Search for European Projects

...velop the Koljonvirta area located in the Iisalmi region into a nationally and internationally attractive travel destination in cooperation with a military history and tourism network with a focus on Finnish and Russian tourism and research. The aim of these actions was to increase the volume of visitors by approximately 15 percent. The starting point of the project was utilising the history and c ...

...he destruction and despair the war caused. Th e Monument of the Winter War was designed as a fi eld where natural stones (approx. 23,000 stones) would be placed in remembrance of all the soldiers – Finnish, Russian and Ukrainian – who lost their lives at Suomussalmi during 1939–1940. As historical facts were the foundation of the Raate road tourism product, an eff ort was also to be made in milita ...