Kuopio: Difference between revisions

After [[World War II]], the city's population grew significantly, due in part to the settlement of [[Karelians|Karelian evacuees]] and the high birth rate. The rapid growth of the population forced the expansion of schools; at the end of the 1940s, support was also provided for [[school transport]]s<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.koulut.kuopio.fi/Koulu125/1947/ELA1947.HTM |title=Kaupungin elämää 1947 |access-date=12 June 2020 |archive-date=27 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227145707/http://www.koulut.kuopio.fi/Koulu125/1947/ELA1947.HTM |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the provision of free [[school meal]]s (the poor people had received it in Kuopio since 1902).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.koulut.kuopio.fi/Koulu125/1872/ka1872.htm |title=Koulun arkea 1872 |access-date=12 June 2020 |archive-date=7 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807202537/http://koulut.kuopio.fi/koulu125/1872/ka1872.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The large number of young people and the lack of activities for youths also gave rise to outbreaks of violence in the city, such as the Kuopio Market Riot in September 1965 which was a spontaneous event instigated by two young men; 30 young people were fined for rioting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2010/04/22/torimellakka-kuopiossa-1965|title=Torimellakka Kuopiossa 1965|website=Yle.fi|date=22 April 2010 |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.savonsanomat.fi/paikalliset/3225378|title=Erikoislehti kertoo: Miksi nuoriso riehui Kuopion torilla?|date=13 January 2015|website=Savonsanomat.fi|access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref> In the 1960s, the first construction of the actual suburb, [[Puijonlaakso]], began. Since then, the new areas have each grown in turn: in the 1960s, Puijonlaakso and Tiihotar (as part of Saarijärvi); In the 1970s Saarijärvi, Kelloniemi and Levänen; In the 1980s, Jynkkä and Neulamäki.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}