Lapinlahti

Lapinlahti [ lɑpinlɑhti ] (Swedish Lapinlax ) is a municipality in the Finnish Savo region, with 10,292 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012). It is 24 kilometers south of the city Iisalmi and 60 kilometers north of Kuopio in the countryside Savo.

Geography

The Onkivesi Lake divides the community into a western and an eastern part. In addition to the Kirchdorf of Lapinlahti on the eastern shore of the Onkivesi with 4,000 inhabitants Lapinlahti has two other centers of settlement, Nerkoo and Alapitkä. All three are located on State Road 5, which crosses Finland in the north-south direction. In addition to the municipality includes the villages Alapitkä, Heinäaho, Horsmanmäki, Karvasalmi, Kivistö, Kiukonmäki, Lappetelä, Leppälahti, Luhi, Martikkala, Mäkikylä, Mäntylahti, Ollikkala, Pajujärvi, Pitkämäki, Puoliväli, Pällikäs, Tölvä and Väisälänmäki. With the merger with community Varpaisjärvi came on 1 January 2011 or added Varpaisjärvi and the villages Juminen, Korpinen, Kärsämäki, Lukkarila, Pitkälänmäki, Sutela, Korpijärvi, Petäys - Paloinen, Karsanlahti, Syvärinpää, Jonsa, Urimolahti and Lukkarila.

The eastern part of the township is hilly. There is also the 220 ​​meter high hill Väisälänmäki. The Väisälänmäki part thanks to its picturesque views of the surrounding lakes landscape to the Official List of the Finnish " National Landscapes ".

Policy

Dominant political force in Lapinlahti is the rural - liberal center party. Despite losses in the local elections in 2012 it is more than 40% of the vote and 15 of the 35 seats by far the strongest party in the municipal council. The second strongest party was the right-wing populist True Finns with seven seats. Also represented in the municipal council, the Social Democrats with four seats, the Left Alliance and the conservative National Coalition Party, with three members, as well as the Green Federation and the Christian Democrats with one representative each. Right off the bat also a council member received the first list is encountered Lapinlahti 2013.

Traffic

About the Savo Railway, which runs from Kouvola after Iisalmi, Lapinlahti is connected to the Finnish rail network. In the municipality, the state road 5 that goes from southern Finland to Lapland in the north runs largely parallel to the railway line.

Sports

In Lapinlahti regular international FIS races will be run in cross-country skiing since 2002. Some internationally successful athletes have achieved initial success there, such as Petter Northug of Norway, the 2005 runner-up in a race of Scandinavia Cup was as a 18 -year-old in February.

Sons of the community

• Paavo Ruotsalainen (1777 - 1852), Finnish farmer and lay preacher and leader of the Finnish revivalist.
• Juhani Aho (1861 - 1921), Finnish writer and journalist, co-founder of the newspaper Päivälehti.
• Pekka Halonen (1865 - 1933), Finnish painter who was known especially for his landscape paintings.