Juankoski

Juankoski is a city center-is Finland, in the area of Savonie of North and the province of Eastern Finland.

History

The first mention of the place dates from the Traité of Teusina between the Sweden and the Russia in 1595. A terminal border indeed there was found. A few years later, Sweden pushes back the border towards the east and the terminal marks nothing any more but the limit between the Savonie and the Karelia.

An iron ore foundry settles in 1746 there. The industrial calling of the city goes back to this time and never contradicted itself since. Juankoski remains however a miniature industrial town, just cash 2.000 inhabitants at the dawn of the Guerre of Winter.

The commune strongly increased in 1971, while amalgamating with its neighbors Säyneinen and Muuruvesi . She was proclaimed city the February 28th 1998.

Today, two small factories related to the industry of the Papier took over foundry, and are not enough to give work to all the inhabitants who from there will seek a better future in the big cities.

Geography

The commune is rather small in an area of generally wide municipalities. 20% of its surface are covered by the lakes.

The city is built logically at the place where the lake Vuotjärvi flows in the lake Muuruvesi, a satellite of the Kallavesi. Indeed, the uneven one of 13 meters in a few hundred meters provided energy and was an ideal site to install an industrial center.

The close municipalities are Kaavi in the east, Tuusniemi in the south, Kuopio in south-west (60 km of center in center), Nilsiä in the west, Rautavaara in north and finally Juuka in the east (Karelia of North).

Twinnings

External bonds

Town of Juankoski

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