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, website
www.puumala.fi
Puumala () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
of
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 Bo ...
. It is located in the
Southern Savonia region
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. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water.
The
population density
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is .
The municipality is unilingually
Finnish.
The main road route through the region is route 62, which connects to
Mikkeli
Mikkeli (; sv, S:t Michel; la, Michaelia) is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located in what used to be the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Etelä-Savo region. The municipality has a population of () (around 34,000 ...
to the north and
Imatra
Imatra is a town and municipality in southeastern Finland. Imatra is dominated by Lake Saimaa, the Vuoksi River and the border with Russia. On the other side of the border, away from the centre of Imatra, lies the Russian town of Svetogorsk ...
to the south. Until the year 1995 a
cable ferry
A cable ferry (including the terms chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in many cases propelled) across a river or large body of water by cables connected to both shores. Early cable ferries often ...
connected the two sides of Puumalansalmi-strait. In 1995, a bridge replaced the ferry. The bridge is a very dominant structure when looking Puumala town center from a distance.
Puumala has relatively good services compared to the amount of population. In the town center is situated a post office, an
Alko store, a kiosk, several supermarkets and a few restaurants. The reason for the survival of these entrepreneurs is the arrival of summer inhabitants who triple the population of Puumala during the season.
In June 1788, Swedish soldiers wearing uniforms of the
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, Romanization of Russian, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the earl ...
, staged an attack against the town. This would allow
King Gustav III to declare a defensive
war against the
Russian Empire
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, as Swedish law prohibited starting offensive wars without approval by the
Riksdag.
The subject of Puumala's
coat of arms
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refers to the local history: in the
Treaty of Åbo in 1743, Puumala became a border parish, but due to its strategic location, the narrow Puumalansalmi has been the scene of several battles since the 16th century, which the flaming
bombshells on the coat of arms refer to. The coat of arms was designed by Tapio Vallioja, and the Puumala municipal council approved it at its meeting on September 24, 1962. The
Ministry of the Interior
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Lists of current ministries of internal affairs
Named "ministry"
* Ministr ...
approved the coat of arms for use on April 18, 1963.
The
Puumala virus is named after this place as it was first isolated from samples from the Puumala area.
Gallery
File:Puumalansalmen silta (1).jpg
File:Puumala_2018.jpg
File:Puumalachurch2.jpg
File:Puumalachurch1.jpg
References
External links
Municipality of Puumala– Official website
Municipalities of South Savo
Populated places established in 1868
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