country_of_citizenship johannes lundson
Johannes Lundson ( 12 October 1867 , Leppävirta -- 11 August 1939 , Salo ) was a Finnish politician from Young Finnish Party . Lundson was speaker of the parliament in 1917 and was chairing the session on 6 December 1917 when the declaration of independence was approved . The Grand Duchy of ___MASK68___ (, , ) was the predecessor state of modern ___MASK68___ . It existed between 1809 and 1917 as an autonomous part of the Russian Empire and was ruled by the Russian Emperor as Grand Duke . The Young Finnish Party or Constitutional - Fennoman Party ( or ) was a liberal and nationalist political party in the Grand Duchy of ___MASK68___ . It began as an upper - class reformist movement during the 1870s and formed as a political party in 1894 . ___MASK68___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK68___ , is a sovereign state in Northern Europe . A peninsula with the Gulf of ___MASK68___ to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west , the country has land borders with Sweden to the northwest , Norway to the north , and Russia to the east . Estonia is south of the country across the Gulf of ___MASK68___ . ___MASK68___ is a Nordic country situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia , which also includes Scandinavia . ___MASK68___ ' s population is 5 . 5 million ( 2014 ), staying roughly on the same level over the past two decades . The majority of the population is concentrated in the southern region . In terms of area , it is the eighth largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union . The Finnish Party was a Fennoman conservative political party in the autonomous Grand Duchy of ___MASK68___ and independent ___MASK68___ . Born out of ___MASK68___ ' s language strife in the 1860s , the party sought to improve the position of the Finnish language in Finnish society . Johan Vilhelm Snellman , Yrjö Sakari Yrjö - Koskinen , and Johan Richard Danielson - Kalmari were its ideological leaders . The party ' s chief organ was the Suometar newspaper , later Uusi Suometar , and its members were sometimes called Suometarians (" suomettarelaiset "). Northern Savonia is a region in eastern ___MASK68___ . Kuopio is the largest city in the region . Leppävirta is a municipality of ___MASK68___ . It is located in the province of Eastern ___MASK68___ and is part of the Northern Savonia region . The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water . The population density is