Lappeenranta 作者： 来源： 发布时间：2021-10-16
一、所属省或是州，具体位置，人口，面积
Lappeenranta is a city and municipality situated on the shore of Lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the Russian border. It belongs to the region of South Karelia. With approximately 72,000 inhabitants (31 July 2020) Lappeenranta is the 13th largest city in Finland, after incorporating the previous municipalities of Lappee and Lauritsala in 1967, Nuijamaa in 1989, Joutseno in 2009, and Ylämaa in 2010.
Lappeenranta is known as an international university city in Finland with Lappeenranta University of Technology and Saimaa University of Applied Sciences which together have approximately 13,000 students from 68 countries. Lappeenranta is also the commercial center of South-East Finland and the meeting point of the EU and Russia, 215 kilometers (134 mi) from both Helsinki and St. Petersburg. Location on the southern shore of Lake Saimaa makes the city the region's center for tourism. Lappeenranta is the second most visited city by Russian tourists in Finland after Helsinki and it competes with Helsinki for the largest share of tax-free sales in Finland. Lappeenranta is a model for renewable energies and a clean living environment. Lappeenranta was the only Finnish city among the 14 Finalists in the international Earth Hour City Challenge 2014, organized by WWF.
二、自然地理
1.地理条件
Lappeenranta is known as a summer city, Mostly due to its closeness to the 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 does have 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 St. 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.
It currently has a humid continental climate of the warm-summer type (Köppen: Dfb), formerly in the continental subarctic zone (Dfc) on older data. 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. 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.
2.交通情况
Lappeenranta is connected to neighboring cities and municipalities by road. The city is located 215 km from Helsinki and 195 km from St. Petersburg. There are multiple daily train departments to destinations within Finland from the Lappeenranta Central Station 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.
三、经济发展和规模
The city's main employers are the: City of Lappeenranta, UPM-Kymmene, South Karelia Social and Health Care District, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Paroc, Nordkalk, VR Group, Fazer, The Armed Forces, Outotec. Lappeenranta is the center of business and multi-faceted culture in the province of South Karelia. The proximity of the border and the location of the city make Lappeenranta a significant center for freight and passenger transport, where internationality is part of everyday life. Industry is also important for Lappeenranta, the largest employers being UPM-Kymmene, Outotec, which bought Larox, a manufacturer of industrial filters in 2009, and Metsä Fiber in Joutseno.
The location of Lappeenranta on the border of the European Union and Russia makes the city truly international. The versatile highway, railway and water transportation routes between Europe and Russia go through Lappeenranta. Located in the center of the city, the airport offers smooth and safe transportation of goods and passengers to any part of the world. Lappeenranta offers a wide range of services for foreign companies, first of all, by the Employment and Economic Development Center for Southeastern Finland, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta Innovation Ltd, Lappeenranta Business Development Company and Lappeenranta Free Zone Oy Ltd.
The Employment and Economic Development Center for Southeastern Finland (TE-Center) is the government’s local service and development organization. TE-Center provides the comprehensive range of Advisory and development services for businesses, entrepreneurs, and private individuals especially in the forest and wood industry, metal industry and logistic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110719020322/http://www.lappeenranta.fi/?deptid=12047
https://web.archive.org/web/20110701025338/http://www.lappeenranta.fi/In_English/Business.iw3
四、产业特点/重点项目
Lappeenranta University of Technology
Every year more than a hundred foreign students and staff members study or work at Lappeenranta University of Technology. Research on transition economies and Russia is of very high quality and also serves companies of entire Finland.
Lappeenranta Innovation Ltd
Lappeenranta Innovation Ltd is a non-profit company which aims at raising the level of expertise and networking and internationalization capabilities in small and medium sized enterprises. It also supports to create new businesses in converging markets. Lappeenranta Innovation Ltd is owned by Lappeenranta City Holding Company Ltd, Technopolis Plc and the Society for Vyborg School of Economics.
In its activities Lappeenranta Innovation Ltd utilizes the special fields of expertise in Southeast Finland: the state-of-art know-how in the forest industry and metal clusters, electrical engineering, energy, Economics as well as in information and communication technology. The company also supports the competence development in SMEs with eBusiness applications of the latest technology.
Lappeenranta Free Zone Oy Ltd
Lappeenranta Free Zone Oy Ltd's working spaces in Raippo and Mustola are located on the EU territory but only 15 minutes away from the Russian border. The business idea of the Lappeenranta Free Zone Oy Ltd is to offer free zone services to Finnish and foreign companies by taking advantage of our location on the EU and Russian border.
Lappeenranta Business Development Company
Lappeenranta Business Development Company offers enterprise services, such as advice to new and operating enterprises and services supporting business operations between the European Union and Russia. Lappeenranta Business Development Company also Manages several business development projects.
A cavalry unit was formed in Lappeenranta by decree of the Emperor of the Finnish Raku Regiment on April 17, 1889. Lappeenranta was chosen for its good climate and transport connections. The city council granted land to the troop department on the outskirts of the city without compensation. Red brick barracks were built for the Lappeenranta garrison. In 1901, with the imperial conscription law, the tarragon regiment was abolished and replaced by a Finnish tarragon regiment. The Uusimaa tarragon regiment was moved to Lappeenranta in 1921, and the 1922 tarragon uniforms became known among the townspeople. The Häme Riding Regiment was also stationed in the city before the wars. The Uusimaa Rakuunapataljoona operated as an independent troop department until 1989 and as a Rakuunaeskadroon under the Maasotakoulu until 2016. The cavalry traditions in Lappeenranta are now maintained by the Rakuunasoittokunta.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110719020322/http://www.lappeenranta.fi/?deptid=12047
https://web.archive.org/web/20110701025338/http://www.lappeenranta.fi/In_English/Business.iw3
五、风景名胜，景点( attractions)
1. Museum of South Karelia
The Museum of South Karelia operates in old stone warehouses located in the Lappeenranta fortress, which were built in the early 19th century. Founded in 1963, the museum is one of the regional responsibility museums of South Karelia, whose collections are based on the collections of the former Lappeenranta City Museum, Vyborg City Museum and Käkisalmi Museum.
The Museum of South Karelia also records the cultural heritage of the transferred Karelia from the Karelian Isthmus and the western part of Ladoga up to the former parish of Jaakkima. Among other things, the museum has an extensive collection of artifacts related to Vyborg. One of its most popular targets is a 24 m² scale model depicting the city of Vyborg on September 2, 1939.
The Museum of South Karelia also includes the Cavalry Museum in the Fortress and the Wolkoff House Museum in the center of Lappeenranta. The director of the museum has been Päivi Partanen since 2011.
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etelä-Karjalan_museo
2.The Saimaa Canal
The Saimaa Canal (Russian: Сайменский канал, Saimenski kanal) is a canal opened for the first time in 1856, connecting the Saimaa watershed from Lappeenranta via Vyborg to the Gulf of Finland in a northwest-southeast direction in Finland and Russia. The current 50-year lease has been in force since 2012.
The Saimaa Canal area, which Finland leases from Russia, is a special strip in the world. The soil is owned by the Russian state, but Finland has leased it under a long lease. There is no similar rental area anywhere else in the world. Macao, Hong Kong and the Panama Canal were similar types of leases, but their agreements are no longer in force.
The Finnish part of the Saimaa canal is entirely in the city of Lappeenranta, and its length is 23.3 kilometers. The Russian side is 19.6 kilometers and is located on the border of the Kamennogorsk urban settlement and the Seleznjovo rural settlement, as well as in the city of Vyborg. The total length of the canal is 42.9 kilometers. The total waterfall from Lake Saimaa to the Gulf of Finland is on average 75.7 meters, and it is staggered by eight barriers with waterfall heights ranging from 5.5 meters to 12.4 meters. Seven openable and six fixed bridges lead across the canal. The canal is 50 to 60 meters wide and up to six meters deep.
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saimaan_kanava
3. Lappeenranta harbor
The Port of Lappeenranta is a port in Lappeenranta City Bay, Linnoitusniemi and Rapasaari. It includes a passenger port and marinas. Rapasaari also served as the city's cargo port before the completion of the port of Mustola.
In the immediate vicinity of the harbor is the historic Lappeenranta fortress. The districts of the port area are the Fortress, the Center and the Spa. Lappeenranta Free Zone Oy Ltd. is responsible for the operations of the Port of Lappeenranta. The Saimaa deep waterway (4.2 m) approaching the city from the northwest extends to Rapasaari. A 4.0-meter waterway branches off to the city bay. At Pappilanniemi, in the north-east, the city becomes a 2.1-meter fairway branching from the deep waterway, which straightens south of Akkasaari, Kaijansaari and Karhusaari.
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lappeenrannan_satama
六、历史文化
1.历史
Pollen analysis has shown that the modern-day municipality of Lappeenranta has been continuously inhabited for at least 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. Lappeenranta incorporated the neighboring 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lappeenranta
2. 文化体育
The most significant art galleries and museums are the Museum of South Karelia, the Lappeenranta Art Museum and the Cavalry Museum, which are located in the fortress. Kulttuuri- ja taidetila ry maintains its own gallery in Galleria Pihato, owned by the city, in the courtyard of the old parsonage in Lappeen. The fortress also houses smaller galleries as well as artists ’studios. Popular cultural events in the summer have included Fortress Night. The country's largest folk dance event for children and young people, Children's Kalenat, is held every other summer in Lappeenranta. An annual Kaamospuhallus youth event is organized in Lappeenranta. Author Laila Hirvisaari (formerly Hietamies) has written numerous novels about Lappeenranta and the people of Lappeenranta, the first of which, the City of Lehmuste, was published in 1972. Laila Hirvisaari has lived in the Lappeenranta region for more than 30 years.
Many other associations operating in the field of culture are based in Lappeenranta. These include, for example, the South Karelian Classical Choir Association (formerly the South Karelian Regional Choir Association), the South Karelian Orchestra Association, the Southeast Finland Arts and Crafts Association Täky, the Karelian Singing Arts Association, the Jewelery Association, the Theater Art Association, the Lappeenranta Youth Circus Association, the Lappeenranta Youth Circus Association. Lappeenranta has the event and culture house Kulttuuritila Nuijamies, whose program includes theater, cinema, stand up and music. It is maintained by Kulttuuritila Nuijamies ry.
Lappeenranta has numerous schools at almost all levels of education, including the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, located in a shared Skinnarila campus of around 8000 students, the Army Academy (branch of the Finnish Defense Forces), South Karelia Vocational College and South Karelia Adult Education Center.
Lappeenranta has several sports teams playing in the top levels of Finnish sports Leagues. SaiPa is an Ice hockey team playing at the highest level in Finland, SM League. 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. Namika Lappeenranta is a basketball team playing in the highest level in the Korisliiga and has won two Championships in 2005 and 2006.
NST plays Floorball in the Floorball League and Rajaritarit is an American football team in the Maple League. Lappeenranta Veiterä, or just Veiterä, plays in the Band League and has been the 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 the Finnish national basketball Championship four times in a row.
七、其他信息
The name Lappeenranta consists of the Genitive of Lappee (the name of the original core town) and the common Noun beach 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 in Lappeenranta's coat of arms.
八、联系方式
Town manager: Kimmo Jarva
Phone:05 616 2220
Email:winkki@lappeenranta.fi
Address:PL 1153101 Lappeenranta
https://www.lappeenranta.fi/fis