The Lapland Group ( Lapin Ryhmä ) was a formation of the Finnish Army during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union . The group was formed on 13 December 1939 from troops of the North Finland Group . The group was placed under the command of Major General Kurt Martti Wallenius and had its headquarters at Rovaniemi . The forces took part in the Battle of Salla and the Battle of Petsamo .
12-628: Osasto Roininen (Detachment Roininen) was located at Salla and consisted of the following forces: At the end of February 1940, the troops around Salla were replaced by the Swedish volunteers of the Stridsgruppen SFK Osasto Pennanen (Detachment Pennanen) which was located in Petsamo consisted of the following forces: This article about the military of Finland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
24-412: A subarctic climate ( Dfc ). Summer days are mild with about 1/3 of all days experiencing precipitation with nights tending to be cool. Winters are very long, cold, snowy, and extremely cloudy, lasting from the beginning of October through April, with mid-winter thaws being rare, and cold snaps relatively common. Spring and Autumn tend to be cool, not very variable, and short, lasting only a couple weeks to
36-659: A bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games to raise awareness of climate change and highlight the threat the climate crisis poses to Salla and its ecosystem, which is dependent on low temperatures for most of the year. Salla is the terminus of a freight-only railway line from Kemijärvi . In 2006, the Finnish Rail Administration announced proposals to close the line. The railway formerly extended beyond Salla into Russia, but has never carried international traffic. Neighbour municipalities are Kemijärvi , Kuusamo , Pelkosenniemi , Posio and Savukoski . Salla has
48-522: A few weeks in length. The low temperature record of Salla is -50 °C (-58 °F), which was recorded in Naruska in 1985. It was also the record of Finland until 1999. On 28 January 1999, the unofficial record of Finland, -54,3 °C (-65,7 °F), was recorded in Naruska. Salla was referenced in the song 66°50’N, 28°40’E by Finnish death-doom band Swallow the Sun on their 2015 triple album Songs From
60-456: A specific military unit is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Salla Salla ( Kuolajärvi until 1936) ( Inari Sami : Kyelijävri ) is a municipality of Finland , located in Lapland . The municipality has a population of 3,285 (31 October 2024) and covers an area of 5,873.08 square kilometres (2,267.61 sq mi) of which 142.73 km (55.11 sq mi)
72-685: Is water. The population density is 0.57 inhabitants per square kilometre (1.5/sq mi). The nearby settlement of Sallatunturi is home to the Salla Ski Resort. Salla is in the Eastern Lapland and as a border area was affected by the Second World War . Red Army troops invaded Finland at Salla during the Winter War but were stopped by the Finnish Army (see Battle of Salla ). Parts of
84-537: The 1990s, but had become less common by the turn of the 21st century. In turn, death-doom gave rise to the closely related genre of funeral doom as well as to the more melodic, gloomy and romantic gothic metal . The first signs of the death/doom genre originated in the mid-1980s when early progenitors like Dream Death began to mix traditional doom metal with the sounds of the nascent death metal scene. Early records in 1990s by such bands as Autopsy , Winter , Paradise Lost , My Dying Bride and Anathema combined
96-448: The North I, II and III . Death-doom Death-doom (also known as death-doom metal or doom-death ) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal . It combines the slow tempos and pessimistic or depressive mood of doom metal with the deep growling vocals and double kick drumming of death metal . The genre emerged in the late-1980s and gained a certain amount of popularity during
108-489: The decade as many of the scene progenitors abandoned their early sound to embrace a more accessible or palatable direction. However, the style persists in the form of funeral doom, a genre that crosses death-doom with funeral dirge music . It is played at a very slow tempo, and places an emphasis on evoking a sense of emptiness and despair. Typically, electric guitars are heavily distorted and dark ambient aspects such as keyboards or synthesizers are often used to create
120-461: The doom sound of mid-1980s Celtic Frost and Candlemass with the use of growling vocals, female vocals, keyboards and, in the case of My Dying Bride, violins. The influence of these bands has been acknowledged by the likes of gothic metal bands Within Temptation , Lacuna Coil , The Gathering , Celestial Season and Saturnus . The tag of death/doom seemed to become less popular towards the end of
132-569: The end of the war the German troops were pushed out of Lapland by Finnish troops in the Lapland War . The following villages were ceded to the Soviet Union: Alakurtti , Korja (Korya), Kuolajärvi ( Kuoloyarvi ), Lampela, Sallansuu, Yläkurtti (Yulyakurtti), Sovajärvi (Sovayarvi), Tuutijärvi (Tuutiyarvi) and Vuorijärvi (Vuoriyarvi). In January 2021, the mayor of Salla, Erkki Parkkinen, launched
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#1732869237876144-626: The municipality were ceded to the Soviet Union after the war. The ceded part is sometimes called "Old Salla" or Vanha Salla . During the Continuation War the old town of Salla was on the Soviet side of the border. The German XXXVI Corps attacked the Soviet positions in an operation code-named Polarfuchs . With the help of the Finnish 6th Division it managed to occupy all of the ceded territories. At
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