on 1 January 2009, and Ylämaa on 1 January 2010.

Etymology

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The name Lappeenranta consists of the genitive of Lappee (the name of the original core town) and the common noun ranta which means "shore". The history of Lappeenranta includes the rural municipality of Lappee and the hundred Lapvesi. The Swedish name Villmanstrand contains the words vildman meaning "wild man" and strand also meaning "shore". A wild man is depicted on Lappeenranta's coat of arms.

Geography

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Located on the southern shore of Lake Saimaa, Lappeenranta's neighboring municipalities on the Finnish side are Imatra, Lemi, Luumäki, Miehikkälä, Ruokolahti and Taipalsaari, and on the Russian side, neighbors include Svetogorsk and Kamennogorsk.

Climate

Lappeenranta has a humid continental climate of the warm-summer type (Köppen: Dfb). The summers are longer, although rarely hot, and usually warm. Some of the warmest summers in the country can be found here, due to its orientation: southern but inland. Being in an eastern part of Finland, the winters are often harsh but still mild compared to areas further east.

Anchorage has some similarities by being of marine influence of hot currents and at the same time of the marginal continentality. But Lappeenranta is still able to receive heat waves that cross Central Europe in a warmer climate than cool.

Climate changes

Between 2000 and 2017 the temperature change was greater than the whole previous century, with +1.2 °C (higher values than Helsinki or Oulu). Since 2000 the number of warm days (> 24 °C) has become 2 per year, while the 1900 data indicates only 2 days per decade. From the first half of the twentieth century the days above 24 °C changed from rare to occasional in the second half to regular in the present century. There was also a 17.5 decrease in temperature below −1 °C for the same comparison period. 2015 was the hottest year since 1900, having one of the less than 50 days with freezing days. Work to reduce the temperature increase has been carried out; the city is again among the best 45 cities in the world in the WWF City Challenge 2016. One of the goals is to reduce carbon dioxide by 30% by 2020 and zero emissions by 2050. According to the 1961-1990 climate norms, the climate of Lappeenranta was a climate of continental subarctic zone (Köppen: Dfc) closely bordering on the humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb). Compared to decades ago, the total amount of precipitation has also increased somewhat.

Demographics

Population

The city of Lappeenranta has 73,481 inhabitants, making it the 13th most populous municipality in Finland. The Lappeenranta region has a population of 88,511. In Lappeenranta, 10.1% of the population has a foreign background, which is the same as the national average.

Languages

Population by mother tongue (2023)

Lappeenranta is a monolingual Finnish-speaking municipality. There are 121 Swedish speakers in Lappeenranta, or 0.2% of the population. As English and Swedish are compulsory school subjects, functional bilingualism or trilingualism acquired through language studies is not uncommon.

At least 50 different languages are spoken in Lappeenranta. The most commonly spoken foreign languages are Russian (4.6%), English (0.5%), Chinese (0.4%) and Estonian (0.3%).

Immigration

Population by country of birth (2022)
Nationality	Population	%
Finland	66,437	91.4
Soviet Union	2,312	3.2
Russia	753	1.0
China	225	0.3
India	174	0.2
Iran	174	0.2
Sweden	161	0.2
Estonia	157	0.2
Turkey	154	0.2
Thailand	140	0.2
Vietnam	135	0.2
Other	1,828	2.5

As of 2023, there were 7,357 persons with a migrant background living in Lappeenranta, or 10.1% of the population. The number of residents who were born abroad was 6,983, or 9.6% of the population. The number of persons with foreign citizenship living in Lappeenranta was 4,621 Most foreign-born citizens came from the former Soviet Union, Russia, China and India.

The relative share of immigrants in Lappeenranta's population is the same as to the national average. Moreover, the city's new residents are increasingly of foreign origin. This will increase the proportion of foreign residents in the coming years.

Religion

In 2023, the Evangelical Lutheran Church was the largest religious group with 66.8% of the population of Lappeenranta. Other religious groups accounted for 2.6% of the population. 30.5% of the population had no religious affiliation.

Economy

The city's main employers are the:

• City of Lappeenranta
• Fazer
• Lappeenranta University of Technology
• Nordkalk
• Paroc
• Metso Outotec
• South Karelia Social and Health Care District
• The Armed Forces
• UPM-Kymmene
• VR Group

Tourism

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Lappeenranta is known as a summer city, mostly due to its closeness to Lake Saimaa, Europe's 4th largest lake. The eponymous GoSaimaa (www.gosaimaa.com) provides all the touristic activities in the area. In addition, its inland location means that summers tend to be warmer and winters colder than along the coastal areas.

Lappeenranta has a healthy winter tourism industry. Various cabins around Lake Saimaa, as well as numerous snowmobiles, Nordic skating, floating in the river, reindeer rides, paragliding, skiing and sledding tracks draw a fair number of winter visitors. The proximity of the Russian border is increasingly evident in the number of Russian tourists visiting the city. In fact, Lappeenranta is closer to Saint Petersburg (195 km or 121 miles) than it is to Helsinki, the capital of Finland (220 km or 140 miles). The presence of Russian tourists is noticeable by the many Russian registered cars on the streets and the use of Cyrillic letters in signs of some shops.

Places and events

• The old fortress, with a number of museums, cafés and the oldest Russian Orthodox church in Finland.
• St. Mary's Church of Lappee, an 18th-century wooden church in the center of the city.
• The harbour area, with cruises to Vyborg and the nearby Saimaa Canal.
• The central market place, where you can enjoy the local specialities, such as meat pies known as "Atomi" (atom) or "Vety" (hydrogen).
• The Night of The Fortess, a two-day cultural festival held in early August.
• The Lappeenranta Ballet Gala in late August.
• The annual Lappeenranta National Singing Contest.
• The biggest sand castle in Finland is built next to Port of Lappeenranta every summer.
• There are three private cinema theatres in Lappeenranta: Kino-Aula, Nuijamies and Finnkino.
• Major league home games in ice-hockey (SaiPa), basketball (Namika Lappeenranta) and other sports.
• The IIHF World Championship Under 18, in 2014
• Unlimited Racing Event, on 27 and 29 June 2014

Sports

Lappeenranta has several sports teams playing in top levels of Finnish sports leagues.

SaiPa is an ice hockey team playing in the highest level in Finland, SM-liiga. SaiPa was fourth in the national Ice hockey league in the season of 2013–2014. 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship - Tournament was played Kisapuisto Ice Hall, Lappeenranta & Imatra Ice Hall during 17–27 April 2014. United States won the tournament, Czech Republic was second and Canada was the third.

Lappeenrannan NMKY is a basketball team playing in the third highest level in I-division B and have won two championships in 2005 and 2006.

NST plays floorball in the Salibandyliiga and Rajaritarit is an American football team in the Vaahteraliiga.

Lappeenrannan Veiterä, or just Veiterä, plays in Bandyliiga and has been Finnish champions five times, including in 2017. They have been the champions for women and for girls born in 1995 and 1998. The city hosted the first ever Women's Bandy World Championship in 2004 and in 2014 the tournament was again played in Lappeenranta. The Old Boys World Cup is annually hosted in town, in 2017 for the seventh time.

In women's sports Catz Lappeenranta plays basketball and Pesä Ysit plays Finnish baseball, both in the top leagues of the nation. Catz has won Finnish national basketball championship four times in a row.

Transport

Lappeenranta is connected to neighbouring cities and municipalities by road. The city is located 215 kilometres (134 mi) from Helsinki and 195 kilometres (121 mi) from St. Petersburg. From Lappeenranta, the distance to Joensuu, the capital of North Karelia, is 233 kilometres (145 mi) along Highway 6.

There are multiple daily train departures to destinations within Finland from the Lappeenranta and Joutseno stations and to Russia from Vainikkala station. The Allegro train service operating between Helsinki and St. Petersburg stops in Vainikkala, a village in Lappeenranta. The journey time to Helsinki is about 2 hours and St. Petersburg about 1.5 hours.

During the summer, when Lake Saimaa and the Saimaa Canal are accessible by water, there is a visa-free connection by ship from Lappeenranta to Vyborg, Russia.

The regionally owned Lappeenranta Airport is located west of the city center. The airport predominantly serves charter flights to southern Europe, the Canary Islands and Madeira, as well as regularly scheduled flights on Irish airline Ryanair to Italy.

The public transport is by bus and is called Jouko. The Jouko-buses are pink-colored and they serve 18 sub-urban lines (1, 1X, 2, 2H, 3, 3K, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26) and 21 regional lines (100, 101, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 120, 121, 130, 131, 200, 201, 300, 301, 500, 601, 602, 603, 610, 620). Jouko has Waltti-travel card, to which you can charge a 30-day season ticket (travel zones A-D) or a value tickets, which works also in other finnish cities which do have the Waltti-ticket system. Other ways to buy a ticket in Jouko-buses are single tickets (payment with cash or credit card), mobile-tickets (PayIQ, etc.) and 24-hour ticket. Jouko has also own route-guide (https://lappeenranta.digitransit.fi/), where you can plan a route, see timetables and also see all the Jouko-buses in the map. You can also view delays, exceptions, and other releases. Jouko sub-urban transport is operated by Savonlinja and V-S Bussipalvelut. Regional lines are operated by Savonlinja, Soisalon Liikenne, V-S Bussipalvelut, Vento and Mikkonen. The bus fleet consists of low-floor city buses, and the bus models are Scania Citywide II Electric, Volvo 8900LE and Scania Citywide LE Suburban (two of them are CNG-buses).

Jouko sub-urban routes

• 1 University – Sammonlahti – City centre – Lauritsala – Kiiskinmäki
• 1X University – Sammonlahti – City centre
• 2 Kivisalmi – City centre – Lauritsala – Hovinpelto (on Sundays via central hospital)
• 2H Hovinpelto – Lauritsala – Railway station – Leiri – City centre
• 3 Leiri – Railway station – City centre – Pikisaari – Kariniemi – Kivisalmi
• 3K Kivisalmi – City centre – Leiri – Kesämäki
• 3K Kesämäki – Railway station – City centre – Kivisalmi
• 4 Mäntylä – City centre – Karhuvuori
• 4 City centre – Karhuvuori
• 5 University – Sammonlahti – City centre – Railway station
• 7 Mustola – Lauritsala – City centre
• 8 Kariniemi – Pikisaari – City centre – Sammonlahti – Ruoholampi – Rutola
• 12 University – Sammonlahti – City centre
• 12 Kivisalmi – City centre
• 12 University – Sammonlahti – City centre – Karhuvuori – Lauritsala – Hovinpelto – Mustola – Kiiskinmäki
• 12 Kiiskinmäki – Kanavansuu – Lauritsala – City centre – Kivisalmi
• 14 Mäntylä – City centre – Karhuvuori – Lauritsala – Mustola
• 21 Vuoksenniska – Sotkulampi – Imatrankoski – Mansikkala (Keskusasema / Central station) –Mustalampi – Vuoksenniska
• 22 Vuoksenniska – Mustalampi – Mansikkala (Keskusasema / Central station) – Imatrankoski – Sotkulampi – Vuoksenniska
• 23 Jakola – Imatrankoski – Mansikkala (Keskusasema / Central station) – Sienimäki – Vuoksenniska – Rautio – Huhtanen
• 24 Mansikkala (Keskusasema / Central station) – Imatrankoski – Meltola – Salo-Issakka – Perä-Meltola – Meltola – Imatrankoski – Mansikkala (Keskusasema / Central station)
• 25 Imatran Kylpylä (Imatra Spa) – Mansikkala (Keskusasema / Central station) – Saareksiinmäki – Meltola – Imatrankoski
• 26 Perä-Meltola – Meltola – Imatrankoski – Mansikkala (Keskusasema / Central station) – Mustalampi – Sienimäki – Imatrankoski – Meltola – Perä-Meltola

Education

Lappeenranta is known as an international university city in Finland with LUT University and LAB University of Applied Sciences which together have approximately 13,000 students from 68 countries. Lappeenranta is also a commercial centre of South-East Finland and the meeting point of the EU and Russia, 215 kilometres (134 mi) from both Helsinki and St. Petersburg.

Lappeenranta has numerous schools at almost all levels of education, including the LUT University, LAB University of Applied Sciences, located in a shared Skinnarila campus of around 8000 students, the Army Academy (branch of the Finnish Defence Forces), South Karelia Vocational College and South Karelia Adult Education Centre.

Notable people

• Anna-Kaarina Aalto, physician and politician
• Antti Aalto, former ice-hockey player
• Koop Arponen, singer and winner of the fourth series of the Idols in 2008
• Ivan Fedotov, Finnish-born Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
• Kaarlo Halttunen, former actor
• Laila Hirvisaari (formerly Laila Hietamies), novelist. She has written a novel series about Lappeenranta and its people.
• Horna, Finnish black metal band
• Kari Jormakka, philosopher, architect and architecture theorist
• Kotiteollisuus, hard rock band
• Matti Lehtinen, operatic baritone
• Kiba Lumberg, Finnish author and writer
• Pave Maijanen, musician
• Miikka Multaharju, football player
• Jukka Paarma, former Archbishop of Turku and Finland
• Tiia Piili, gymnast
• Saku Puhakainen, football player
• Jaska Raatikainen, drummer of the band Children of Bodom
• Jaana Savolainen, cross country skier
• Sargeist, Finnish black metal band
• Satanic Warmaster, Finnish black metal band
• Petri Skriko, retired ice-hockey player in the NHL in US
• Juha Tiainen, former Olympic gold medallist in hammer throw
• Mokoma, thrash metal band
• Battlelore, symphonic metal band
• Hanna Pakarinen, the first Idols winner in Finland came from Lappeenranta.
• Christian Ruuttu, former ice hockey player in the NHL
• Vesa Vierikko, Finnish actor
• Vesa Viitakoski, former ice hockey player in SM-liiga

In media

Lappeenranta is the setting for Bordertown, the Finnish police drama broadcast by Netflix.

Twin towns – sister cities

Lappeenranta is twinned with:

• Rakvere, Estonia
• Stykkishólmur, Iceland
• Drammen, Norway
• Örebro, Sweden
• Kolding, Denmark
• Klin, Russia
• Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
• Szombathely, Hungary
• Lake Worth Beach, Florida, US
• Chernihiv, Ukraine

See also

• Imatra
• Joensuu
• Saimaa Canal

Notes

1. Statistics Finland classifies a person as having a "foreign background" if both parents or the only known parent were born abroad.

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External links

• Official website
• Official tourism site
• Official Saimaa tourism site

v t e Places adjacent to Lappeenranta
Taipalsaari Ruokolahti Imatra Lemi Luumäki Lappeenranta Svetogorskoye Settlement Municipal Formation [ru] Kamennogorskoye Settlement Municipal Formation [ru] Miehikkälä (Kymenlaakso) Seleznyovskoye [ru]

v t e Municipalities of South Karelia
Municipalities	Imatra Lappeenranta Lemi Luumäki Parikkala Rautjärvi Ruokolahti Savitaipale Taipalsaari
Former municipalities	Joutseno Lappee Lauritsala Nuijamaa Saari Simpele Suomenniemi Uukuniemi Ylämaa
South Karelia Finland

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1. Stockholm 1,605,030 2. Copenhagen 1,330,993 3. Helsinki 1,268,296 4. Oslo 1,019,513 5. Gothenburg 599,011 6. Malmö 339,313 7. Tampere 334,112 8. Aarhus 280,534 9. Bergen 259,958 10. Turku 252,468 11. Stavanger/Sandnes 237,369 12. Reykjavík 228,231 13. Oulu 208,939 14. Trondheim 186,364 15. Odense 180,302 16. Uppsala 177,074 17. Upplands Väsby och Sollentuna 149,461 18. Aalborg 140,897 19. Västerås 128,534 20. Örebro 126,009 21. Lahti 119,068 22. Jyväskylä 117,974 23. Fredrikstad/Sarpsborg 116,373 24. Linköping 115,672 25. Helsingborg 113,816 26. Kristiansand 111,633 27. Drammen 109,416 28. Jönköping 100,259 29. Norrköping 97,854 30. Lund 94,393 31. Porsgrunn/Skien 93,778 32. Umeå 90,412 33. Kuopio 88,520 34. Pori 84,026 35. Gävle 77,586 36. Södertälje 75,773 37. Borås 73,980 38. Esbjerg 72,398 39. Halmstad 71,316 40. Växjö 71,009 41. Eskilstuna 70,342 42. Joensuu 67,811 43. Karlstad 65,856 44. Vaasa 65,414 45. Randers 62,482 46. Kolding 61,121 47. Horsens 59,449 48. Sundsvall 58,807 49. Vejle 57,655 50. Lappeenranta 55,743

v t e 50 most populous municipalities in Finland

1. Helsinki 683,669 2. Espoo 319,811 3. Tampere 260,051 4. Vantaa 251,070 5. Oulu 216,174 6. Turku 205,949 7. Jyväskylä 149,263 8. Kuopio 125,597 9. Lahti 121,447 10. Pori 83,375 11. Joensuu 78,764 12. Kouvola 78,514 13. Lappeenranta 73,481 14. Vaasa 70,382 15. Hämeenlinna 68,421 16. Seinäjoki 66,556 17. Rovaniemi 65,673 18. Mikkeli 51,960 19. Porvoo 51,698 20. Salo 50,890 21. Kotka 50,336 22. Kokkola 48,372 23. Hyvinkää 47,041 24. Järvenpää 46,795 25. Lohja 45,670 26. Nurmijärvi 44,991 27. Tuusula 42,112 28. Kirkkonummi 41,610 29. Rauma 38,957 30. Kerava 38,444 31. Kaarina 36,538 32. Kajaani 36,517 33. Nokia 36,083 34. Kangasala 33,905 35. Ylöjärvi 33,651 36. Savonlinna 31,597 37. Vihti 28,747 38. Riihimäki 28,663 39. Raseborg 27,108 40. Raisio 25,595 41. Lempäälä 24,875 42. Imatra 24,784 43. Raahe 23,559 44. Sastamala 23,530 45. Hollola 22,834 46. Sipoo 22,789 47. Siilinjärvi 21,240 48. Pirkkala 20,996 49. Tornio 20,989 50. Mäntsälä 20,910

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