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The town museum

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Reserve officer's school

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The yacht club's pavilion

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The Vehkalahti local history museum

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Tanelinkulma

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Pikkuympyräkatu

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Hamina Class Finnish Navy.

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Haminan kaupunki

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The town museum

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St John's church

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Reserve officer's school

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The old locomotive warehouse

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Central bastion of the fortress

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Aholaisenkulma ("The Aholainen's corner"), a historical restaurant and hotel, before it was demolised in autum 2008

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Finnish missile boat Pori (83), the fourth ship of Hamina class missile boats, in South Harbor of Helsinki.

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Rama class fast attack craft. 4 Hamina class fast attack crafts. The Finnish Navy (Finnish: Merivoimat, Swedish: Marine) is one of the branches of the Finnish defense Forces

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Finnish Jurmo-class landing craft advancing at Kustaanmiekka strait in Helsinki. In the late 1990s, the Finnish Navy was developing a new missile squadron called Laivue 2000 (English: Squadron 2000).

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Finnlines' flagship M/S Finnstar departing Helsinki, April 2007.

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Hamina

Name	Hamina
Official name
Settlement type	Town
Total type
Image shield	Vehkalahti.vaakuna.svg
Map caption	Location of Hamina in Finland
Dot x	\|dot_y =
Pushpin map
Pushpin label position
Province	Southern Finland
Region	Kymenlaakso
Subregion	Kotka–Hamina sub-region
Leader title	Town manager
Leader name	Hannu Muhonen
Established title	Charter
Established date	1653
Finnish official	1
Website	www.hamina.fi

Hamina (; , ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Kymenlaakso region. The town has a population of ( }})

As the important foreign trade town of Viipuri was surrendered to Russians in 1721, this town (newly renamed in honour of the King Frederick I of Sweden in 1723) was intended to replace it. The town, thus far a small domestic trade port with restricted trade, was granted extensive privileges including foreign trade. Finnish people soon shortened the name to Hamina. The rebuilding of the town took place in 1722–1724. The star-shaped fortress and the circular town plan are based on an Italian renaissance fortress concept from the 16th century.

In 1743 Hamina was surrendered to Russians, after the Russo–Swedish War, 1741–1743, and the town of Loviisa was the next Swedish candidate for an Eastern-Finnish trade centre. Hamina became a Russian frontier town, for which a fortress was desirable.

The Treaty of Fredrikshamn (1809), by which Sweden ceded Finland, along with parts of the provinces of Lappland and Västerbotten and the Åland Islands, was signed in Hamina. Thus Sweden was split and the eastern half, along with previously conquered territories including Hamina (Old Finland), was formed into the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous part of the Russian Empire.

Hamina Cadet School was founded in 1819 and it was in function until 1903. In 1920 the Reserve Officer School began in the same facilities.

Because the town was once founded next to the Vehkalahti Church, the municipal center had always been inside the town borders. Vehkalahti and Hamina were consolidated in 2003, and the old coat of arms was replaced with Vehkalahti's coat of arms.

Main sights

St. Mary's church. Originally medieval, it was damaged by fire in 1821 and renovated by Carl Ludvig Engel in 1828. It is the oldest building in Kymenlaakso.

St. John's Church, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel in 1843.

Orthodox Church of St Peter and St Paul (1837). The church is built on a site where two other churches (Ulrika Eleonora Church, built in 1732 and destroyed in 1742, and Elizabeth Church, built in 1750 and destroyed in 1821) were located. The belfry is built in 1862.

Notes

External links

Official website of Hamina

Guide map of Hamina

Map of Hamina

Hamina-Fredrikshamn at Northern Fortress

Category:Cities and towns in Finland Category:Populated coastal places in Finland Category:Municipalities of Kymenlaakso Region Category:Port cities and towns in Finland Category:Populated places established in 1653

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