Cities: Kouvola, Finland

I was thinking if I should post this to the railway stations thread or to this city thread and ended up that this picture is better suited for this thread...

39. One end of the waiting hall at Kouvola railway station
(And for those who unfortunately cannot understand Finnish, the text under the clock says "Welcome to Kouvola" in Finnish.)

42. Bridge(s) over Kymi in Kuusankoski, Kouvola


43. Kymintehdas


44. Kuusanniemi pulp and paper mills


45. More of the same factory complex with large piles of wood chips


46. Zebra crossing to nowhere? (The river is behind those trees...)


47. One of the old factory buildings in Kymintehdas


48. The chemical factory in these buildings still running


49. Another part of that factory


50. Kuusankoskitalo

56. As the sign says: Kuusaa bridge over river Kymi
(yes, #42 shows the same bridge(s)[1] from the other side of the river)

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[1] Technically there are two bridges: first there was one bridge, but as the traffic increased, another bridge was built next to the older one and now there are two lanes to each direction and sidewalks on both sides.

interesting update Heikki! amazing that you're not completely covered in snow yet. (my assumpion).

times have changed! for serious snow Spain is now the place to be.
I recall sailing to/from Scandinavia, many decades ago, or even through German Bight- in winter we always sailed through ice floes. quite wintery up there.

These are old pictures (and possibly I may have even posted these to some other thread in the past), but somehow I started to think about this particular place...

The former municipality of Elimäki had one interesting geographical feature, in the country of thousands of lakes, Elimäki didn't have any! Or there was Elimäenjärvi (Lake Elimäki), but the hardy farmers there thought that they preferred to have more farmland than a lake and thus they did drain it. However, at times mother nature still reminds us that these fields are former lakebed and thus when it floods the fields once again become a lake.

67. Elimäenjärvi during a spring flood


Assuming there is proper winter with snow, spring floods are almost certain when the snow melts, but occasionally autumn rains also bring so much water that the fields flood.

68. The flooded fields lure a large number of migrating birds


Actually that autumn 2017, at Elimäenjärvi and its vicinity significant portion of world's barnacle geese was resting there, bird watchers counted (or estimated) flocks up to around 300 000 birds.

69. These geese often stop there also when the fields are dry.