Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä is a city center-south of the Finland, capital of the area of Finland-Power station. It counts 85  000  inhabitants (9e  city), 165  000 with the agglomeration (6th). It is an urban pole comparable with that of Kuopio.

Geography

The city is located in full heart of the area of the lakes, at the edge of the lake Jyväsjärvi, prolongation towards the north of the big lake Päijänne. The municipality is of small size, almost completely surrounded by the commune of Jyväskylän maalaiskunta, with only one small border with Muurame in the south.

History

Not historical meeting enters the tribes Saami and those of the Häme, the first mention of the place goes back to 1506. It is the most important village of the parish of Laukaa when the tsar Nicolas Ier of Russia founds the city the March 22nd 1837. It however counts only 189 inhabitants. She experienced a regular development then, becoming an administrative center then industrial uncontested in central Finland. The threshold of the 3.000 inhabitants is crossed in 1900, and the 10.000 in 1938. She accommodates many refugees of Karelia at the end of the Guerre of Continuation, and Alvar Aalto equips its center with several important public buildings. Today, it undergoes the crisis of traditional industries but its population until recently continued to grow, drawn in particular by its vocation from university town.

Policy

In the Years 1980, the city was one of gravitational country. The surge of inhabitants caused a shortage of residences, and an escape of the easy inhabitants towards the common neighbors. The city saw its rate criminality to increase dangerously in the last years, and its unemployment rate to stagnate around 15%. The common one also underwent an important crisis of its public finances, following errors of management and at the beginning of the easy households towards the suburbs. For all these reasons the relations were tightened with the rich person close municipalities. A fusion with the common neighbors, including with Jyväskylän maalaiskunta (the farming community of Jyväskylä , the last example of farming community which did not amalgamate yet with the city centers and preserved this name, on a total of 33 communes surrounding the principal cities after the Guerre of Continuation) is not very possible short-term.

It is the town of birth of current the Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen.

Teaching

The city be the theater of a certain number of first in the curricular area in Finland:
  • First college in Finnish language, 1858
  • First training institute of professors in Finnish language, 1863, which will give rise to the Université of Jyväskylä in 1966.
  • First school of girls in Finnish language, 1864
  • First summer school of the country, 1914

The university is one of most powerful country. It is in particular the only one to propose studies in sports, and of this fact the city saw passing the majority of the Finnish great champions of the last years (ex: Samppa Lajunen).

The city counts in very nearly 40.000 students.

Sports

The city counts a club of Hockey playing in Sm-liiga, JYP Jyväskylä. The football club is him of the third division.

The Rallye of Finland is generally disputed in the close area, the first weekend of August, and attracts á this occasion a many crowd.

Jyväskylä is one of the 4 principal centers of Ski jump of the country, and town of birth of the Finnish great champion of the discipline, Matti Nykänen.

Transport

Air

The Aéroport of Jyväskylä is located at Tikkakoski , on the commune of Jyväskylän maalaiskunta, to 21 km of the center town. It is the 10th Aéroport country, with approximately 150.000 passengers in 2005. The only regular connection serves Helsinki (Finnair). Many charters serve in winter of the sunny destinations.

Railway

VR serves Helsinki in 3 hours, via Tampere (distant of approximately 1:20).

Truck driver

The city marks the crossroads of several important road axes. It is crossed by main road 4 (E75), the North-South main axe of the country. The other major roads are:
  • main road 18 towards the west and Vaasa.
  • main road 9 (E63), come from Turku and Tampere and which continues towards Kuopio.

Distances:

Twinnings

See too

Others

The Asteroid (1500) Jyväskylä, discovered by the Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä the October 16th 1938, bears the name of the city.

External bonds

  • Town of Jyväskylä

Simple: Jyväskylä

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