Kuusankoski

Kuusankoski is a community of town of Kouvola, former business metropolis and municipality of Finland, located inside the vicinity of Kymenlaakso inside the province of Southern Finland. The population of Kuusankoski becomes 20,392 and the whole area became 129.5 km² of which 114 km² changed into land and 14.56 km² water. It is placed some 130 kilometers northeast of the Finnish capital Helsinki. Kuusankoski is normally recognized for paper manufacturing and three huge factory complexes.

It is on occasion nicknamed the Paper capital of Finland. Kuusankoski was founded in 1921 from the components of neighboring Iitti and Valkeala. It won the status of kauppala actually a place of trade in 1957 and have become a metropolis in 1973. The history of Kuusankoski during the last 1 and 3rd centuries has been closely linked to the establishment of the paper factories and their development. The status quo of the factories dates again to the 1870s and 1890s, whilst the rapids of the river Kymijoki were made to deliver strength to a waking industry.