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VV Announces 2023 Headline Tour

North America Tickets on Sale Starting Friday, April 15 at 10AM Local at LiveNation.com

Today,  VV  (also known as  Ville Valo ) announced his 2023 headline tour of Europe, the UK and North America. The North American leg of the tour, produced by Live Nation, kicks off on April 1st, 2023 in Philadelphia, PA at Theatre of Living Arts, making stops across the U.S. in Boston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and more before wrapping up in New York, NY on May 8th, 2023 at Irving Plaza.

The news comes following the announcement of the release of his new single, “ Loveletting ,” which comes out  April 8 th  under the VV banner. “Loveletting” is taken from VV’s forthcoming debut album,  Neon Noir , which is scheduled for release early 2023.

TICKETS:  Tickets to shows across Europe will go on sale Monday, April 11th at 10am CET. Tickets for the North American leg will go on sale Friday, April 15th at 10am local at  livenation.com .

JAN – MAY 2023 ‘NEON NOIR TOUR’

01.13.2023 – Tavastia –  Helsinki (FI)

02.14.2023 –  Proxima – Warsaw (PL)

02.15.2023 – Kwadrat – Krakow (PL)

02.16.2023 – Lucerna Music Bar – Prague (CZ)

02.17.2023 – Huxley’s – Berlin (DE)

02.18.2023 – Fabrik – Hamburg (DE)

02.02.2023 – Paradiso – Amsterdam (NL)

02.21.2023 – Batschkapp – Frankfurt (DE)

02.22.2023 – Komplex – Zurich (CH)

02.24.2023 – Razzmatazz – Barcelona (ES)

02.25.2023 – La Riviera – Madrid (ES)

02.26.2023 – Cineteatro Capitolio – Lisbon (PT)

02.27.2023 – Hard Club – Porto (PT)

03.02.2023 – Alcatraz – Milan (IT)

03.03.2023 – Backstage Werk – Munich (DE)

03.04.2023 – Barba Negra – Budapest (HU)

03.05.2023 – Arena – Vienna (AT)

03.07.2023 – Rockhal – Esch-sur-Alzette (LU)

03.08.2023 – LMH – Cologne (DE)

03.09.2023 – Le Trabendo – Paris (FR)

UNITED KINGDOM

03.10.2023 – O2 Academy – Bristol (GB)

03.11.2023 – Rock City – Nottingham (GB)

03.13.2023 – Garage – Glasgow (GB)

03.14.2023 – O2 Ritz – Manchester (GB)

03.15.2023 – O2 Forum – Kentish Town, London (GB)

NORTH AMERICA

04.01.2023 – Theatre of the Living Arts – Philadelphia PA (USA)

04.02.2023 – Big Night Live – Boston MA (USA)

04.04.2023 – Roxian Theater – Pittsburgh PA (USA)

04.05.2023 – House of Blues – Cleveland OH (USA)

04.06.2023 – St. Andrews Hall – Detroit MI (USA)

04.08.2023 – Bogarts – Cincinnati OH (USA)

04.09.2023 – House of Blues – Chicago IL (USA)

04.11.2023 – Varsity Theater – Minneapolis MN (USA)

04.13.2023 – Summit – Denver CO (USA)

04.14.2023 – The Depot – Salt Lake City UT (USA)

04.16.2023 – Ace of Spades – Sacramento CA (USA)

04.17.2023 – The Fillmore – San Francisco CA (USA)

04.18.2023 – The Belasco – Los Angeles CA (USA)

04.21.2023 – House of Blues – Las Vegas NV (USA)

04.22.2023 – House of Blues – San Diego CA (USA)

04.23.2023 – The Van Buren – Phoenix AZ (USA)

04.25.2023 – House of Blues – Dallas TX (USA)

04.26.2023 – Aztec Theater – San Antonio TX (USA)

04.27.2023 – House of Blues – Houston TX (USA)

04.28.2023 – House of Blues – New Orleans LA (USA)

04.30.2023 – House of Blues – Orlando FL (USA)

05.01.2023 – Revolution – Ft. Lauderdale FL (USA)

05.03.2023 – Buckhead Theatre – Atlanta GA (USA)

05.04.2023 – Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville TN (USA)

05.05.2023 – Underground – Charlotte NC (USA)

05.07.2023 – The Fillmore – Silver Spring MD (USA)

05.08.2023 – Irving Plaza – New York NY (USA)

In the annals of 21st century alternative rock history, there are few artists who cast a longer or more peculiar shadow than Finnish Love Metal pioneer Ville Valo. After all, his band HIM were easily among the most iconic and idiosyncratic groups of the millennium. Zealously revered, gleefully reviled but impossible to ignore, their music left an indelible mark on a worldwide legion of fans. The scarlet letters stood for His Infernal Majesty. Their founder stood for something delightedly out of step with the status quo. “We only hoped to temporarily redirect hard rock’s blood flow from the nether regions towards the heart”, reminisces Ville Valo, the singer, songwriter and primus motor of HIM. Judging by the monolithic presence of the Heartagram in any account of music this side of the millennium it’s apparent that he succeeded.

Inspired by everyone from Poe to Bukowski and tinged by a penchant for perfumed Sabbathian gloom, Valo’s creative lovechild would produce eight era-defining studio releases and over ten million record sales, not forgetting a Grammy nomination, countless magazine covers, critical acclaim, and the veneration of a generation. Thus, it came as no surprise that the news of a farewell tour in 2017 was greeted with shock and disbelief among devotees and endless speculation as to what or who was to take up the velvet mantle…

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“This is a bridge between HIM and the future”: the resurrection of Ville Valo

Exclusive: Ville Valo opens up about his new VV project, his upcoming solo debut album and the chances of a HIM reunion

It’s been a little under five years since Ville Valo laid goth metal icons HIM to rest, just over two since we last heard from him with the release of his debut VV EP. Now the crown prince of Love Metal is back with the promise of a new album, Neon Noir , and a string-flourishing, sheep-seducing new single called Loveletting . Hammer caught up with Ville to get the full story behind his solo career

Here we are then, Ville Valo finally back with new music! How are you feeling?

I’m shocked, after all the work I’ve done for the past two and a half years. When the shit hit the pan with the pandemic I just locked myself in my home studio and recorded the album, so I haven’t seen the sunlight too much. Which I guess is fine, as it fits the genre…

So is that where you’ve been this decade so far, locked away recording?

Yeah it’s been a weird couple of years, for everyone really. In the lowest moments over the past few years that’s been some comfort, knowing everybody is experiencing the same things. The main philosophical question I’ve been asking is, is there a reason to engage with the world right now? I think it’s a good idea to get away from it all, for a while. I needed to take time out to create something that felt unique to me and out in the open. I have a sofa in the studio so whenever I get super depressed I’d have the Churchill power nap. It was very centred around music and not a whole lot else. It was an interesting session, but it’ll take me a few years to fully unpack – I was basically doing 14 hours a day for two years.

There’s a great line in the VV bio about howling with the black dog, rather than barking at each other – do you find the record helped you work some of that out?

Music always needs to be cathartic. A lot of people have a lot of passion in their hobbies, things outside their work. But work is my passion, its my lifeline and keeps me afloat. It’s been really depressing; I’m a sensitive fella and I really thought by late 2020 everybody seemed down, particularly if you worked in music because there were no shows so all the musicians, the lighting technicians, road crews had no idea if they’d ever get to work again.

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I’m not sure I’d say that made the album better, but it definitely gave me a kick up the butt to get out of that funk one way or another. You have to choose between the noose and the guitar, and for me the guitar has always been the better choice – especially in the long term.

The upcoming VV debut is your first solo album – did you play everything yourself?

I did everything on it, except for the mixing and mastering. It was mixed by Tim Palmer, who has done a lot of stuff in every imaginable genre, from Pearl Jam to Ozzy Osbourne to Sepultura to U2 and Tears For Fears. It was mastered at Sterling Sound in Nashville, but everything else I performed and engineered by myself.

It was quite the journey, but I could literally hear the fruit of my labour every day and could focus on the details as much as I wanted to. I didn’t have to think about the scheduling for different people, dealing with diaper changing sessions. It’s very undiluted, though whether that’s a good or bad thing is up for debate!

When did you properly decide you wanted to jump back in with a solo career?

I still don’t know what this ‘career’ is. To me, it feels really surreal because I thought the whole thing has to start with a song, with the music I like to eventually put the album together. Now I’m trying to recruit a band and decide on what songs we’ll play, try to figure out the production for how it will look and sound. It’s still just ideas, right until we actually do it. I never made a decision like ‘I’m going to go solo’, but during the pandemic there was no way to put together a band so that fuelled the idea of working alone. Literally solo.

It seemed like you weren’t massively interested in music for a while after HIM split. Did you ever think about not coming back to music?

I wasn’t too interested in the HIM thing, but for pretty obvious reasons everybody was also pretty worn out by the end of that tour. It was also interesting not to know how we’d feel spiritually about the change – it’s easy to make the announcement ‘oh, HIM are splitting up’ but I was worried because I’d been playing with those guys since I was 14 years old. I wasn’t sure if it would feel like losing a limb.

I talked to Mige [Mikko Paananen, HIM bassist] after the last gig and we both just felt so relieved that it worked out so great, on so many levels. I needed to take a little breather. I did an album with this local band that do pop music in Finnish [Agents] and we did an album in Finland and toured it in 2019, that was what I needed to clean myself after the process because I was singing to a very different audience. Trying not to curse as much! I’ve been trying to figure it out by doing various little things, but at the same time the new stuff definitely does sound like HIM. But I did write most of the songs, so… I’m to blame for that.

It's a continuous journey from HIM for me. A lot of people when they move on to solo projects want to distance themselves from the past, burn bridges and start their solo career. It’s different for me. VV is me building a bridge between HIM and the future. That’s what Neon Noir is. I wrote organically, because I don’t think you should decide before you’ve even picked up the guitar how something should sound. It’s not good for any creative work.

What or who was the inspiration behind the single Loveletting?

It was probably the black dog, depression. We’re all aware of that Murphy’s Law where things go pear shaped all the time and with the pandemic and personal stuff, not knowing where to go next, as well as not knowing where we belong, it created this feeling that went beyond depression, like a cosmic feeling of not belonging. That’s the stuff I try to put into the music and Loveletting can be read in many ways, it’s a double-edged sword. It’s very dream-like – you get those feverish dreams, where you’re not sure what is real and what isn’t. It’s not a new concept, but we Finns are pretty slow.

That video: how much fun was it seducing a sheep?

Ha ha ha! It was great. We thought about more traditional animals like gothic owls or bats. The director suggested a black sheep and I loved it – it was an opportunity to do something a bit weird, but also very endearing. Usually music videos aren’t fun to shoot, so trying to make them different always makes it special. So to me, that will always be ‘the sheep video’. The black sheep is the universal symbol of the outsider, for the people who don’t belong. I love animals too – I’d never met a black sheep in real life. I like the video because once I’d seen it, I was like ‘wait, what the fuck?’ which is the best reaction you can get to a video these days.

How representative of the sound of the album is Loveletting ?

Loveletting is one of the more mellow songs. I’ve always been shit with picking singles – I’m always wrong, so I let the label choose that and everybody was smiling when they heard it the first time, so they suggested it. I’m hoping the next one will be a lot more rock’n’roll, harder hitting. The album is pretty varied – like Love Metal by HIM, it gets Sabbathy at times, but it goes more proggy with more soundscapes in between. Loveletting has a bit of Anathema in it – it reminds me of their stuff, very heartfelt, emotional and melancholic. Pretty and dirty at the same time.

What floats your boat musically these days?

“Not too much. Deafheaven’s latest album was pretty weird. Infinite Granite doesn’t have much metal in, but its great because its very moody. Also Anna Calvi. I got into the British band Wild Beasts, but only after they’d split up. It doesn’t show in what I do musically, but I like a lot of music that goes left of centre. There’s a few indie bands I’ve been listening to, and Twin Tribes from the States. They’re a duo who basically rip off everything that’s been done in the past, but they do it beautifully. They’ve got some great stuff and I’ve been forcing myself to get back into the goth scene because I think the future is there.”

There seems to be a decent goth revival right now with bands like Unto Others, Grave Pleasures and Tribulation all creating waves

“Absolutely. It’s not all just Sisters Of Mercy style goth, either. There are bands pulling from the post-punk stuff from before it actually went goth. I think it’s a good time for all that stuff. I’ve been interested in black metal again, but it’s a messy business. It’s like classical music – it’s so hard to find the really good albums because there are so many.”

How much of the solo album is recorded?

It’s totally recorded now. One of the reasons its done so early is because of delays with the vinyl plants – it takes eight months to get vinyl out these days, but I don’t really know why. Plus I like to be early and have long deadlines as I’ve got to get a band together. I’m sure it’ll be fine and dandy, but there’ll be a load of rehearsals to be done and I’m one of those people who needs to rehearse shit tonnes. It’s going to be a weird year, but I’m determined not to stain the memory of the HIM songs.

Are all the songs on the album brand new or are there any HIM holdovers?

Some of the ideas, like the verses from Loveletting were actually from 2014/2015. I always have bits and bobs that take a while to find their place. It’s gonna be interesting when we go to the rehearsal studio and start working on how these new songs and HIM songs will fit in the set – that’s a really important part of working out this identity.

Can you give us some song titles, or lyrical themes?

Not yet. I know the details of the songs obviously, but there’s a whole plan for it all. I’ll do the strumming and humming. I can give you one title – its called Echolocate Your Love . I think it’s a fantastic title and the idea is that there are times when you need to close your eyes to see better.

Have you had any big bucks offers to reunite HIM yet? And would he do it if there was enough money on the table?

That’s a multi-tentacled question! When we decided to call it quits with HIM, we never said it wouldn’t mean we’d never jam together again. It’s all about timing and the timing isn’t right, right now. We had a good run and were wise enough to end it before we got to each other’s throats. It worked out good in retrospect, but for a lot of bands it doesn’t so I don’t want to stress that element out too much. It’s a fine balance and I’d rather not mess it up because it left a sweet taste in everyone’s mouth.

But then again, there’s the part B of the question! I don’t really care too much about the monetary side of it. If there was a good reason , I’d be much more interested – whether that’s a festival, a tour or whatever else. I’ve been in touch with Mige a lot, but not so much the others. He’s been a spiritual producer for the album, coming over to my house and hearing the mixes, not necessarily offering advice but nodding his head approvingly. We’re still close and maybe one day we can share a stage again.

Last year marked 30 years since the formation of HIM – how do you feel about the band’s legacy these days?

I’ve been surprised about the youth getting into all the early 00s metal bands. It’s cool seeing Heartagram t-shirts alongside Type O Negative and Paradise Lost shirts – we’re in good company. Nothing’s new under the sun, so everything comes back at some point. Hopefully it happens while I’m on tour! But when you’re in a band you don’t worry about that, you’re lost in the moment thinking about where the next slice of pizza is coming from, or where the closest toilet is.

I don’t think I’ve had enough time to sit back and reflect on what went wrong and what went right. As human beings, we’re all going to make mistakes and with VV I’m hoping to make a bunch of new mistakes. Hopefully not repeating the previous ones!

Do you think there is more love in metal now than when you first started out?

Not my kind! Back in the days of yore, its weird thinking of bands like Linkin Park and Evanescence who felt way too poppy. They were very mainstream and you’d think ‘I’m not sure this is the real deal’, but they’re like Burzum compared to some of the shit these days. There’s a lot you get now with loads of electronica and the songs are super edited, with a dash of guitars. I’m not sure what they want to achieve with that, like you want people to headbang every now and again. I’m not happy with where things are going like that, which is why I’ve gravitated more towards weirder bands.

But then, that’s mistaking love for commerce. If there’s any heartfelt sentiment going on in the realm of hard rock, that’s always a positive. It doesn’t have to be romantic love, just something you’re truly passionate about.

VV’s debut Neon Noir is due early 2023

Ville Valo VV tour dates 2023

Jan 13: Helsinki Tavastia, Finland Feb 14: Warsaw Proxima, Poland Feb 15: Krakow Kwadrat, Poland Feb 16: Prague Lucerna Music Bar, Czech Republic Feb 17: Berlin Huxley's, Germany Feb 18: Hamburg Fabrik, Germany Feb 20: Amsterdam Paradiso, Netherlands Feb 21: Frankfurt Batschkapp, Germany Feb 22: Zurich Komplex, Switzerland Feb 24: Barcelona Razzmatazz, Spain Feb 25: Madrid La Riviera, Spain Feb 26: Lisbon Cineteatro Capitolio, Portugal Feb 27: Porto Hard Club, Portugal Mar 02: Milan Alcatraz, Italy Mar 03: Munich Backstage Werk, Germany Mar 04: Budapest Barba Negra, Hungary Mar 05: Vienna Arena, Austria Mar 07: Esch-sur-Alzette Rockhal, Luxemburg Mar 08: Cologne LMH, Germany Mar 09: Paris Le Trabendo, France Mar 10: Bristol O2 Academy, UK Mar 11: Nottingham Rock City, UK Mar 13: Glasgow Garage, UK Mar 14: Manchester O2 Ritz, UK Mar 15: London O2 Forum Kentish Town, UK Apr 01: Philadelphia Theatre of the Living Arts, PA Apr 02: Boston Big Night Live, MA Apr 04: Pittsburgh Roxian Theater, PA Apr 05: Cleveland House of Blues, OH Apr 06: Detroit St. Andrews Hall, MI Apr 08: Cincinnati Bogarts, OH Apr 09: Chicago House of Blues, IL Apr 11: Minneapolis Varsity Theater, MN Apr 13: Denver Summit Music Hall, CO Apr 14: Salt Lake City The Depot, UT Apr 16: Sacramento Ace of Spades, CA Apr 17: San Francisco The Fillmore, CA Apr 18: Los Angeles Belasco, CA Apr 21: Las Vegas House of Blues, NV Apr 22: San Diego House of Blues, CA Apr 23: Phoenix Van Buren, AZ Apr 25: Dallas House of Blues, TX Apr 26: San Antonio Aztec Theater, TX Apr 27: Houston House of Blues, TX Apr 28: New Orleans House of Blues, LA Apr 30: Orlando House of Blues, FL May 01: Ft. Lauderdale Revolution. FL May 03: Atlanta Buckhead Theatre, GA May 04: Nashville Brooklyn Bowl, TN May 05: Charlotte Underground, NC May 07: Silver Spring The Fillmore, MD May 08: New York Irving Plaza, NY 

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VILLE VALO Announce First Details For ‘Neon Noir’ Solo Album — Pre-Orders Now Available!

Finnish Love Metal pioneer, Ville Valo (VV) of HIM , will release his debut solo album, Neon Noir , on January 13 th via Heartagram Records , distributed by UMG/ Spinefarm.

“Neon Noir is a sonic step-by-step guide on how to survive, and perhaps even enjoy, the realm of VV with its abundance of things that go bump in the night,” says Valo. “It’s a teary mascara marathon between Robert Smith and Ozzy, with a dash of hope.”

‘NEON NOIR’ TRACKLIST: 01: Echolocate Your Love 02: Run Away From the Sun 03: Neon Noir 04: Loveletting 05: The Foreverlost 06: Baby Lacrimarium 07: Salute the Sanguine 08: In Trenodia 09: Heartful of Ghosts 10: Saturnine Saturnalia 11: Zener Solitaire 12: Vertigo Eyes

Album & merch pre-orders for Neon Noir are now live, HERE .

Head to Kerrang.com to read their cover feature, in which Ville discusses the album in-depth.

VV’s headline tour – taking place next year across Europe, the UK and North America – has already sold-out across a number of cities.

JAN – MAY 2023 ‘NEON NOIR TOUR’  

13.01 – Tavastia, Helsinki (sold out)

14.01 – Tavastia, Helsinki (sold out)

15.01 – Tavastia, Helsinki (sold out)

14.01 – Stodola, Warsaw

15.02 – Studio, Krakow

16.02 – LMB, Prague (sold out)

17.02 – Huxley’s Berlin (sold out)

18.02 – Fabrik, Hamburg (sold out)

20.02 – Paradiso, Amsterdam

21.02 – Batschkapp, Frankfurt (sold out)

22.02 – Komplex, Zurich

24.02 – Razzmatazz, Barcelona

25.02 – La Riviera, Madrid

26.02 – Cineteatro Capitolio, Lisbon

27.02 – Hard Club, Porto

02.03 – Alcatraz, Milan

03.03 – Backstage Werk, Munich (sold out)

04.03 – Barba Negra, Budapest

05.03 – Arena, Vienna (sold out)

07.03 – Rockhal, Esch-Sur-Alzette

08.03 – LMH, Cologne (sold out)

09.03 – Le Trabendo, Paris

UNITED KINGDOM

10.03 – O2 Academy, Bristol

11.03 – Rock City, Nottingham

13.03 – Garage, Glasgow (sold out)

14.03 – O2 Ritz, Manchester

15.03 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London

NORTH AMERICA

3/31 – Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia

4/1 – Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia (sold out)

4/2 – Big Night Live, Boston

4/4 – Roxian Theater, Pittsburgh

4/5 – House of Blues, Cleveland

4/6 – St. Andrew’s Hall, Detroit

4/8 – Bogart’s, Cincinnati

4/9 – House of Blues, Chicago (sold out)

4/10 – House of Blues, Chicago

4/11 – Varsity Theater, Minneapolis

4/13 – The Summit Music Hall, Denver

4/14 – The Depot, Salt Lake City

4/16 – Ace of Spaces, Sacramento

4/17 – The Fillmore, San Francisco

4/18 – The Belasco, Los Angeles (sold out)

4/19 – The Belasco, Los Angeles

4/21 – House of Blues, Las Vegas

4/22 – House of Blues, San Diego

4/23 – The Van Buren, Phoenix

4/25 – House of Blues, Dallas

4/26 – Aztec Theatre, San Antonio

4/27 – House of Blues, Houston

4/28 – House of Blues, New Orleans

4/30 – House of Blues, Orlando

5/1 – Revolution Live, Ft. Lauderdale

5/3 – Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta

5/4 – Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville

5.05 – The Underground, Charlotte

5/7 – The Fillmore, Silver Spring

5/8 – Irving Plaza, New York

5/9 – Irving Plaza, New York

ABOUT VV / Ville Valo:

In the annals of 21st-century alternative rock history, there are few artists who cast a longer or more peculiar shadow than Finnish Love Metal pioneer Ville Valo. After all, his band HIM were easily among the most iconic and idiosyncratic groups of the millenium. Zealously revered, gleefully reviled but impossible to ignore, their music left an indelible mark on a worldwide legion of fans. The scarlet letters stood for His Infernal Majesty. Their founder stood for something delightedly out of step with the status quo.

“We only hoped to temporarily redirect hard rock’s blood flow from the nether regions towards the heart”, reminisces Ville Valo, the singer, songwriter and primus motor of HIM. Judging by the monolithic presence of the Heartagram in any account of music this side of the millennium it’s apparent that he succeeded.

Inspired by everyone from Poe to Bukowski and tinged by a penchant for perfumed Sabbathian gloom, Valo’s creative lovechild would produce eight era-defining studio releases and over ten million record sales, not forgetting a Grammy nomination, countless magazine covers, critical acclaim, and the veneration of a generation. Thus it came as no surprise that the news of a farewell tour in 2017 was greeted with shock and disbelief among devotees and endless speculation as to what or who was to take up the velvet mantle.

“As fun as the funeral rites for HIM were, it took me more than a few moons to lick my wounds in the shadow of the Heartagram and come up with an excuse to strum and hum again. Eventually I decided to put a leash on my beloved black dog and we started howling together instead of barking at each other. That’s how VV was born”.

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Ville Valo: “It’s a continuation of what I’ve done in the past and what might happen next”

Half a decade on from the end of gothic rock heroes HIM, frontman Ville Valo is gearing up to release his debut solo album. And in Neon Noir, not only did the Finnish icon find a reason to keep going during the pandemic, it also sees Ville still very much enjoying his dreamy journey into the dark side…

Come New Year’s Eve, it will be five years since Ville Valo stepped offstage with HIM for the final time. Over the two decades and change of the band’s life, the Finnish Love Metal icons had made a tradition of playing a show in Helsinki on the last night of the year. The fixture at the city’s Tavastia venue on December 31, 2017, came at the end of the band’s Bang & Whimper Tour. They’d said goodbye to London, to Paris, to Berlin, Amsterdam and Milan and many other places that had fallen in love with them and made them icons of a type of rock music that spoke more with its heart and its lips than with its fists. As they bid their hometown farewell, and Ville woke up on the first day of 2018, the singer realised something: “It didn’t feel like anything was different.”

Pondering this today from his home in Helsinki – sadly no longer the imposing tower in which he once resided – he still sounds like he expected to feel more grief, more sadness, more something than what he actually did.

“I thought that, since we played together as a band for such a long time, and HIM was and still is such a big part of who I am, that it would feel more like losing a limb or that there would be some sort of, at least psychological, but also maybe a physical change,” he says. “But there was nothing.”

“I thought it would feel more like losing a limb…”

The shows were good, he smiles. He was glad that the band “went out with music”. They’re still friends. The show at Tavastia, he adds, “wasn’t emotional”, but it was “the right way to do it”, even if "maybe we should have ended it a little earlier." Either way, it was clearly time to wrap up. And so, from million-selling global goth metal icon, Ville Valo effectively became an unemployed civilian overnight.

Half a decade on, and nine years since HIM’s last album, 2013’s Tears On Tape swansong, the dark light is beginning to shine again. In March 2020, having spent some post-HIM time doing “Hank Marvin type stuff from my parents’ record collection” with Finnish-language retro troupe Agents, the singer surprise-dropped a three-track EP under the banner VV, entitled Gothica Fennica Vol. 1 . Now, having spent two years during COVID locked away in his own studio, playing every instrument himself – “Like the Dark Prince meets Prince ” – Ville Valo is making a full return with debut VV album, Neon Noir .

It’s all very Ville. The songs are all cut from a similarly Sabbath -goes-post-punk-with-a-poetry-book cloth as one might be used to, touching on “Kyuss’ Welcome To Sky Valley, but also a lot of post-punk stuff like Siouxsie And The Banshees and Cocteau Twins”. They have stylishly gothic names like Run Away From The Sun, Loveletting and Baby Lacrimarium. When this is put to him, he laughs his charming, self-effacing chuckle and nods, “Yeah, that last one’s the most typically me title anyone could write, isn’t it?”

Having come to the end of the road with HIM, given himself and the world “a bit of a breather, some distance”, apparently you can take the goth out of the metal band…

“Doing this album, and doing it the way I did it, gave me a chance to reflect, in a way, or to have a different perspective of who I am or what I want to do and what I have done and what can be done better, and so forth,” he says, before bursting out laughing again. “Which then ended up being basically doing exactly the same thing I had before.”

Then Ville laughs some more. “So, nothing’s new under the sun.”

God, it’s good to have him back.

Neon Noir was put together during COVID. Though Ville says “it’s not the wisest thing to sit down and really start to think about what you’re doing, it’s better to just go with the flow,” he knew this thing was to be a true solo project – him alone.

“I always wanted to work on music, but I really didn’t want to put together a new band,” he explains. “It just felt like something I honestly don’t want to do, because 25-plus years [in HIM] was a lot. And there’s a lot of love for that band. It just didn’t feel right.”

Instead, he worked alone. He insists that “I’m a very limited fellow as a musician,” but as HIM’s principle songwriter, he’s also got a track record of being very good at it. But where other members of the band would previously have added their own flair to the music, here Ville had to look at his craft in a different way.

“We knew each other so very well as musicians that I kind of knew how Mige would play his bass and Linde [Lindström] would play his guitar and so forth. So I kind of wrote most of the songs with them in mind. This time around, since they weren’t around, I only had myself in mind.

“What I found exhilarating was the fact that I was able to continue to work if I found a melody I enjoyed,” he adds. “I was able to continue working on that particular melody straight from that point, until I fell asleep. There were no schedules, there were no rehearsals, there was no nothing. I just started working on the entire thing, sort of building the puzzle as I went.”

Admitting that he “quite enjoys solitude”, the album also provided Ville with an escape during the pandemic. With no deadline, and the boss of his own label that would be putting out the finished product, it was unlike any record of the dozen or so to which he had previously put his name.

“It enabled me to be in a creative space, or a meditative space, for more or less two years,” he says. “I wasn’t thinking about anything else besides the album from the morning until I went to sleep. God bless my girlfriend for her patience. It’s hard to put into words but it was very intense, and it was like a journey into yourself. It makes you relearn what you appreciate, and relearn the little subtleties in music that make the world go around. That make my world go around.”

The darkness of the album is of the romantic stripe with which Ville long ago made his bones, echoing professionally miserable British doom bands like Paradise Lost , Cathedral and My Dying Bride . He jokingly calls it, “an evolutionary tale of what happens when you lock a Finnish musician in a home studio for the entire duration of the pandemic with no sunlight in sight”. But even by Finnish standards of gloom, where the sun is down for almost half the year and the long, freezing winters do their best to kill you, the pandemic still managed to cast its shadow.

“I wouldn’t call it ‘suicidal’, but most of the stuff was written during the pandemic, and there weren’t many rays of sun hitting me,” Ville shares. “Everybody was in the mental gutter. Times were tough. This album was the kind of like the lifebuoy for me. It gave me a reason to wake up every morning and work on something else and try to shut the world outside. When I was working on the music, maybe it was selfish to a certain extent, but also it was a matter of survival.”

“It was a matter of survival”

In putting this into words Ville, a man who’s written more than one song about the dark side, discovered that his quill was far from dry. Basically about love and darkness? Yes, mainly. But that’s his whole bit.

“It seems that mankind needs a bit of a breather from all this shit, myself included. So I tried to put all that frustration onto paper,” he says. “And if it’s love and darkness, and all sorts of things like that, that’s probably because it’s my vocabulary. Hopefully, the words have been rearranged in a fresh order this time around. But me trying to do something completely different, just because, that doesn’t make any sense to me at all.”

Talking to him today, not much has changed about Ville Valo at all since we last encountered him. Or, indeed, when first we did. Now aged 45, he refers to himself as “an old dog”, but his pretzel-dry sense of humour, louche demeanour, boyish laugh and warm charm are as present as ever. He still talks with a cheeky, curiously upper-class English twang, occasionally sounding like a Finnish Terry Thomas, and though he admits to not having listened to his heroes Black Sabbath in a while (currently he’s on a goth tip, giving the thumbs up to mysterious, face-painted Brit duo Zetra ), Ville still references them half a dozen times over the course of conversation.

To call him humble isn’t quite right. Modest would be a better word. As a man now able to look back from a distance at being the face of a band as big and important as HIM – 2003’s Love Metal breakthrough sold over a million, while the constant patronage of Heartagram-tattooed Jackass bloke and superfan of the band Bam Margera put them on TV screens across America in the 2000s – this is perhaps not unexpected. But even in the eye of the storm, Ville was always like this, even when he was a Kerrang! cover fixture and being hailed as the sex symbol rock’n’roll had been missing for so long.

“If people come up and call me an icon or something, I start to blush,” he smiles. “I feel uncomfortable, and I switch bars. When I’m in a situation like that, I do enjoy compliments. But you know, as everybody does, but I’m not too social of a person. I feel awkward in situations like that. I think at the time I just drank my way through it all. That wasn’t good way of handling that – go to the pub, go to [sadly shuttered London drinking den] The Crobar. That saved me and destroyed me at the same time.

“But I’m glad for both, you know, I was burning my candle at both ends,” he continues. “I don’t think I would have done anything different. It would have been maybe good to have somebody tell us, ‘Maybe you should relax for a wee bit.’ And by relaxing, I actually mean relaxing, not to go to the pub and not to write more songs. Just to recharge your batteries, because every rock band burns themselves out at one point or another. But I'm not complaining. And it’s great that I did all those mistakes – I don’t have to make them now.”

‘Now’ for Ville Valo means a new album, and a new tour. Next year, he’ll return to London to perform for the first time since 2017. He’s nervous, but more than that, he’s excited.

“The size of the butterflies in my stomach are gargantuan, something that I never knew existed,” he smiles. “I have, not necessarily high hopes, but I think next year will be a colourful one. It’ll be filled with new experiences.”

And for those wondering about setlists already, “It’s going to be half-and-half new stuff and HIM stuff. It’s not as if we’ll just play Buried Alive By Love as an encore and that’s it.

“It’s a continuation of what I’ve done in the past and, you know, what might happen next,” he says. “Basically I’m just doing exactly what all the rock’n’rollers are doing. The only thing I’m not doing these days is going topless – you know, by that I mean older gentleman behaving like they’re 20 and cool.”

After so long, if not quite in the wilderness, certainly not as visible as he once was, it’s heartening that Ville Valo is the same as ever. Neon Noir does have familiarities, but there’s a personality of its own upon which everything else is built. Most importantly, this is just who he is and what he does. Sex and darkness again, is it? Well, what else is there?

“I’m not very good at planning or doing Plan Bs,” he says. “[After HIM] I wasn’t really thinking about an alternative, because I don’t like studying too much. Not a great student – my patience is nil. Maybe I’d be a roadie or something – I like carrying stuff around. Maybe I’d be doing gardening, that’s kind of the same thing.”

“Maybe I’d be a roadie!”

But for now, gardening’s loss is still very much rock’s gain. Although even after all these years, you probably still have to convince Ville that he’s not a blagger and that he’s meant to be here.

“I still consider all the HIM guys to be fanboys in essence,” he finishes. “We started because we loved Sabbath and KISS and Maiden and whatnot. And we still do. We felt like visitors in the in their land, in their realm.

“I kind of still do think that,” he laughs. “I’m stuck in limbo between heaven and hell.”

Neon Noir is due out on January 13 via Heartagram Records, distributed by UMG/ Spinefarm – pre-order the album here. Ville Valo will tour the UK in March 2023.

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Valo's debut solo LP Neon Noir is out in early 2023

HIM frontman Ville Valo has announced his debut solo album, Neon Noir , set for an early 2023 release under the VV moniker. The Finnish artist also announced a 2023 US tour and unveiled a new song, “Loveletting.”

As the self-described pioneer of “love metal,” Valo has penned more than a few romantic songs. “Loveletting” takes the pedal off the metal but still features Valo’s typical heartfelt lyrics and emotion.

“As fun as the funeral rites for HIM were, it took me more than a few moons to lick my wounds in the shadow of the Heartagram and come up with an excuse to strum and hum again,” Valo said in a press release. “Eventually, I decided to put a leash on my beloved black dog and we started howling together instead of barking at each other. That’s how ‘Loveletting’ was born.”

The release of the new single sets in motion the album cycle for Neon Noir . Ostensibly coinciding with the LP’s release, VV will head across the states next spring. The itinerary kicks off April 1st, 2023, in Philadelphia and winds across most major US markets before wrapping up on May 8th in New York City.

Pre-sales for the 2023 US tour begin today (April 8th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster .

Valo added: “Artistically speaking, the main difference between HIM and VV is the extra line in the Heartagram, but what an exquisite line it is! It’s the Mamas and the Papas dressed up as Metallica on their way to a Halloween bash at the Studio 54, and now who wouldn’t want to witness that?”

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Watch the video for “Loveletting” and see VV’s full list of 2023 US tour dates below. Get tickets here .

VV 2023 US Tour Dates: 04/01 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts 04/02 – Boston, MA @ Big Night Live 04/04 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre 04/05 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues 04/06 – Detroit, MI @ St Andrews Hall 04/08 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts 04/09 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues 04/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater 04/13 – Denver, CO @ Summit 04/14 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot 04/16 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades 04/17 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore 04/18 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco 04/21 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues 04/22 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues 04/23 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren 04/25 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues 04/26 – San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theater 04/27 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues 04/28 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues 04/30 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues 05/01 – Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution 05/03 – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre 05/04 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl 05/05 – Charlotte, NC @ Underground 05/07 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore 05/08 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza

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Finnish Love Metal pioneer,  Ville Valo  ( VV ) of  HIM , has released his new single ‘ The Foreverlost ‘. The track is the third glimpse into his upcoming debut solo album  Neon Noir , due for release on 13th January 2023 via  Heartagram Records , distributed by  UMG / Spinefarm

Ville Valo  comments: “ The Foreverlost  is yet another loud love song depicting the burlesque butoh between two world-weary souls. All my  Carmina Buranas  and  could’ve should’ve would’ves  rolled into a neat little Gordian knot of the gothic variety.”

Listen to ‘ The Foreverlost ’  HERE.

NEON NOIR TRACKLIST:

01: Echolocate Your Love 02: Run Away From the Sun 03: Neon Noir 04: Loveletting 05: The Foreverlost 06: Baby Lacrimarium 07: Salute the Sanguine 08: In Trenodia 09: Heartful of Ghosts 10: Saturnine Saturnalia 11: Zener Solitaire 12: Vertigo Eyes

Pre-orders for  Neon Noir  are now live,  HERE.

Head to  Kerrang.com  to read their cover feature, in which  Ville  discusses the album making process in-depth.

VV ’s headline tour – taking place next year across  Europe , the  UK  and  North America  – has already sold-out across a number of cities. Get your tickets now to avoid disappointment. Tickets available  HERE.

 JAN – MAY 2023 ‘NEON NOIR TOUR’

13.01 – Tavastia, Helsinki (sold out) 14.01 – Tavastia, Helsinki (sold out) 15.01 – Tavastia, Helsinki (sold out) 14.01 – Stodola, Warsaw (sold out) 15.02 – Studio, Krakow 16.02 – LMB, Prague (sold out) 17.02 – Huxley’s Berlin (sold out) 18.02 – Fabrik, Hamburg (sold out) 20.02 – Paradiso, Amsterdam 21.02 – Batschkapp, Frankfurt (sold out) 22.02 – Komplex, Zurich 24.02 – Razzmatazz, Barcelona 25.02 – La Riviera, Madrid 26.02 – Cineteatro Capitolio, Lisbon 27.02 – Hard Club, Porto 02.03 – Alcatraz, Milan 03.03 – Backstage Werk, Munich (sold out) 04.03 – Barba Negra, Budapest 05.03 – Arena, Vienna (sold out) 07.03 – Rockhal, Esch-Sur-Alzette 08.03 – LMH, Cologne (sold out) 09.03 – Le Trabendo, Paris

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10.03 – O2 Academy, Bristol 11.03 – Rock City, Nottingham (sold out) 13.03 – Garage, Glasgow (sold out) 14.03 – O2 Ritz, Manchester (sold out) 15.03 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London

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31.03 – Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia 01.04 – Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia (sold out) 02.04 – Big Night Live, Boston 04.04 – Roxian Theater, Pittsburgh 05.04 – House of Blues, Cleveland 06.04 – St. Andrew’s Hall, Detroit 08.04 – Bogart’s, Cincinnati 09.04 – House of Blues, Chicago (sold out) 10.04 – House of Blues, Chicago 11.04 – Varsity Theater, Minneapolis 13.04 – The Summit Music Hall, Denver 14.04 – The Depot, Salt Lake City 16.04 – Ace of Spaces, Sacramento 17.04 – The Fillmore, San Francisco 18.04 – The Belasco, Los Angeles (sold out) 19.04 – The Belasco, Los Angeles 21.04 – House of Blues, Las Vegas 22.04 – House of Blues, San Diego 23.04 – The Van Buren, Phoenix 25.04 – House of Blues, Dallas 26.04 – Aztec Theatre, San Antonio 17.04 – House of Blues, Houston 28.04 – House of Blues, New Orleans 30.04 – House of Blues, Orlando 01.05 – Revolution Live, Ft. Lauderdale 03.05 – Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta 04.05 – Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville 05.05 – The Underground, Charlotte 07.05 – The Fillmore, Silver Spring 08.05 – Irving Plaza, New York 09.05 – Irving Plaza, New York

In the annals of 21st century alternative rock history there are few artists who cast a longer or more peculiar shadow than Finnish Love Metal pioneer  Ville Valo . After all, his band  HIM  were easily among the most iconic and idiosyncratic groups of the millenium. Zealously revered, gleefully reviled but impossible to ignore, their music left an indelible mark on a worldwide legion of fans. The scarlet letters stood for  His Infernal Majesty . Their founder stood for something delightedly out of step with the status quo.

“We only hoped to temporarily redirect hard rock’s blood flow from the nether regions towards the heart”,  reminisces  Ville Valo , the singer, songwriter and primus motor of  HIM . Judging by the monolithic presence of the Heartagram in any account of music this side of the millennium it’s apparent that he succeeded.

Inspired by everyone from  Poe  to  Bukowski  and tinged by a penchant for perfumed Sabbathian gloom,  Valo ’s creative lovechild would produce eight era-defining studio releases and over ten million record sales, not forgetting a  Grammy  nomination, countless magazine covers, critical acclaim, and the veneration of a generation. Thus it came as no surprise that the news of a farewell tour in 2017 was greeted with shock and disbelief among devotees and endless speculation as to what or who was to take up the velvet mantle.

“As fun as the funeral rites for HIM were, it took me more than a few moons to lick my wounds in the shadow of the Heartagram and come up with an excuse to strum and hum again. Eventually I decided to put a leash on my beloved black dog and we started howling together instead of barking at each other. That’s how the album Neon Noir was born”.

The answer came earlier this year with the melodious exsanguination of first single  ‘Loveletting ’, followed by the elegiac goth-optimism of ‘ Echolocate Your Love’ , which  Valo  described as, ‘a teary mascara marathon between  Robert Smith  and  Ozzy , with a dash of hope.’ Now, with the glow of  Neon Noir  fast approaching comes the driving, nocturnal radiance of ‘ The Foreverlost’ , an uptempo paean to doomed romance and a confident affirmation of  Valo ’s peerless ability to imbue timeless songwriting and balladry with a whiff of roses and brimstone.

“’The Foreverlost’ is yet another loud love song depicting the burlesque butoh between two world-weary souls,”  he says.  “All my Carmina Buranas and could’ve would’ve rolled into a neat little Gordian knot of the gothic variety.”

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HIM mastermind Ville Valo ( VV ) will release his debut solo album, "Neon Noir" , on January 13 via Heartagram Records , distributed by UMG / Spinefarm .

" 'Neon Noir' is a sonic step-by-step guide on how to survive, and perhaps even enjoy, the realm of VV with its abundance of things that go bump in the night," says Valo . "It's a teary mascara marathon between Robert Smith and Ozzy , with a dash of hope."

Regarding the lyrical inspiration for the album, Ville told Kerrang! magazine: "I wouldn't call it 'suicidal', but most of the stuff was written during the pandemic, and there weren't many rays of sun hitting me. Everybody was in the mental gutter. Times were tough. This album was the kind of like the lifebuoy for me. It gave me a reason to wake up every morning and work on something else and try to shut the world outside. When I was working on the music, maybe it was selfish to a certain extent, but also it was a matter of survival."

He added: "It seems that mankind needs a bit of a breather from all this shit, myself included. So I tried to put all that frustration onto paper. And if it's love and darkness, and all sorts of things like that, that's probably because it's my vocabulary. Hopefully, the words have been rearranged in a fresh order this time around. But me trying to do something completely different, just because, that doesn't make any sense to me at all."

"Neon Noir" track listing:

01. Echolocate Your Love 02. Run Away From The Sun 03. Neon Noir 04. Loveletting 05. The Foreverlost 06. Baby Lacrimarium 07. Salute The Sanguine 08. In Trenodia 09. Heartful Of Ghosts 10. Saturnine Saturnalia 11. Zener Solitaire 12. Vertigo Eyes

Earlier this month, Ville released "Echolocate Your Love" , the second single from "Neon Noir" . "Echolocate Your Love" came five months after the arrival of "Loveletting" , which marked Ville 's first new music in over two years, following the release of the three-track "Gothica Fennica Vol. 1" EP, also released under the VV banner, in March 2020.

Like "Echolocate Your Love" and "Loveletting" , "Gothica Fennica Vol. 1" bore a strong musical resemblance to HIM and featured the tracks "Salute The Sanguine" , "Run Away From The Sun" and "Saturnine Saturnalia" .

Back in April, Ville told Metal Hammer that "Loveletting" was one of the more mellow songs on "Neon Noir" . Ville said: "I've always been shit with picking singles — I'm always wrong, so I let the label choose that and everybody was smiling when they heard it the first time, so they suggested it. I'm hoping the next one will be a lot more rock 'n' roll, harder hitting."

Regarding the musical direction of "Neon Noir" , Ville told Metal Hammer : "The new stuff definitely does sound like HIM . But I did write most of the songs, so… I'm to blame for that. It's a continuous journey from HIM for me. A lot of people when they move on to solo projects want to distance themselves from the past, burn bridges and start their solo career. It's different for me. VV is me building a bridge between HIM and the future. That's what 'Neon Noir' is."

Ville spoke to Spotify about why it has taken him so long to complete "Neon Noir" . "Since the pandemic hit, I started working on the album," he explained. "I actually learned how to record — I learned how to record drums and bass and guitar because I wasn't able to get any musicians; I had to do it solo — literally solo. So I'm really sorry but it did take me two and a half years to get the album done. 'Loveletting' is the first single. It's kind of what I normally do — it's a loud love song; it's a very sad and melancholy wistful one, but sort of maybe light at the end of the tunnel which is hopefully not the oncoming train.

"So there's not much new under the sun of VV , but I love it. [ Laughs ]"

VV 's headline tour dates will take place next year across Europe and North America. Naturally starting in Helsinki, Finland, the 2023 extensive run reaches the U.K. in March before heading to America come April.

HIM completed a farewell tour in 2017, closing the final chapter on the band's 26-year career. At the time, Ville explained to Kerrang! magazine why the band decided to call it a day. "We were tired of the same shit," he said. "When you've done it for a long time, at some point it doesn't taste good anymore. We started working on some stuff, it didn't sound good enough, and we didn't get the teenage buzz you're supposed get."

He also discussed the future of his artistic and musical endeavors.

"I'll be figuring out the emotions I'll be going through after the HIM period is done," he said. "That's how I experience life. I experience it through music, I'll pick up the guitar and start writing and I'm sure some of the emotions that come out of this wild ride will come through. My life is not done yet. The HIM part is done, as it is now, the chapter is closed, but the book is still unfinished…"

Formed in 1991 by Valo , guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström and bassist Mikko "Migé" Paananen , HIM offered the world a new take on the metal genre, which became known as "love metal" (also the title of their fourth album).

HIM in 2015 parted ways with its longtime drummer, Mika Kristian Karppinen (a.k.a. Gas Lipstick ),and replaced him with Jukka "Kosmo" Kröger (formerly of HERRA YLPPÖ & IHMISET ).

Three years ago, Valo teamed up with guitar legend Esa Pulliainen to record an album based on songs by the late, legendary Finnish singer Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki . The self-titled album by VILLE VALO & AGENTS was released in February 2019 and was followed by a short tour.

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The Meaning Behind The Song: Loveletting by VV (Ville Valo)

Introduction:

Music has the power to evoke emotions, heal deep wounds, and express the unspoken. Ville Valo, the renowned Finnish musician known for his work with the band HIM, released his first solo album Neon Noir in 2022. The lead single from this album, “Loveletting”, captivates listeners with its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies. In this article, we will explore the meaning behind the song and its personal significance to me.

Meaning of the Song:

As I delve into the lyrics of “Loveletting”, I see a narrative of heartbreak, longing, and the paradoxical nature of love. The song opens with Ville Valo expressing an enduring sorrow that tears apart the potential of what could have been between two people. The pre-chorus reveals love as a road walked alone, an endless night continuously dreamt of. It portrays love as both a source of hope and a solitary journey.

The chorus emphasizes the disconnect between two hearts, out of sync and crying. It speaks of the pain of dreaming about love but being unable to fully experience it. The lyrics evoke a sense of yearning and vulnerability, as the desire for unity and connection remains unfulfilled.

In the second verse, Valo describes being trapped in a loop, chasing shadows of all that has been lost and will never come to fruition. The pre-chorus once again emphasizes the solitary nature of love, as Valo sings about love being the song he sings alone and the darkness he keeps dreaming of.

The bridge repeats the phrase “heartbeats out of sync with each other,” emphasizing the theme of disconnection and the emotional distance between two individuals. It amplifies the sense of longing and highlight the complexity of human relationships.

The final chorus adds a touch of beauty to the song, as Valo describes the subject as being in the light of the setting sun. It suggests a glimmer of hope and the possibility of finding solace in accepting the emotional distance that exists between two people.

Personal Experience:

Listening to “Loveletting” takes me on a deeply introspective journey, bringing back memories of past relationships and unfulfilled desires. The melancholic melodies and poignant lyrics resonate with moments of heartache and longing that I have experienced in my own life.

The song speaks to the universal experience of unrequited love, where the connection between two people is hindered by circumstances or emotional barriers. It reminds me of instances where I yearned for a deeper connection but felt the weight of emotional distance.

Despite the emotional heaviness the song carries, it also offers a sense of solace and catharsis. It serves as a reminder that the pain of unrequited love is a part of the human experience, and that it is possible to find beauty in embracing the longing and accepting the circumstances we cannot change.

The haunting melodies of “Loveletting” serve as a comforting presence, allowing me to process and navigate through my own emotions. It reminds me that music has the power to heal, offering a sense of connection, understanding, and even closure.

Conclusion:

Ville Valo’s “Loveletting” captures the essence of heartbreak, longing, and the complexities of love. The song’s poetic lyrics and melancholic melodies evoke a range of emotions and provide solace to those who have experienced emotional distance in personal relationships.

Listening to “Loveletting” and dissecting its meaning has allowed me to delve into my own experiences and find solace in the shared emotions of others. It serves as a touching reminder that music can be a powerful companion through life’s trials and tribulations.

So, the next time you find yourself caught in the web of unrequited love or longing, let the melodies of “Loveletting” remind you that you are not alone and that there is beauty in embracing the complexities of human connection.

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Written by Lanette Mayes

Modified & Updated: 02 Mar 2024

Reviewed by Jessica Corbett

Elektrostal is a vibrant city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia. With a rich history, stunning architecture, and a thriving community, Elektrostal is a city that has much to offer. Whether you are a history buff, nature enthusiast, or simply curious about different cultures, Elektrostal is sure to captivate you.

This article will provide you with 40 fascinating facts about Elektrostal, giving you a better understanding of why this city is worth exploring. From its origins as an industrial hub to its modern-day charm, we will delve into the various aspects that make Elektrostal a unique and must-visit destination.

So, join us as we uncover the hidden treasures of Elektrostal and discover what makes this city a true gem in the heart of Russia.

Key Takeaways:

• Elektrostal, known as the “Motor City of Russia,” is a vibrant and growing city with a rich industrial history, offering diverse cultural experiences and a strong commitment to environmental sustainability.
• With its convenient location near Moscow, Elektrostal provides a picturesque landscape, vibrant nightlife, and a range of recreational activities, making it an ideal destination for residents and visitors alike.

Known as the “Motor City of Russia.”

Elektrostal, a city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia, earned the nickname “Motor City” due to its significant involvement in the automotive industry.

Home to the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Elektrostal is renowned for its metallurgical plant, which has been producing high-quality steel and alloys since its establishment in 1916.

Boasts a rich industrial heritage.

Elektrostal has a long history of industrial development, contributing to the growth and progress of the region.

Founded in 1916.

The city of Elektrostal was founded in 1916 as a result of the construction of the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Located approximately 50 kilometers east of Moscow.

Elektrostal is situated in close proximity to the Russian capital, making it easily accessible for both residents and visitors.

Known for its vibrant cultural scene.

Elektrostal is home to several cultural institutions, including museums, theaters, and art galleries that showcase the city’s rich artistic heritage.

A popular destination for nature lovers.

Surrounded by picturesque landscapes and forests, Elektrostal offers ample opportunities for outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, and birdwatching.

Hosts the annual Elektrostal City Day celebrations.

Every year, Elektrostal organizes festive events and activities to celebrate its founding, bringing together residents and visitors in a spirit of unity and joy.

Has a population of approximately 160,000 people.

Elektrostal is home to a diverse and vibrant community of around 160,000 residents, contributing to its dynamic atmosphere.

Boasts excellent education facilities.

The city is known for its well-established educational institutions, providing quality education to students of all ages.

A center for scientific research and innovation.

Elektrostal serves as an important hub for scientific research, particularly in the fields of metallurgy, materials science, and engineering.

Surrounded by picturesque lakes.

The city is blessed with numerous beautiful lakes, offering scenic views and recreational opportunities for locals and visitors alike.

Well-connected transportation system.

Elektrostal benefits from an efficient transportation network, including highways, railways, and public transportation options, ensuring convenient travel within and beyond the city.

Famous for its traditional Russian cuisine.

Food enthusiasts can indulge in authentic Russian dishes at numerous restaurants and cafes scattered throughout Elektrostal.

Home to notable architectural landmarks.

Elektrostal boasts impressive architecture, including the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the Elektrostal Palace of Culture.

Offers a wide range of recreational facilities.

Residents and visitors can enjoy various recreational activities, such as sports complexes, swimming pools, and fitness centers, enhancing the overall quality of life.

Provides a high standard of healthcare.

Elektrostal is equipped with modern medical facilities, ensuring residents have access to quality healthcare services.

Home to the Elektrostal History Museum.

The Elektrostal History Museum showcases the city’s fascinating past through exhibitions and displays.

A hub for sports enthusiasts.

Elektrostal is passionate about sports, with numerous stadiums, arenas, and sports clubs offering opportunities for athletes and spectators.

Celebrates diverse cultural festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal hosts a variety of cultural festivals, celebrating different ethnicities, traditions, and art forms.

Electric power played a significant role in its early development.

Elektrostal owes its name and initial growth to the establishment of electric power stations and the utilization of electricity in the industrial sector.

Boasts a thriving economy.

The city’s strong industrial base, coupled with its strategic location near Moscow, has contributed to Elektrostal’s prosperous economic status.

Houses the Elektrostal Drama Theater.

The Elektrostal Drama Theater is a cultural centerpiece, attracting theater enthusiasts from far and wide.

Popular destination for winter sports.

Elektrostal’s proximity to ski resorts and winter sport facilities makes it a favorite destination for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter activities.

Promotes environmental sustainability.

Elektrostal prioritizes environmental protection and sustainability, implementing initiatives to reduce pollution and preserve natural resources.

Home to renowned educational institutions.

Elektrostal is known for its prestigious schools and universities, offering a wide range of academic programs to students.

Committed to cultural preservation.

The city values its cultural heritage and takes active steps to preserve and promote traditional customs, crafts, and arts.

Hosts an annual International Film Festival.

The Elektrostal International Film Festival attracts filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts from around the world, showcasing a diverse range of films.

Encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.

Elektrostal supports aspiring entrepreneurs and fosters a culture of innovation, providing opportunities for startups and business development.

Offers a range of housing options.

Elektrostal provides diverse housing options, including apartments, houses, and residential complexes, catering to different lifestyles and budgets.

Home to notable sports teams.

Elektrostal is proud of its sports legacy, with several successful sports teams competing at regional and national levels.

Boasts a vibrant nightlife scene.

Residents and visitors can enjoy a lively nightlife in Elektrostal, with numerous bars, clubs, and entertainment venues.

Promotes cultural exchange and international relations.

Elektrostal actively engages in international partnerships, cultural exchanges, and diplomatic collaborations to foster global connections.

Surrounded by beautiful nature reserves.

Nearby nature reserves, such as the Barybino Forest and Luchinskoye Lake, offer opportunities for nature enthusiasts to explore and appreciate the region’s biodiversity.

Commemorates historical events.

The city pays tribute to significant historical events through memorials, monuments, and exhibitions, ensuring the preservation of collective memory.

Promotes sports and youth development.

Elektrostal invests in sports infrastructure and programs to encourage youth participation, health, and physical fitness.

Hosts annual cultural and artistic festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal celebrates its cultural diversity through festivals dedicated to music, dance, art, and theater.

Provides a picturesque landscape for photography enthusiasts.

The city’s scenic beauty, architectural landmarks, and natural surroundings make it a paradise for photographers.

Connects to Moscow via a direct train line.

The convenient train connection between Elektrostal and Moscow makes commuting between the two cities effortless.

A city with a bright future.

Elektrostal continues to grow and develop, aiming to become a model city in terms of infrastructure, sustainability, and quality of life for its residents.

In conclusion, Elektrostal is a fascinating city with a rich history and a vibrant present. From its origins as a center of steel production to its modern-day status as a hub for education and industry, Elektrostal has plenty to offer both residents and visitors. With its beautiful parks, cultural attractions, and proximity to Moscow, there is no shortage of things to see and do in this dynamic city. Whether you’re interested in exploring its historical landmarks, enjoying outdoor activities, or immersing yourself in the local culture, Elektrostal has something for everyone. So, next time you find yourself in the Moscow region, don’t miss the opportunity to discover the hidden gems of Elektrostal.

Q: What is the population of Elektrostal?

A: As of the latest data, the population of Elektrostal is approximately XXXX.

Q: How far is Elektrostal from Moscow?

A: Elektrostal is located approximately XX kilometers away from Moscow.

Q: Are there any famous landmarks in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to several notable landmarks, including XXXX and XXXX.

Q: What industries are prominent in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal is known for its steel production industry and is also a center for engineering and manufacturing.

Q: Are there any universities or educational institutions in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to XXXX University and several other educational institutions.

Q: What are some popular outdoor activities in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal offers several outdoor activities, such as hiking, cycling, and picnicking in its beautiful parks.

Q: Is Elektrostal well-connected in terms of transportation?

A: Yes, Elektrostal has good transportation links, including trains and buses, making it easily accessible from nearby cities.

Q: Are there any annual events or festivals in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal hosts various events and festivals throughout the year, including XXXX and XXXX.

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Unwto 2021: a year in review, 2021: tourism united, resilient and determined.

2021 has been a year of learning and adapting for tourism. It has proven that only by working together can the sector overcome challenges and embrace opportunities.

Gathering the global tourism community and developing concrete actions, UNWTO has led tourism’s response with the vision of not only restarting, but doing so in a more inclusive, innovative and sustainable way.

January - March

As global tourism faced up to a second year of unprecedented crisis , UNWTO began 2021 by counting the cost so far . At the same time, however, the emergence of vaccines brought hope . The Global Tourism Crisis Committee met to explore what this meant for safe travel and the restart of tourism, while the announcement of the winners of the UNWTO Global Start-up Competition recognized the role culture and creativity will play in tourism’s restart and recovery .  

April - June

Collaboration and innovation were the focusat the start of the second quarter. UNWTO partnered with IATA on a new Destination Tracker to give both tourists and destinations clear, impartial and trusted advice. And a new Start-up Competition was launched to find the best ideas for accelerating rural development through tourism. In May, the launch of the Best Tourism Villages by UNWTO generated significant interest from Members in every global region. 

July - September

As destinations in Europe welcomed tourists back for the peak summer season, UNWTO highlighted the role of  digital solutions for the safe restart of the sector. But UNWTO also looked ahead, to a more sustainable future , working with key partners to  reduce plastic waste and consumption across every part of the sector. Together, we celebrated World Tourism Day around the theme of Tourism for Inclusive Growth, a message of solidarity and determination that was echoed on a global scale.

October - December

The final quarter of 2021 began with cautious optimism as UNWTO’s Barometer showed signs of improvement in tourist arrival numbers during the summer season in the northern hemisphere. A new partnership with Netflix will bring the message of tourism as a driver of opportunity to a massive global audience, while in November, UNWTO was tourism’s voice at COP26 and signatories to the landmark Glasgow Declaration keep growing. Finally, against the backdrop of the UNWTO General Assembly , the programme of work for the coming biennium was approved and 77% of Members voted to secure a second mandate for the Secretary-General from 2022-2025.

Growing and Moving Forward

UNWTO brings together political leaders from across the globe to deliver a strong, coordinated response. Governments, destinations, fellow UN agencies and international organizations met at key international events joining efforts to rethink tourism. Institutional coordination has proven crucial to find the solutions that build a smarter, greener and safer tourism.

Leaving Nobody Behind

The pledge to ‘ leave nobody behind ’ means nobody should miss out : Not now as we support the sector in the face of crisis, and not in the future as tourism starts again. Tourism is a proven driver of equality and opportunity. And that’s why we turn words into actions, delivering guidelines and action plans , to ensure everyone can enjoy the opportunities tourism brings.

A Shared Vision

Advancing the transformation of the tourism sector , partnerships are the only way forward. In 2021, UNWTO signed agreements with international organizations and the private sector to step our vision for the future of tourism: innovation , education , sustainability , green investment , rural development.

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World Tourism Barometer: September 2022

UNWTO updates World Tourism Barometer and reports international tourism back to 60% of pre-pandemic levels from January to July 2022

Below are excerpts from the September 2022 release of the UNWTO Tourism Barometer :

• The steady recovery reflects strong pent-up demand for international travel, especially in the months of June and July which are part of the Northern Hemisphere summer season. The easing or lifting of travel restrictions in an increasing number of countries also contributed to boost results.
• International tourist arrivals almost tripled (+172%) in January-July 2022 compared to the same period of 2021. Numbers climbed from -64% in January 2022 (versus 2019) to -28% in July, the strongest month since the start of the pandemic.
• Asia and the Pacific (+165%) saw arrivals more than double in the first seven months of 2022, though they remained 86% below 2019 levels.
• The ongoing recovery can also be seen in outbound tourism spending from major source markets. Expenditure from France was at -12% in January-July 2022 compared to 2019 while spending from Germany stood at -14%. International tourism spending remained at -10% in Belgium, -23% in Italy and -26% in the United States.
• The uncertain economic environment seems to have reversed prospects for a return to pre-pandemic levels in the near term. 61% of UNWTO Panel of Experts now see a potential return of international arrivals to 2019 levels in 2024 or later while those indicating a return to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 has diminished (27%) compared to the May survey (48%).

Know more about the global tourism sector performance from January to July 2022 by checking the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer Volume 20, Issue 5 .

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The situation for tourism remains rather unusual as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The crisis has marked a significant change for everyone, and above all for tourism, one of sectors hit hardest by the virus. 2020 was the year in which international tourism came to a near-complete standstill, and the only alternatives were domestic and local tourism.

2021 has seen some improvements, but only in a very subtle way as restrictions are still in place and many countries keep their borders fully or partially closed.

It is difficult to make an estimate for 2022 as it is not known how the pandemic will evolve. However, it is possible to talk about the new tourism trends that are likely to emerge over the coming year: – International travel with restrictions still maintained by both destinations and airlines in order to offer 100% security to the consumer.

– Reinforcement of COVID-19 testing; two years after the pandemic, COVID testing will still be in place as a preventive measure. – Conscious travel will be advocated. Travel to more distant destinations, but with prolonged durations of stay, as consumers look to enjoy as much of each place they visit as possible. – Green travel. Climate change is a problem that is present and growing. Consumers now are much more responsible and aware of the reality they live in on daily basis.

– A new trend is the “ed-ventures”. It is about combining education and holidays for the youngest members of the family. While adults may need to telework or attend meetings, their children can be doing workshops and learning in a playful way.

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Metallurgicheskii Zavod Electrostal AO (Russia)

In 1993 "Elektrostal" was transformed into an open joint stock company. The factory occupies a leading position among the manufacturers of high quality steel. The plant is a producer of high-temperature nickel alloys in a wide variety. It has a unique set of metallurgical equipment: open induction and arc furnaces, furnace steel processing unit, vacuum induction, vacuum- arc furnaces and others. The factory has implemented and certified quality management system ISO 9000, received international certificates for all products. Elektrostal today is a major supplier in Russia starting blanks for the production of blades, discs and rolls for gas turbine engines. Among them are companies in the aerospace industry, defense plants, and energy complex, automotive, mechanical engineering and instrument-making plants.

Headquarters Ulitsa Zheleznodorozhnaya, 1 Elektrostal; Moscow Oblast; Postal Code: 144002

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40 facts about elektrostal.

Written by Lanette Mayes

Modified & Updated: 02 Mar 2024

Reviewed by Jessica Corbett

Elektrostal is a vibrant city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia. With a rich history, stunning architecture, and a thriving community, Elektrostal is a city that has much to offer. Whether you are a history buff, nature enthusiast, or simply curious about different cultures, Elektrostal is sure to captivate you.

This article will provide you with 40 fascinating facts about Elektrostal, giving you a better understanding of why this city is worth exploring. From its origins as an industrial hub to its modern-day charm, we will delve into the various aspects that make Elektrostal a unique and must-visit destination.

So, join us as we uncover the hidden treasures of Elektrostal and discover what makes this city a true gem in the heart of Russia.

Key Takeaways:

• Elektrostal, known as the “Motor City of Russia,” is a vibrant and growing city with a rich industrial history, offering diverse cultural experiences and a strong commitment to environmental sustainability.
• With its convenient location near Moscow, Elektrostal provides a picturesque landscape, vibrant nightlife, and a range of recreational activities, making it an ideal destination for residents and visitors alike.

Known as the “Motor City of Russia.”

Elektrostal, a city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia, earned the nickname “Motor City” due to its significant involvement in the automotive industry.

Home to the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Elektrostal is renowned for its metallurgical plant, which has been producing high-quality steel and alloys since its establishment in 1916.

Boasts a rich industrial heritage.

Elektrostal has a long history of industrial development, contributing to the growth and progress of the region.

Founded in 1916.

The city of Elektrostal was founded in 1916 as a result of the construction of the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Located approximately 50 kilometers east of Moscow.

Elektrostal is situated in close proximity to the Russian capital, making it easily accessible for both residents and visitors.

Known for its vibrant cultural scene.

Elektrostal is home to several cultural institutions, including museums, theaters, and art galleries that showcase the city’s rich artistic heritage.

A popular destination for nature lovers.

Surrounded by picturesque landscapes and forests, Elektrostal offers ample opportunities for outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, and birdwatching.

Hosts the annual Elektrostal City Day celebrations.

Every year, Elektrostal organizes festive events and activities to celebrate its founding, bringing together residents and visitors in a spirit of unity and joy.

Has a population of approximately 160,000 people.

Elektrostal is home to a diverse and vibrant community of around 160,000 residents, contributing to its dynamic atmosphere.

Boasts excellent education facilities.

The city is known for its well-established educational institutions, providing quality education to students of all ages.

A center for scientific research and innovation.

Elektrostal serves as an important hub for scientific research, particularly in the fields of metallurgy, materials science, and engineering.

Surrounded by picturesque lakes.

The city is blessed with numerous beautiful lakes, offering scenic views and recreational opportunities for locals and visitors alike.

Well-connected transportation system.

Elektrostal benefits from an efficient transportation network, including highways, railways, and public transportation options, ensuring convenient travel within and beyond the city.

Famous for its traditional Russian cuisine.

Food enthusiasts can indulge in authentic Russian dishes at numerous restaurants and cafes scattered throughout Elektrostal.

Home to notable architectural landmarks.

Elektrostal boasts impressive architecture, including the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the Elektrostal Palace of Culture.

Offers a wide range of recreational facilities.

Residents and visitors can enjoy various recreational activities, such as sports complexes, swimming pools, and fitness centers, enhancing the overall quality of life.

Provides a high standard of healthcare.

Elektrostal is equipped with modern medical facilities, ensuring residents have access to quality healthcare services.

Home to the Elektrostal History Museum.

The Elektrostal History Museum showcases the city’s fascinating past through exhibitions and displays.

A hub for sports enthusiasts.

Elektrostal is passionate about sports, with numerous stadiums, arenas, and sports clubs offering opportunities for athletes and spectators.

Celebrates diverse cultural festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal hosts a variety of cultural festivals, celebrating different ethnicities, traditions, and art forms.

Electric power played a significant role in its early development.

Elektrostal owes its name and initial growth to the establishment of electric power stations and the utilization of electricity in the industrial sector.

Boasts a thriving economy.

The city’s strong industrial base, coupled with its strategic location near Moscow, has contributed to Elektrostal’s prosperous economic status.

Houses the Elektrostal Drama Theater.

The Elektrostal Drama Theater is a cultural centerpiece, attracting theater enthusiasts from far and wide.

Popular destination for winter sports.

Elektrostal’s proximity to ski resorts and winter sport facilities makes it a favorite destination for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter activities.

Promotes environmental sustainability.

Elektrostal prioritizes environmental protection and sustainability, implementing initiatives to reduce pollution and preserve natural resources.

Home to renowned educational institutions.

Elektrostal is known for its prestigious schools and universities, offering a wide range of academic programs to students.

Committed to cultural preservation.

The city values its cultural heritage and takes active steps to preserve and promote traditional customs, crafts, and arts.

Hosts an annual International Film Festival.

The Elektrostal International Film Festival attracts filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts from around the world, showcasing a diverse range of films.

Encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.

Elektrostal supports aspiring entrepreneurs and fosters a culture of innovation, providing opportunities for startups and business development.

Offers a range of housing options.

Elektrostal provides diverse housing options, including apartments, houses, and residential complexes, catering to different lifestyles and budgets.

Home to notable sports teams.

Elektrostal is proud of its sports legacy, with several successful sports teams competing at regional and national levels.

Boasts a vibrant nightlife scene.

Residents and visitors can enjoy a lively nightlife in Elektrostal, with numerous bars, clubs, and entertainment venues.

Promotes cultural exchange and international relations.

Elektrostal actively engages in international partnerships, cultural exchanges, and diplomatic collaborations to foster global connections.

Surrounded by beautiful nature reserves.

Nearby nature reserves, such as the Barybino Forest and Luchinskoye Lake, offer opportunities for nature enthusiasts to explore and appreciate the region’s biodiversity.

Commemorates historical events.

The city pays tribute to significant historical events through memorials, monuments, and exhibitions, ensuring the preservation of collective memory.

Promotes sports and youth development.

Elektrostal invests in sports infrastructure and programs to encourage youth participation, health, and physical fitness.

Hosts annual cultural and artistic festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal celebrates its cultural diversity through festivals dedicated to music, dance, art, and theater.

Provides a picturesque landscape for photography enthusiasts.

The city’s scenic beauty, architectural landmarks, and natural surroundings make it a paradise for photographers.

Connects to Moscow via a direct train line.

The convenient train connection between Elektrostal and Moscow makes commuting between the two cities effortless.

A city with a bright future.

Elektrostal continues to grow and develop, aiming to become a model city in terms of infrastructure, sustainability, and quality of life for its residents.

In conclusion, Elektrostal is a fascinating city with a rich history and a vibrant present. From its origins as a center of steel production to its modern-day status as a hub for education and industry, Elektrostal has plenty to offer both residents and visitors. With its beautiful parks, cultural attractions, and proximity to Moscow, there is no shortage of things to see and do in this dynamic city. Whether you’re interested in exploring its historical landmarks, enjoying outdoor activities, or immersing yourself in the local culture, Elektrostal has something for everyone. So, next time you find yourself in the Moscow region, don’t miss the opportunity to discover the hidden gems of Elektrostal.

Q: What is the population of Elektrostal?

A: As of the latest data, the population of Elektrostal is approximately XXXX.

Q: How far is Elektrostal from Moscow?

A: Elektrostal is located approximately XX kilometers away from Moscow.

Q: Are there any famous landmarks in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to several notable landmarks, including XXXX and XXXX.

Q: What industries are prominent in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal is known for its steel production industry and is also a center for engineering and manufacturing.

Q: Are there any universities or educational institutions in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to XXXX University and several other educational institutions.

Q: What are some popular outdoor activities in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal offers several outdoor activities, such as hiking, cycling, and picnicking in its beautiful parks.

Q: Is Elektrostal well-connected in terms of transportation?

A: Yes, Elektrostal has good transportation links, including trains and buses, making it easily accessible from nearby cities.

Q: Are there any annual events or festivals in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal hosts various events and festivals throughout the year, including XXXX and XXXX.

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Victor M. Mukhin was born in 1946 in the town of Orsk, Russia. In 1970 he graduated the Technological Institute in Leningrad. Victor M. Mukhin was directed to work to the scientific-industrial organization "Neorganika" (Elektrostal, Moscow region) where he is working during 47 years, at present as the head of the laboratory of carbon sorbents.     Victor M. Mukhin defended a Ph. D. thesis and a doctoral thesis at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (in 1979 and 1997 accordingly). Professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Scientific interests: production, investigation and application of active carbons, technological and ecological carbon-adsorptive processes, environmental protection, production of ecologically clean food.   

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