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.

Imatra

Imatra is a town and municipality in eastern Finland, Imatra was founded in 1948 on the territory of three municipalities – Jääski, Ruokolahti and Joutseno. Finland ceded 11% of its territory to the Soviet Union after the Winter War. Jääski lost 85% of its territory and it was decided that a new municipality, Imatra, shall be established on the remaining 15% of Jääski and some areas of Ruokolahti and Joutseno. This is why the Imatra coat of arms has three flashes – in honour of those previous municipalities that granted areas to it. Imatra is 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.

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.

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