- Imatra
Imatra is a town and municipality in eastern
Finland , founded in 1948 around three industrial settlements near the Finnish-Russian border. In the course of the last 50year s, this amorphous group of settlements has grown into a modern industrial town dominated by LakeSaimaa , theVuoksi River and the border. It gained its municipal charter in 1971.On the other side of the border, 7
kilometre s away from the centre of Imatra, lies the Russian town ofSvetogorsk .St Petersburg is situated 210 km to the southeast, Finland's capitalHelsinki is 230 km away andLappeenranta , the nearest Finnish town, is 37 km away. Imatra belongs to the administrative province ofSouthern Finland and the region ofSouth Karelia .*Total surface area: 191.6 square kilometres (Land area 155.3 km², water area 36.3 km²)
*Population: 29,738 (as ofDecember 31 ,2004 )The main employers:
*Stora Enso Oyj
*Municipality of Imatra
*Ovako Bar Oy Ab
*Border Guard*Number of jobs: 12,426 (October 2003; figures from the Imatra town homepage)
*Number of municipal employees: 1868 (as at December 2004) (including permanent staff but excluding employees paid by the employment creation funds)Imatra is the birthplace of
National Hockey League playersJussi Markkanen andPetteri Nokelainen The current mayor of Imatra is Pertti Lintunen.
External links
* [http://www.imatra.fi Official site]
* [http://www.gosaimaa.fi/en/index.php?m=10&sm=269&id=3197 goSaimaa.fi – Travel information about Imatra]
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