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40-536: 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,

80-544: 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

120-468: A row. 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

160-520: A very popular location for summer cabins as well as lake cruises. The Saimaa Canal from Lauritsala ( Lappeenranta ) to Vyborg connects Saimaa to the Gulf of Finland . Other canals connect Saimaa to smaller lakes in Eastern Finland and form a network of waterways . These waterways are mainly used to transport wood , minerals , metals , pulp and other cargo , though tourists also use

200-416: A warmer climate than cool. 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

240-465: Is 13.09 inhabitants per square kilometre (33.9/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish . The Finnish thrash metal band Stam1na is from Lemi. In 2018 Lemi won the title "heavy metal capital of the world," a title that was determined by number of bands per capita. Lemi had 13 recognised bands. Due to Lemi only having just 3,076 inhabitants at the time, it won with a ratio of 422.6 bands per 100,000 inhabitants. The municipal center of Lemi

280-727: Is Juvola. The other villages are Ahtiala, Hakulila, Heikkilä, Huttula, Hyvärilä, Iitiä, Juuresaho (prev. Remunen), Juvola, Kaamanniemi, Kuukanniemi, Kapiala, Keskisenpää, Korpela, Kurkela, Kärmeniemi, Laakkola, Lavola, Merenlahti, Metsola, Mikkola, Mikonharju, Nisola, Nuppola, Olkkonen, Parkkola, Pöllölä, Ruohiala, Ruomi, Sairala, Sorvarila, Suomalainen, Suoniala, Suontakainen, Sutela, Taipale, Tevaniemi, Torvenniemi, Tuomelanpelto (partly belongs to Iitiä), Uiminniemi, Urola, Vainikkala, Välikangas and Värtölä. The schools are in Juvola and Kuukanniemi. There are about 750 inhabitants in Kuukanniemi and

320-704: 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

360-538: Is a lake located in the Finnish Lakeland area in southeastern Finland . With a surface area of approximately 4,279 square kilometres (1,652 sq mi), it is the largest lake in Finland, and the fourth-largest natural freshwater lake in Europe . The name Saimaa likely comes from a non-Uralic, non-Indo European substrate language. Alternatively, it has been proposed that the name may be connected to

400-412: 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

440-495: 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

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480-655: 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

520-532: 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%). 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

560-500: Is sometimes called "Suur-Saimaa", or "Greater Saimaa", but this is not an official name. Saimaa exhibits all major types of lake in Finland at different levels of eutrophication . Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs describes the Saimaa basin (an area larger than the lake) as a "maze of detail": according to an English-language statement, the area includes 14,000 islands and "more shoreline here per unit of area than anywhere else in

600-425: 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. The city of Lappeenranta has 73,481 inhabitants, making it

640-773: 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. Lappeenranta is the setting for Bordertown , the Finnish police drama broadcast by Netflix . Lappeenranta is twinned with: Lake Saimaa Saimaa ( / ˈ s aɪ m ɑː / SY -mah , Finnish: [ˈsɑi̯mɑː] ; Swedish : Saimen )

680-677: 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

720-583: The Sami word sápmi . The lake was formed by glacial melting at the end of the Ice Age . Major towns on the lakeshore include Lappeenranta , Imatra , Savonlinna , Mikkeli , Varkaus , and Joensuu . About 6,000 years ago, ancient Lake Saimaa, estimated to cover nearly 9,000 km (3,500 sq mi) at the time, was abruptly discharged through a new outlet. The event created thousands of square kilometres of new residual wetlands. Following this event,

760-401: 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. Located on

800-526: 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. 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

840-460: 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 ). Lappeenranta

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880-562: 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. Lappeenranta has several sports teams playing in top levels of Finnish sports leagues. SaiPa

920-662: 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,

960-405: 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

1000-497: The region saw a population maximum in the decades following only to later return to an ecological development towards old boreal conifer forests which saw a decline in population. The Vuoksi River flows from Saimaa to Lake Ladoga . Most of the lake is dotted with islands, and narrow canals divide the lake in many parts, each having its own name (major basins include Orivesi , Puruvesi , Haukivesi , Yövesi , Pihlajavesi , and Pyhäselkä , among others). The southernmost major basin

1040-420: 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

1080-475: 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

1120-525: 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

1160-415: 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 . 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

1200-815: The territories to be given to the Soviet Union on the basis of the Moscow Armistice , naval artillery was brought to Lemi to create part of the Salpa Line . From the Käkisalmi region the Vahtiniemi battery was transferred to Kärmeniemi consisting of two Canet 152/45-C naval guns. Later, on 11 July 1941, they were taken to Antamoinen to be tested on 22 July. Four days later they were transported by train from Lappeenranta again near Käkisalmi to Vahtiniemi to become operational 9 September 1941. After

1240-429: 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

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1280-443: The villages it affects. Lemi has been founded in 1688 as an independent Evangelical Lutheran parish. Due to the secularization of the local governments according to the decree of 1865, the secular local government was separated from the clerical in 1867 as the municipality of Lemi. Some fighting took place in the cemetery of Lemi during the civil war in 1918. After the winter war as the military hardware had to be displaced from

1320-430: 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

1360-481: The waterways. Lemi Lemi is a municipality of Finland . It is located in the South Karelia region . The municipality has a population of 2,853 (31 October 2024), which make it the smallest municipality in South Karelia in terms of population. It covers an area of 262.48 square kilometres (101.34 sq mi) of which 44.71 km (17.26 sq mi) is water. The population density

1400-499: The world, the total length being nearly 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi)." An endangered freshwater seal , the Saimaa ringed seal , lives only at Saimaa. Another of the lake's endangered species is the Saimaa salmon . Due to its rich, easily accessible asbestos deposits, the shores of the lake are the most probable origin of asbestos-ceramic , a type of pottery made between c. 1900 BC – 200 AD. The areas around Saimaa lake are

1440-480: 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. In 2023, the Evangelical Lutheran Church

1480-632: 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. The name Lappeenranta consists of

1520-483: 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

1560-422: 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. The village of Kauskila, located about eight kilometers to

1600-399: 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. The city's main employers are the: 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

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