Kuttura is a small village in

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

, in the southwest corner of the municipality of

Inari Inari may refer to: Shinto * Inari Ōkami, a Shinto spirit ** Mount Inari in Japan, site of Fushimi Inari-taisha, the main Shinto shrine to Inari ** Inari shrine, dedicated to the Shinto god Inari * Inari-zushi, a type of sushi Places * Inari, ...

on the west bank of the

Ivalo River The Ivalo River (, , ) is a river that flows through upper Lapland (Finland), Lapland into Lake Inari. The Ivalo River starts from the Korsatunturi hugging the border between the communities of Inari, Finland, Inari and Enontekiö, where two s ...

next to the

Hammastunturi Wilderness Area The Hammastunturi Wilderness Area (; literally translated "tooth fell") is located in Lapland, Finland. It was established in 1991 like all the other 11 wilderness areas of Finland. It covers situated in a fell and forest area between the Urho K ...

. At the end of 2005, 21 people lived in the village.

History

Kuttura is named after Guttorm Magga, a Sámi man from

Enontekiö Enontekiö (; ; ; ; ) is a municipality in the Finnish part of Lapland with approximately inhabitants. It is situated in the outermost northwest of the country and occupies a large and very sparsely populated area of about between the Swedis ...

(''Eanodat'') who settled in the area with his son Nils in 1898. Other settlers came from Enontekiö as well. President

Urho Kekkonen Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also served as Prime Minister ...

visited the village while skiing from

Saariselkä Saariselkä (; ; ) is a fell area in Lapland, northern Finland. It is located in the Inari, Savukoski and Sodankylä municipalities. The highest point is high Mt Sokosti. The range is mostly two-billion-year-old granulite. The last ice age end ...

in 1956, at which time the villages raised the issue of having a road to the village. Kekkonen promised to take care of the matter, which he did, and the villagers received their road in 1959. It is said that the road follows the straight line that Kekkonen drew on a map. Kekkonen's visit also gave rise to a placename: Kekkosenoja (Kekkonen's ditch). Until 1994, when a bridge was built, the only way to cross the Ivalo River was by boat.

References

Villages in Inari, Finland {{Lapland-geo-stub