Luumäki

Luumäki is a municipality south-east of the Finland, in the area of Karelia of the South.

History

The parish is yielded by the Sweden to the Russia following the Traité of Åbo in 1743. It is found near the new border and gains of this fact an strategic interest before non-existent. Catherine II of Russia made there build important fortifications in 1773 whose ruins are visible still today.

Carl Ludwig Engel builds there the church of the village in 1845, then the future Finnish president Pehr Evind Svinhufvud lance tourism in the commune by building in 1898 there its residence of holidays. It is there that he dies, little before the end of the Guerre of Continuation (1944).

Following the War of Winter (1940), a new line of fortification is built, inspired by the Ligne Maginot in France. This Salpalinja, whose most spectacular vestiges are visible in the east of the commune of Luumäki, marked the last line of defense of the country. It forever have to be used because the Guerre as Continuation will be stopped front.

Like the other municipalities of Karelia not annexed by the the USSR, it collects refugees come from the part yielded to Soviet. It is since a peaceful municipality whose population decrease slowly.

Geography

The commune is crossed by important the Moraine of Salpausselkä, and marks of this fact the southern edge of the area of the lakes. The north of common counts many lakes, and on their 800 km of banks 3.000 houses of holidays are built.

The village is crossed by main road 6, the road main roads of the east of the country. Lappeenranta is to 38 km with the east and Kouvola 50 km in the west. By the main road 26 Hamina is to exactly 50 km.

The railway come from Helsinki is divided here into two branches, one continues towards the towns of Lappeenranta and Imatra, the other file on Saint-Pétersbourg via the border post of Vainikkala.

The common neighbors are Savitaipale and Lemi in north, Lappeenranta in the east, Ylämaa in south-east, and side Vallée of Kymi Miehikkälä in the south, Anjalankoski in south-west and Valkeala in the west.

External bonds

  • Municipality of Luumäki

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