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Imatra
—  Town  —
Imatran kaupunki
The dam of Imatra

Coat of arms
Coordinates: 61°11′N 028°46′E / 61.183°N 28.767°E / 61.183; 28.767Coordinates: 61°11′N 028°46′E / 61.183°N 28.767°E / 61.183; 28.767
Country Finland
Region South Karelia
Sub-region Imatra sub-region
Charter 1948
Government
 • Town manager Pertti Lintunen
Area(2011-01-01)[1]
 • Total 191.28 km2 (73.85 sq mi)
 • Land 154.99 km2 (59.84 sq mi)
 • Water 36.29 km2 (14.01 sq mi)
Area rank 307th largest in Finland
Population (2012-01-31)[2]
 • Total 28,447
 • Rank 38th largest in Finland
 • Density 183.54/km2 (475.4/sq mi)
Population by native language[3]
 • Finnish 97% (official)
 • Swedish 0.1%
 • Others 2.9%
Population by age[4]
 • 0 to 14 13.8%
 • 15 to 64 64.1%
 • 65 or older 22.1%
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Municipal tax rate[5] 19.5%
Website www.imatra.fi

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 50 years, this amorphous group of settlements has grown into a modern industrial town dominated by Lake Saimaa, the Vuoksi River and the border. It gained its municipal charter in 1971.

On the other side of the border, 7 kilometres (4 mi) away from the centre of Imatra, lies the Russian town of Svetogorsk. St Petersburg is situated 210 km (130 mi) to the southeast, Finland's capital Helsinki is 230 km (140 mi) away and Lappeenranta, the nearest Finnish town, is 37 km (23 mi) away. Imatra belongs to the administrative province of Southern Finland and the region of South Karelia.

An Art Nouveau or Jugend style castle, currently known as Imatran Valtionhotelli, was built near the rapids in 1903 as a hotel for tourists from the Russian Imperial capital Saint Petersburg.

The main employers are Stora Enso Oyj, Town of Imatra, Ovako Bar Oy Ab and the Finnish Border Guard. As of October 2003, total number of employees was 12,423.[6] As of December 2004, 1,868 employees were employed by the Town of Imatra.

Imatra is the birthplace of National Hockey League players Jussi Markkanen and Petteri Nokelainen.

The current mayor of Imatra is Pertti Lintunen.

In motorsport history, is Imatra best known for its road races (former TT-race) from 1963 to 1986. From 1962 to 1982 it was the home of the Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix.

During the Continuation War, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim met with Adolf Hitler in secrecy near the town for the former's 75th birthday.

References [link]

  1. ^ "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (in Finnish and Swedish) (PDF). Land Survey of Finland. https://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/sites/default/files/pinta-alat_2011_kunnannimenmukaan.xls. Retrieved 9 March 2011. 
  2. ^ "Population by municipality as of 31 January 2012" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Information System. Population Register Center of Finland. https://vrk.fi/default.aspx?docid=5919&site=3&id=0. Retrieved 16 February 2012. 
  3. ^ "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. https://pxweb2.stat.fi/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=060_vaerak_tau_107_fi&ti=V%E4est%F6+kielen+mukaan+sek%E4+ulkomaan+kansalaisten+m%E4%E4r%E4+ja+maa%2Dpinta%2Dala+alueittain++1980+%2D+2008&path=../Database/StatFin/vrm/vaerak/&lang=3&multilang=fi. Retrieved 29 March 2009. 
  4. ^ "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. https://pxweb2.stat.fi/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=050_vaerak_tau_104_fi&ti=V%E4est%F6+i%E4n+%281%2Dv%2E%29+ja+sukupuolen+mukaan+alueittain+1980+%2D+2008&path=../Database/StatFin/vrm/vaerak/&lang=3&multilang=fi. Retrieved 28 April 2009. 
  5. ^ "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. https://www.vero.fi/nc/doc/download.asp?id=7996;193801. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 
  6. ^ Imatra town homepage

External links [link]

Media related to Imatra at Wikimedia Commons
Municipalities
Coat of arms of South Karelia
Former municipalities

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Imatra (cinema)

Imatra was a cinema in Tampere, Finland, located in Hämeenkatu 12.

In October 23, 1927, the cinema was destroyed in a fire. The cinema was showing Wages of Virtue (1924, featuring Gloria Swanson), and about 200 people were in the audience, of whom about 80 were in the balcony. The fire was caused by ignition of nitrate film in the projection room just before the pause between reels 3 and 4. The 18-year-old projectionist tried to extinguish the burning film, but the hot gases exploded, throwing him out of the room and leaving the door open. The fire spread to the rest of the building in minutes and a large part of the audience was trapped inside. Some people jumped off the balcony and were injured. When the fire brigade arrived, the whole building was already on fire.

20 people died in the fire and 28 were injured; one of the injured died in the hospital. Over 20,000 people were present at the funeral of the victims, and a memorial was unveiled in 1928 in Kalevankangas cemetery in Tampere.

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1520 Imatra

1520 Imatra, provisional designation 1938 UY, is a large carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 54 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland on 22 October 1938.

The dark C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.8–3.4 AU once every 5 years and 6 months (2,002 days). Its orbit is tilted by 15 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic and shows an eccentricity of 0.10. It takes about 18.635 hours to rotate once around its axis. According to the space-based surveys carried out by IRAS, Akari, WISE/NEOWISE, the body's low albedo is between 0.04 and 0.06.

The minor planet is named for the south-eastern Finnish town Imatra, located in South Karelia near the Russian border, about half way in between St Petersburg and Finland's capital Helsinki.

References

External links

  • Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info)
  • Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
  • Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
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