ABC-BOOKLET

AC Kajaani is a local football club. Future

winner of League of Champions.

Balls pub. The best place to drink beer and

play billiard.

Kajaani Castle.

Northemost castle in the world.

• Kajaani DiscGolfPark.

• Best place to improve your Frisbee skills.

Epiphany. Celebration of revelation of

God the Son as a human being in Jesus

Christ.

Fazer is one of the largest corporations in the Finnish food industry.

The company was originally founded by Karl Fazer in 1891, as a "French-Russian conditory" in central Helsinki. Today, it employs over ten thousand people in Finland as well as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Baltic countries, the United Kingdom and Russia.

A popular Christmas time drink throughout Finland

is the deep ruby red mulled wine glögg, or glögi in

Finnish. Modern glögg has its roots in the ancient

Swedish mulled wine punch called glödgat vin, which

literally means "glow wine".

Glögg

Hokki is a Finnish ice hockey team based at Kajaani.

Established in 1968. The full name of the club is

Kajaanin Hokki.

Deformation of the lake Oulujärvi is considered to begun already 2 billion

years ago. The shape of the bedrock and the lake are influenced

significantly by ice ages. Now days we are able to see the marks of the latest

ice age (terminated 10 000 years ago) at the lake shores. Ice masses melted

and liberated Kainuu region approximately 9400 years ago. After that Lake

Ancylus mesmerized area from Vuokatti mounds to the ashores of Sweden.

Ärjänsaari - The island of Ärjä

Before 1316, the summer solstice was called Ukon juhla, ("Ukko's

celebration") after the Finnish god Ukko. In Karelian tradition, many

bonfires were burned side by side, the biggest of which was called Ukko-

kokko (the "bonfire of Ukko"). After the celebrations were Christianized,

the holiday became known as juhannus after John the Baptist (Finnish:

Johannes Kastaja).

Johannes

Kajaani City Theatre is a theater in Kajaani, which is

also the province of Oulu Regional Theatre (since

1978).

Theatre was officially established in its current form

in 1969, Theatre Operations in Kajaani has had

already since 1906.

Kajaanin Kaupunginteatteri

LOST IN KAJAANI

Lost in Kajaani is adventure event which to organize every autumn at Kajaani.

Lost in Kajaani is biggest adventure event of Finland

In year 2014 there was 133 teams in three different series in event

MÄNTY / PINE

Pine ( Pinus Sylvestris ) is very common tree in Finlands forests. It is a

coniferous tree which grow naturally in forests without any planting. Pine live

200-300 years old and grows 15-30 feet high. For forest industry it is very

important tree and the hunger years they made Pettuflour from pine cambium

layer to make porridge.

NATURE

Finlands nature is very diverse where one can find swamps, lakes, forest with many hills and valleys. The further north you go the more varied landscape will be. Finlands nature provide us very much different kind of goods, example berries and trees for construction purposes. Most of Finland's surface area is uninhabited.

OLD TOWN HALL BUILDING

Kajaani's Raatihuone is in cultural history very valuable building. It is the oldest house which is preserved in the center. Building is Empirestyleand wood made, and construction completed 1831. Old town hall building has served as a agencies offices and travellinginfo place. Culture- and privatepeople can also rent the building for small scale events and feasts.

Kainuun Prikaati

Kainuun Prikaati = Kainuu brigade/garrison

Kainuu brigade is a Finnish Army unit located at Kajaani. Kainuu brigade is one of the biggest brigades in Finland.

Quality

At Kajaani University of Applied sciences you get high

quality education. Kamk.fi: ‘’The most proactive university

in Finland’’

R-Collection

R-Collection is a clothing brand from Kajaani. R-Collection has over 35 years’ experience and has six stores over Finland. The R-Collection store at Kajaaniis a factory outlet.

Swamp soccer

A form of soccer played in swamps. Invented in Kainuu

region. World swamp soccer championships are played every

summer at Ukkohalla.

Talkkuna

Talkkuna = Traditional Finnish finely milled flour mixture.

Kainuu region has its own type of talkkuna.

Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (Kajaanin ammattikorkeakoulu,

KAMK) is university of applied sciences located in the town of Kajaani.

There are approximately 2000 students and 230 members of staff at

KAMK.

The organizational structure of KAMK are based on five different areas

which are: Business and Innovations, Information Systems, Nursing and

Healthcare, Mechanical and Mining Engineering and Activity Tourism.

Vuolijoki Church is build in 1905-1906 and it was designed by Josef

Stenbäck. It’s only stonechurch in Kainuu. Vuolijoki is located 50 km

west of Kajaani.

Student Restaurant foX is located in TIETO2-building. The restaurant is

open from Monday to Friday 7.30-14.30.

Lunch costs 2,25/2,60€ for student and 6,90€ for outsider. Food is very healthy

and nutritious. We recommend foX for everyone!

Yleisradio as known as YLE is finnish national TV and radio channel. It

produces all kind of programs, for example sportsnews, regular news and

nature documents. YLE has become famous for popular sportreporters such

as Antero Mertaranta, Inka Helenius, Laura Ruohola and Tapio ”Tapsa”

Suominen.

YLE has own radio channel in Kajaani and it’s called Radio Yle Kainuu.

Zumba is a dance fitness program created by Colombian dancer and

choreographer Alberto "Beto" Perez during the 1990s.

Approximately 14 million people take weekly Zumba classes in over

140,000 locations across more than 185 countries.

We have H & H Dance House in Kajaani which provides Zumba lessons

for all kind of people. It’s located in town down Kajaani.

Åbo is Swedish name for the Finnish city Turku. Turku was Finland’s capital city

before Helsinki in 1808-1812.

Turku has become famous for Turku’s cathedral, river called Aurajoki which flows

throught the city and many popular ice hockey players for example Saku Koivu,

Mikko Koivu and Antero Niittymäki.

Turku is located on the Finnish west coast near to Helsinki.

Äiti is finnish name for mother and for the most of

the people mother is the most important person in the

world

Yötön yö (The midnight sun)

The midnight sun came when the sun remains visible at the

local midnight.

We can see midnight sun in Finland every year 21th June