Kiuruvesi

Kiuruvesi [ kiuruvɛsi ] is a city in the Finnish Savo region, with 8986 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012). It is located in the northwest of the countryside Savo 120 km northeast of the city of Kuopio at the border with Northern Ostrobothnia and Kainuu.

Overview

The city center occupies only a small portion of 1422.97 square kilometers, the total area. In the spacious, rural surroundings are the villages Aittojärvi, Hautakylä, Heinäkylä, Honkaranta, Kalliokylä, Koivu Järvi, Korpijoki, Koskenkylä, Lahnajoki, Lapinsalo, Laukkala, Luupuvesi, Löytänä, Niemiskylä, Näläntö, Osmanki, Paajakka, Pihlajamäki, Rantakylä, Rapakkojoki, Remeskylä, Rytky, Ryönänjoki, Salmijärvi, Salmenkylä, Sulkava Tihilä, Toiviaiskylä and Turhala.

The congregation, founded in 1873 is a city in 1993. After the Winter War of 1940, some 2,000 Karelians from the eastern territories that Finland was forced to cede to the Soviet Union, based in Kiuruvesi. So also it is in the center of Kiuruvesi next to the Lutheran Church to an Orthodox church, which was for the Eastern Church belonging to settlers built in 1957. In the 1960s, the population of the municipality was 17,000 at its peak, since she is now fallen by the constant migration to the urban centers of southern Finland to less than 10,000.

Kiuruvesi is characterized traditionally agricultural. 2003 worked 27 percent of the working population of the city in the agricultural and forestry sectors. The main products are milk and beef. One-tenth of the agricultural area of Kiuruvesi is farmed organically, which is why the city calls itself the "Capital organic Finland ".

Policy

City ​​council

The strongest political force in Kiuruvesi is the rural - liberal center party. At the municipal election in 2012, she received about 42 % of the vote. In the City Council, the highest decision-making authority in local affairs, it represents 16 out of 35 deputies. The second strongest force in the Council, the National Coalition party with eight seats. Also represented in the City Council, the Left Alliance with seven seats, the right-wing populist True Finns with three and the Christian Democrats with one seat, the Social Democrats have lost their only previous headquarters at the current municipal election.

Sons and daughters

  • Paavo Lonkila (* 1923), cross-country skiers
  • Soini Nikkinen (1923-2012), javelin thrower
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