Imatra

The Borough of Imatra is a municipality in eastern Finland, founded in 1948 around three industrial settlements near the Finnish-Russian border. In the course of the last 50 years, this amorphous group of settlements has grown into a modern industrial town dominated by Lake Saimaa[?], the River Vuoksi[?] and the border. It gained its municipal charter in 1971.

On the other side of the border, 7 kilometres away from the centre of Imatra, lies the town of Svetogorsk[?]. St Petersburg is situated 210 km to the southeast, Finland's capital Helsinki is 230 km away and Lappeenranta, the nearest Finnish town to Imatra in Finland, is 40km away.

• Total surface area: 191.6 square kilometres (Land area 155.3 km2, water area 36.3 km2
• Population: 31 421 (as at December 2001)

The main employers:

• Stora Enso[?] Oyj
• Municipality of Imatra
• Imatra Steel Oy Ab
• Border Guard

• Number of jobs: 12 401

(November 2001; figures from the Business Registration Agency)

• Number of municipal employees: 1 970 (as at December 2001)

(including permanent staff but excluding employees paid by the employment creation funds)

Mayor: Tauno Moilanen, M. Sc. (Eng), E-mail: tauno.moilanen@imatra.fi