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unusual facts about Lake Saimaa



Karelia Aviation Museum

Among the smaller objects on display is a radial engine from a Fokker C.X that sank in Lake Saimaa, engine and different parts from a Tupolev SB that went down in Ylämaa.

Vanhojapoikia viiksekkäitä

The song's lyrics tell the sad life stories of Nestori Miikkulainen, an old bachelor living on a rocky island in Lake Saimaa, and a lonely seal who lives in the waters near Nestori's cabin and comes to visit him when the old man plays his harmonica.


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Aaro Hellaakoski

As a geographer he published scientific studies on topics such as the geological history of lake Saimaa and the geological history of lake Puula and spent his summers in geomorphological fieldwork in the Finnish Lakeland for many years.

Huhtiniemi

It is located 2 kilometers west of the town center on a cape of the same name, that extends into lake Saimaa in the North.

Lappeenranta University of Technology

The university campus is situated on the shore of lake Saimaa, about 7 kilometres away from the city center.