Kuttura is a small village in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

, in the southwest corner of the municipality of

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on the west bank of the Ivalo River next to the

Hammastunturi Wilderness Area The Hammastunturi Wilderness Area ( fi, Hammastunturin erämaa; literally translated "tooth fell") is located in Lapland, Finland. It was established in 1991 like all the other 11 wilderness areas of Finland. It covers situated in a fell and fore ...

. At the end of 2005, 21 people lived in the village.

History

Kuttura is named after Guttorm Magga, a Sámi man from

Enontekiö Enontekiö (; sme, Eanodat ; sv, Enontekis; smn, Iänudâh; sms, Jeänõk) is a municipality in the Finnish part of Lapland with approx. inhabitants. It is situated in the outermost northwest of the country and occupies a large and very spars ...

(''Eanodat'') who settled in the area with his son Nils in 1898. Other settlers came from Enontekiö as well. President Urho Kekkonen visited the village while skiing from

to Saariselkä in 1956, at which time the villages raised the issue of having a road to the village. Kekkonen promised to take care of the matter, which he did, and the villagers received their road in 1959. It is said that the road follows the straight line that Kekkonen drew on a map. Kekkonen's visit also gave rise to a placename: Kekkosenoja (Kekkonen's ditch). Until 1994, when a bridge was built, the only way to cross the Ivalo River was by boat.

References

Villages in Inari, Finland {{Lapland-geo-stub