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        • Planning street areas
        • Maintenance and sanitation of street areas
      • Parks and green spaces
        • City parks
        • Playgrounds and local sports facilities
        • Swimming beaches
        • Allotment gardens
      • Water transport and harbours
        • Boat berths
        • Guest boating
        • Freight ports
        • Passenger harbour
      • Markets and sales locations
    • Construction
      • Plots
        • Residential plots and commercial plots
      • Building permits
        • Electronic permit processing for building
        • Building permit and action permit
        • Permits
        • Supervision during the building period
      • Supervisory control of building
    • Environment and nature
      • Nature
        • Bedrock and soil
        • Plants
        • Animals
        • Surface waters
        • Nature conservation
        • Invasive species
        • Sääksilive
      • Forests
        • Monikäyttöiset metsät
      • Water areas
      • State of environment
        • Contamined soil
        • Water status
        • Neulalahden ja Savilahden riskinarviointi
      • Climate and energy
        • Climate change and its effects
      • Environmental permits and supervision
        • Environmental permits and notifications
        • Environmental supervision
      • Programs, projects and networks
        • The biodiversity programme
        • Resource wisdom and circular economy
        • Networks
      • Environmental awareness
        • Learn and participate
    • Food Safety and Environmental Health
      • Food Safety Control
        • Food establishments to be declared
        • Suspected Food Poisoning
        • Large Public Events
        • Own-check
      • Water quality
      • Healthy living
      • Insect Pests
      • Tobacco and Nicotine Containing Products
    • Animals
      • Pets
      • Livestock
      • Wild animals
      • Lost and found animals
  • Daycare and Schools
    • Daycare and Preschool education
      • Daycare in Kuopio
        • Municipal daycare
        • Private daycare
      • Daycare Map
      • Applying for daycare
      • Online services for daycare
      • Daycare fees
      • Preschool education
      • Child home care and Playgroup club activities
    • Basic education
      • Welcome to school
        • Starting school a year earlier or a year later
        • School enrolment
        • Education for immigrants
      • Studying at comprehensive school
        • School transport and travel
        • School meals
        • School accidents
        • School health care
        • Guidance counselling
        • Student welfare and educational support
        • Weighted-curriculum education
        • Psychologist and school social worker services
        • Finnish as a second language
        • Mother-tongue instruction
        • Language studies
      • Comprehensive Schools in the City of Kuopio
      • Afternoon Care Activities
        • Basic Education’s Afternoon Care
        • Holiday care for pupils with special needs or disabilities
    • General Upper Secondary Education
    • Pupil and student support services
      • Psychologist and school social worker services
        • Pre-primary education
        • Basic education
        • General and vocational upper secondary education
        • Kuraattorien yhteystiedot
        • Psykologien yhteystiedot
      • School health care
      • Developmental and Family Counselling Clinic
    • Other educational opportunities
      • Studying Finnish
  • Social and Health services
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      • Personal health and welfare
        • Health Care Services
          • School health care
          • Student Health Care
            • University of Applied Sciences Student Health Care
          • Health Care for Immigrants and Refugees
          • Paediatric Outpatient Clinic
        • Vaccinations
        • Screenings
      • Illness and accidents
        • Medical Care and Emergency Services
        • Sexually Transmitted Infections and Infectious Diseases
        • Information about coronavirus
          • Testing for the Coronavirus
          • The city of Kuopio’s Corona Help Line
          • The coronavirus situation in Kuopio
          • Covid vaccination
          • We can do it
        • Laboratory and x-ray
      • Rehabilitation and Follow-up Care
        • Assistive Device Services
        • Rehabilitation and Therapy
        • Medical care and follow-up visits
        • Discharge from hospital
      • Oral and Dental Care
        • Appointments and Guidance
        • Oral Health Checkups
        • Service Voucher for Oral and Dental Care
      • Mental health
        • Crisis support
      • Substance abuse treatment
      • Illness of a family member
        • Contact and visiting
        • Hospice care
      • Medication and prescriptions
      • Child Health and Maternity Clinics
        • Sexual Health Care Clinics
        • Developmental and Family Counselling Clinic
        • Health Clinic for All Ages
      • Patient rights
      • Patient fees
    • Social Services
      • Support for everyday life
        • Service councelling and guidance
          • Adult social work
          • Services for the elderly
            • Vanhusten palvelutarpeen arviointi
          • Immigrants
        • Activity Centres for elderly people
        • Family Support Services
          • Services at home
          • Perhekeskus
            • Yhteinenaika-palaute
          • Child Welfare
            • Child Welfare Notification
            • Perhesosiaalityö
            • Family Support Centres
      • In need of urgent help
        • Social Emergency Services
        • Homelessness
      • Domestic violence and disputes
        • Domestic violence
        • Kuopio shelter
      • Social assistance
      • Family affairs unit
      • Informal care support
      • Client rights
      • Active and healthy ageing
    • Medical Care and Emergency Services
  • Employment and Entrepreneurship
    • Vacancies
    • Employment service
      • Jobseekers
      • Navigator
      • Employers
    • Business Development Services
      • Business Kuopio
  • Leisure and Welfare
    • Community Houses
    • Culture
      • Museums
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Movies
      • Culture Services
        • Children and youth
        • The elderly and groups with special needs
      • Libraries
    • Kuopio Community College
    • Sports and outdoor recreation
      • Guided exercise
      • Sport facilities
        • Indoor sport facilities and sport halls
          • Kuopio Hall
          • Swimming Pools
          • Ice Arenas
          • Studentia
          • Civil defense shelters used for sports
          • Nilsiä Sport Hall
          • Maaninka Sport Hall
          • Gyms
          • Liikkis-bracelet
        • Outdoor recreation venues
          • Football fields
          • Baseball area
          • Väinölänniemi recreation venue
          • Puijo sport and recreation venue
          • Icehockey rinks and skating tracks
          • Exercise tracs and skiing trails
            • First snow track
          • Athletics facilities
          • Tennis courts
          • Frisbee golf
          • Swimming beaches
          • Playgrounds and local sports facilities
      • Nature trails
        • Nature trails
          • Tramp on Puijo
          • Wander in Vuorilampi
          • Observe in Halmejoki
          • Roam Katiskaniemi
          • Look at plants on Karho Island
          • Watch birds on Keskimmäinen
      • Outdoor recreation
        • Fishing
    • Space reservations
      • Sport facilities
      • Youth Centers
    • Voluntary work
    • Fur Hat season
    • Well-being market
  • City of Kuopio
    • Current
      • Events
        • Kulttuurifoorumi
        • Fairs
        • Minna Canth
    • Information about Kuopio
      • Kuopio City Hall
      • International operations
        • WHO Healthy City
        • Twin cities
      • Well-being
        • Recipes for Well-being
      • Kuopio Stories
      • Kuopio in other languages
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      • City Administration
      • Service Areas
      • Municipal Enterprises and Limited Companies
    • Get involved and make an impact
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        • Valtuustoaloitteet
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      • Rural popular assemblies
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        • Council for the Elderly
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      • Strategy
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      • Suojattu sähköposti
      • Open Data
    • City Customer Services
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      • Online map service
      • Guide maps
      • 3D-kaupunkimallinnus
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        • Tietoa sivustosta
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Christmas magic and atmosphere in Kuopio
18.11.2022

Christmas magic and atmosphere in Kuopio

Christmas waiting may begin! Here in Kuopio we start a holiday time with the Christmas Season`s opening at the Market Place on Saturday 19.11. Besides, there are a plenty of other Christmas events in November and December. Pick from our list the most wonderful events and get some Christmas spirit!

Christmas tree has appeared on the Market Place
10.11.2022

Christmas tree has appeared on the Market Place

Christmas tree at Kuopio Market Place is a sure mark of the coming Christmas. This year`s tree was found on Pihkainmäki hill and brought to the Market Place on November 9. Christmas tree will get its lights during the Christmas season opening on Saturday, November 19.

Welcome to get to know Savilahti - home for people and ideas!
10.11.2022

Welcome to get to know Savilahti - home for people and ideas!

Unique studying environment, world class research labs, libraries, art, joint living rooms, life, well-being, joy and inspiration! Savilahti Day invites everyone interested in this unique part of the city.

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  • Influenza vaccination appointments finished in Apaja
  • New Chief Conductor of the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra is Eugene Tzigane
  • Walk-in Covid vaccination service stops 31.10.2022
  • City of Kuopio presents to its residents rose root balls 2.11.
  • Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour in Kino Kuvakukko 2.11.2022
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