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4 unusual facts about Lappeenranta


2014 IIHF World U18 Championships

The 2014 IIHF U18 World Championship will be the 16th IIHF World U18 Championship, and will be hosted in Lappeenranta and Imatra, Finland.

Elisenvaara

The settlement grew around the railroad junction, with railroad connections to Vyborg, Sortavala, Lappeenranta and Savonlinna.

Koop Arponen

Koop Juho Alexander Arponen (born 20 April 1984 in Lappeenranta, Finland) is a Finnish singer and the winner of the fourth series of the Idols in 2008.

Suvorov military canals

The treaty divided Saimaa lake in two, with Sweden controlling the strait of Puumala and requiring toll payments from water traffic between Savonlinna and Lappeenranta and denying military traffic altogether.


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Aksel Airo

Afterwards he was trained as an officer in Lappeenranta artillery school and was sponsored to the French military academy, École militaire in St.-Cyr in 1920.

NMKY

Lappeenrannan NMKY, a basketball club based in the city of Lappeenranta, Finland

Sakara Records

Mokoma was formed in Lappeenranta in 1996, initially as a traditional rock band, and released two records on the EMI label.

Tauno

Tauno Tiusanen (born 1941), Finnish professor emeritus of University of Glasgow and Lappeenranta University of Technology

Teddy Lučić

He has a summer cottage in Lappeenranta, Finland, and is a fan of Lappeenranta-based first division football team Rakuunat and ice hockey team SaiPa.


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