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Pajala is a locality and the seat of Pajala Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden, with 1,958 inhabitants in 2010.
Lars Levi Laestadius, the famous botanist, Lutheran minister, and founder of the revivalist movement Laestadianism, lived and worked in Pajala Municipality in the Mid-19th Century. He lived in Kengis, but in 1869 his house and grave and the whole church of Kengis were moved to Pajala.
The town was mistakenly bombed by Soviet airplanes during the Finnish/Soviet Winter War, in spring 1940. Seven Soviet planes dropped 134 bombs, a mix of explosive and firebombs, which destroyed six buildings, badly damaging telephone wires, and making the streets impossible to drive on due to 43 big craters. No human deaths were recorded, although two persons were slightly injured. Soviet officers later inspected the destruction and the Soviet Union paid damages to Sweden in 1940.
The events in Mikael Niemi's book "Populärmusik från Vittula" (Popular Music from Vittula) occur mainly in Pajala. Vittula, or more properly Vittulajänkkä, is a colloquial name (vulgar in its Finnish-Sami etymology, at least) for a certain garden suburb in Pajala.
Säv & San: Jani Nikula Sovitus: The Meänland/Mika Mustonen, Ville Vuoti Laulu: Adam Huuva Stemmat: Krista Tiitinen & Sami Bergman Kitara: Sami Bergman Rummut: Ville Vuoti Kitara: Mika Mustonen Banjo: Jani Nikula / Sami Bergman Basso: Jani Nikula Koskettimet: Kimmo Klemettinen Haitari: Arto Kiimalainen Äänitetty Greatsounds studiolla Kemissä.
Family visit to Santa's Village near Pajala, Sweden... Amazing day out. Well worth a visit if you get a chance to experience it. The weather was very mild that day for Pajala at around zero degrees Celsius. It was -37c there two weeks later. We flew on the shortest day of the year and it seemed really weird that as we got closer and crossed the Arctic circle, even though it was the middle of the day it started getting dark and the sun never rose above the horizon as we flew from the UK in the morning as we got further north. Certainly a bucket list item for me to experience that...
Fantastisk skogsegendom om 1 572 hektar med ett virkesförråd om ca 72 000 m³sk. 2 km strandsträcka mot Tärendö älv. Andel i 44 000 hektar allmänningsmark. Järn och grafitfyndighet inom området. Fina jaktmarker och fiske efter vildlax, havsöring och harr.
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Pajala is a locality and the seat of Pajala Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden, with 1,958 inhabitants in 2010.
Lars Levi Laestadius, the famous botanist, Lutheran minister, and founder of the revivalist movement Laestadianism, lived and worked in Pajala Municipality in the Mid-19th Century. He lived in Kengis, but in 1869 his house and grave and the whole church of Kengis were moved to Pajala.
The town was mistakenly bombed by Soviet airplanes during the Finnish/Soviet Winter War, in spring 1940. Seven Soviet planes dropped 134 bombs, a mix of explosive and firebombs, which destroyed six buildings, badly damaging telephone wires, and making the streets impossible to drive on due to 43 big craters. No human deaths were recorded, although two persons were slightly injured. Soviet officers later inspected the destruction and the Soviet Union paid damages to Sweden in 1940.
The events in Mikael Niemi's book "Populärmusik från Vittula" (Popular Music from Vittula) occur mainly in Pajala. Vittula, or more properly Vittulajänkkä, is a colloquial name (vulgar in its Finnish-Sami etymology, at least) for a certain garden suburb in Pajala.