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32-628: Step Forward was a Swedish hardcore punk band founded in 1989 in Umeå , Sweden by Dennis Lyxzén and his friends, Toft Stade, Jens Nordén and Henrik Jansson. Step Forward was one of the first hardcore punk bands in Sweden that held on to the American straight edge lifestyle. They soon released their first demo "I Am Me" and in October 1990, their second demo, "Does It Make a Difference". During their existence they played

64-520: A handful of gigs, mostly in the north of Sweden where they are from. Differences of opinion on the kind of songs they wanted to play finally reached a point of no return and Step Forward was dissolved. They played their last gig in December 1991. In 1996, a Step Forward CD entitled It Did Make a Difference was released on the hardcore label Desperate Fight Records . It included the demo-recordings mentioned above as well as two of their live-sets. Although

96-490: A more continental climate. Average January temperature is about −7 °C (19 °F), July is 16 °C (61 °F). Considering its proximity to a major water body and its latitude, summers are warmer than would be expected. The record high of 32.2 °C (90.0 °F) was recorded on 23 July 2014, during a very warm summer in Sweden . The record low of −38.2 °C (−36.8 °F) was recorded on 15 February 1978. The population of Umeå has grown consistently since

128-401: A new hardcore band called AC4 . Ume%C3%A5 Umeå ( UK : / ˈ uː m ə ɔː / OO -mə-aw , US : / ˈ uː m eɪ oʊ / OO -may-oh , Swedish: [ˈʉ̌ːmɛɔ] , locally [ˈʉ̌ːmɛ] ; Finnish : Uumaja ; Ume Sami : Ubmeje ; Southern Sami : Upmeje ; Northern Sami : Ubmi ) is a city in northeast Sweden . It is

160-460: A row (as of 2013 ). Other sports clubs include IFK Umeå , BK Ume-Trixa , Mariehem SK , Umeå FC , and Umedalens IF . In 2018 and 2020, Umeå was named Sweden's best sports city by SVT Sport. In 2011, a baseball and softball team, Umeå Baseboll & Softbol|klubb, was founded. The team has 2 former national team players as coaches and currently plays in Norra Regionserien. Umea is also

192-553: Is Umeå IK . The men's hockey team IF Björklöven was very successful in the 1980s but has been less successful in recent years. Björklöven are currently playing in the Swedish second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan while Umeå IK plays in the top Swedish women's football league Damallsvenskan . IBK Dalen and IKSU are among the major floorball teams in Sweden; both teams has been in the Swedish Championships finals two years in

224-619: Is another major site of research and education. Notable companies based in Umeå include: Athletes Musicians Rally Sweden In 1973 the rally was introduced to the World Rally Championship and started to get international attention; the Swedish Rally has been also traditionally the only rally held on snow . Like Rally Finland , this rally is known to be very difficult for non-Nordic drivers. The first driver to win

256-646: Is believed to be derived from the Old Norse word Úma which means roaring . The name of the town would therefore mean " The Roaring River ". The coast came to be permanently settled by Germanic peoples moving upwards on the Bothnian Bay by boat, hence the Germanic names of towns and villages on the Westrobothnian coast. Southern Westrobothnia (Umeå and Skellefteå) has been a permanent Germanic settlement since at least

288-448: Is given a copy of every new book printed in Sweden. The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences or Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet is a university in Sweden. Although its head office is located in Uppsala ( Ultuna ), the university has several campuses in different parts of Sweden, including Umeå. Unlike other government-run universities in Sweden, it is funded through the budget for

320-791: Is located along the Blue Highway , which is an international tourist route from Mo i Rana , Norway to Pudozh , Russia via Finland . The Opera of northern Sweden, the Norrland Opera , is based in the city, as is the English-language non-profit Umeå Theatre Company and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture . The annual Umeå Jazz Festival is one of the larger Scandinavian festivals for modern jazz. Well-known metal bands from Umeå include Cult of Luna , Gotham City, Hollow , Meshuggah , Mexicoma , Nocturnal Rites and Persuader . During

352-677: The Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation . The university hospital serves the entire region of northern Sweden. Key research fields of the University are life sciences (especially medical and cell and the molecular biology of plants), human-technology interaction, social welfare, ecology and gender perspectives. The Umeå University works collaboratively with companies such as ABB , Volvo , Skanska , Ericsson , and Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Umeå, with Umeå Plant Science Centre ,

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384-548: The Nordic Resistance Movement . The road infrastructure includes two European highways ( E4 and E12 ) which pass the city. The local bus system is centred at Vasaplan in the city centre, and has multiple routes travelling throughout the city. About 4 kilometres (2 miles) from the city centre is Umeå Airport . It is the 7th largest airport in Sweden by number of passengers, with 844,932 passengers in 2010. The Bothnia Line ( Botniabanan ) connects to Umeå from

416-483: The oil crisis , in 1990 because of the mild weather and in 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic . The rally was also not held in 2009 due to the WRC's round rotation system. Weather continues to be a concern, as rising global temperatures reduce the likelihood of appropriately snowy conditions every year. The 2005 event was one of the warmest ever, turning many stages into mud and destroying the special studded snow tires used by

448-492: The 14th century, but probably since the Viking ages or earlier. Umeå in its first form was a parish with a wooden church and trade post located in the section of town now known as Backen (or Kyrkbacken). Its location near the coast and on a river was probably one of the reasons that people chose to settle there. For the next couple of centuries, Umeå was a place consisting of scattered parishes, where merchandise originating with

480-551: The 1960s, when the university was built. In part because of the university, the town has attracted many residents from outside of Sweden, as well as students from other regions of Sweden. As of 2015, 10.4% of the population in the municipality of Umeå were foreign-born. The largest national origin group is from Finland , followed by Iraq , Iran and Somalia . In April 2017 the Jewish association in Umeå closed after receiving multiple threats from neo-Nazis , allegedly associated with

512-414: The 1990s, the influence of Umeå hardcore punk bands such as Final Exit , Step Forward , Refused , Abhinanda , Shield and Doughnuts and the local labels Desperate Fight Records and Busted Heads Records led to the growth of Umeå's hardcore scene. Independent record label Ny Våg is headquartered in Umeå, and have released records of Umeå artists such as AC4 , Masshysteri and Invasionen . In 2009

544-931: The 3 main branches of SLU , host around 40,000 enrolled students, which corresponds to around 30% of the total population. CRISPR gene editing was developed by researchers, headed by Emmanuelle Charpentier at Umeå University, being awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry . Umeå was the European Capital of Culture during 2014, along with Riga in Latvia . Umeå is certified by the EarthCheck Sustainable Destinations program. Consulates from ten countries can be found in Umeå (2021): Denmark (from 1848), Finland (from 1921), France (from 1989), Iceland (from 2002), Italy (from 2012), Latvia (1939–1940; again from 2014), Lithuania (from 2012), Norway (from 1963), and

576-454: The 3,000 inhabitants became homeless. In the restoration following the fire, almost 3,000 silver birch trees were planted along wide avenues to prevent future fires from spreading. For this reason Umeå is sometimes known as "Björkarnas Stad", the "City of Birches". The name of the Umeå ice-hockey team, Björklöven , means "The Birch Leaves". Umeå is situated on the inlet of the Gulf of Bothnia at

608-577: The Republic of Seychelles (from 2001). Umeå has been the home of Rally Sweden since 2022. People have lived in the Umeå ;river valley for at least three thousand years. The oldest rock carvings near Umeå, ten kilometers west of the city at Norrforsen , are from about 3,000 BCE. In some places, there are remains of settlements and cultivation from the Bronze Age to the 11th century. During that period

640-447: The Sami people was traded, and was the last inhabited place before the northern wilderness took over. However, no real city was built at the location selected by the king, and it lost its town privileges in the 1590s. In 1622, a city was again founded by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden . In 1638, it had about 40 houses. It suffered from Russian attacks in 1714 and in 1720 when it was burnt to

672-445: The Swedish Rally who wasn't from Sweden or Finland was Frenchman Sébastien Loeb in 2004 ; Frenchman Sébastien Ogier was the second non-Nordic winner (with wins in 2013, 2015 and 2016), with Belgian Thierry Neuville and Estonian Ott Tänak also recording wins in 2018 and 2019 respectively. Spaniard Carlos Sainz finished second four times and third two times. The rally has been cancelled three times; in 1974 due to

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704-448: The band no longer exists, Dennis Lyxzén created a new band, Refused , in 1992, which has revolutionized hardcore punk in Sweden and around the world. Jens Nordén has since played in somewhat notable bands as well, such as Regulations, The Vectors, E.T.A. - and along with Lyxzén, the last lineup of Refused side project Final Exit . In 2008 Nordén and Lyxzén teamed up with Karl Backman , The Vectors, and David Sandström, ex- Refused , to form

736-423: The climate was mild, and barley and wheat were grown in the area, while moose and beaver were hunted further inland. The first written mention of Umeå is from the 14th century. The northern parts of Sweden, including the counties of Västerbotten and Norrbotten , were mostly settled by nomadic Sami people before this time but not necessarily forming any permanent settlement in the city's exact location. The name

768-574: The ground during the Russian Pillage of 1719–21 . At the close of the Finnish War in 1809 the Russian army under Barclay de Tolly took Umeå and held it from June to August. In 1874 the town improved the plans for its structure after it became a government requirement. Umeå had already started making these changes when on 25 June 1888, a fire devastated the eastern parts of Umeå and at least 2,300 of

800-472: The host city of the FIA World Rally Championship's Rally Sweden. In 2021 it was announced that Rally Sweden would relocate to the northern Swedish city of Umeå after being held in the province of Värmland since its foundation. The primary reason for its relocation was that Umeå is considered a more snow safe region Umeå University has about 37,000 students and 4,200 staff. The establishment of

832-579: The mouth of the Ume River , in the south of Västerbotten. Umeå is about 600 km (373 mi) north of Stockholm and about 400 km (249 mi) south of the Arctic Circle. It is the largest city north of the Stockholm - Uppsala region, and is sometimes referred to as the regional centre of northern Sweden . The nearby community of Holmsund serves as its port. From here a ferry line connects it with

864-468: The neighbouring city of Vaasa (Swedish: Vasa ) in Finland . The near connections to Finland affects the population of the city – several Sweden Finns live in Umeå. Umeå has a subarctic climate ( Dfc ), bordering on a humid continental climate ( Dfb ) with short and fairly warm summers. Winters are lengthy and freezing but usually milder than in areas at the same latitude with

896-477: The seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County . Situated on the Ume River , Umeå is the largest locality in Norrland and the thirteenth largest in Sweden, with a wider municipal population of 132,235 inhabitants in the beginning of 2023. When Umeå University was established in 1965, growth accelerated, and the amount of housing has doubled in 30 years from 1980 to 2010. As of 2018 , Umeå

928-624: The south, it runs along the High Coast via Örnsköldsvik to Umeå. This railway was opened on 28 August 2010. The new railway line is 190 km (118 mi) long, containing 140 bridges and 25 kilometres (16 miles) of tunnels. It provides Umeå with a fast train connection to Stockholm ( 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours). A new railway station, Umeå East Station , was built in connection to Norrland's University Hospital and Umeå University . The Wasaline ferry takes four hours to arrive in Vaasa , Finland. Umeå

960-522: The town was designated European Capital of Culture for 2014, along with Riga . Umeå is the centre of television in northern Sweden; SVT Nord and TV4's northern region office are both based in the city. The main newspapers of the county of Västerbotten, Västerbottens-Kuriren and Västerbottens Folkblad are also based in Umeå. The background and setting for the video game Unravel are based on landscapes around Umeå. The city of Umeå currently hosts four major sports clubs. The women's football club

992-442: The university in the mid-1960s led to a population expansion from about 50,000 inhabitants to today's 121,032. The expansion continues, with about 1100 new inhabitants every year, and has made Umeå a modern, somewhat intellectual city to add to the traditional basis of heavy industry for cities along the coast of northern Sweden ( Norrland ). In 1951 the university's library was recognised as important for northern Sweden. The library

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1024-410: Was gaining around 1000 inhabitants per year and the municipality plans for having 200 000 inhabitants by 2050. The projection of municipality size in 2050 has, however, been questioned as an overestimation in an independent study. Umeå is a university town and centre of education, technical and medical research in northern Sweden. The two universities located in the city, Umeå University and one of

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