Lapua

Lapua is a metropolis and municipality of Finland. It is located subsequent to the Lapua River inside the area of South Ostrobothnia. The town has a population of 14,414 and covers a place of 751.Eighty two square kilometres of which thirteen.Sixty seven km2 is water. The population density is 19.Fifty six population in step with rectangular kilometre. The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Lapua is also domestic to a massive ammunition manufacturing facility, which started operations in 1927 because the State Cartridge Factory. This manufacturing facility changed into the primary provider of ammunition to the Finnish Army for the duration of the Winter War and World War II.

An explosion happened in a warehouse of this factory on 13 April 1976, resulting inside the deaths of 40 personnel, in particular ladies. Sixty kids misplaced a determine in the disaster. This is the worst unintentional disaster in Finland's cutting-edge history. After the explosion, the manufacturing facility changed into relocated five kilometres away from the metropolis centre and keeps manufacturing nowadays as part of the Nordic Ammunition Group as Nammo Lapua. The authentic web site of the manufacturing facility and the surviving homes at the moment are an arts centre, a library and a theater.