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3 unusual facts about Jyväskylä


Alvar Aalto Medal

The award is often made at the Alvar Aalto Symposium, held every four years in Jyväskylä, Aalto’s home town.

Finnish Resistance Movement

The Finnish Resistance Movement is active in at least the cities of Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Oulu, Jyväskylä and Pori.

Viitaniemi School

Viitaniemi School is a lower secondary school in Jyväskylä, Finland.


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Five of them are preserved in Finland, no. 950 at Joensuu, no. 951 at Tuuri, no. 953 at Haapamäki, no. 961 at Jyväskylä and no. 964 at the Veturimuseo at Toijala.

Eldbjørg Hemsing

Abroad she has appeared with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra/Alan Buribayev, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Jyvaskyla Sinfonia in Finland, the Czech Chamber Orchestra of Pardubice, the Ashland Symphony Orchestra in the USA, as well as making several appearances with the Ukrainian National Philharmonic Orchestra.

JJK

JJK Jyväskylä, a Finnish football team from the city of Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä rail accident

The Jyväskylä rail accident occurred on 6 March 1998 in Jyväskylä, Finland, when the Sr1-driven express train P105 from Turku bound for Joensuu via Pieksämäki derailed.

Masters athletics

The most recent Indoor Championships were held in Jyväskylä, Finland in April 2012.

Robin Bullough

Bullough travelled widely to facilitate collaboration, with regular visiting appointments and research visits to Copenhagen, Jyväskylä, Los Alamos, DTH Lyngby in Denmark, and Ben Gurion University in Israel.

SAKO

After several organizational shifts in state ownership, the SAKO name remained for the privately owned gun- and cartridge-producing company located in the cities of Riihimäki and Jyväskylä (former Valmet factory in Tourula, which was later closed).

Turku Airport

In vicinity of Airport there are two highways E63 (Finnish national road 9) that goes from Turku to Tampere and Jyväskylä, and E18 (Finnish national road 1) which goes from Naantali via the Turku Ring Road and from Turku to Helsinki and Saint Petersburg, Russia.


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