Sarsuinmäki Cannon and Museum Gun

The gun batteries located on Sarsuinmäki Hill on Partalansaari Island are part of the Salpa Line and were built during the Interim Peace in 1940. The open, elevated hilltop provided an excellent position for the artillery, allowing the defense of strategically important areas. When completed, the Sarsuinmäki gun battery became Finland’s 30th fortified artillery battery.

The French-made Canet gun has a barrel length of about seven meters. Its range was 21 kilometers, which would have covered the entire route of today’s Sulkava Rowing Race. Test firings were carried out at Sarsuinmäki, but the guns were never used in actual combat at this location. After the Continuation War began, the artillery pieces were moved closer to the front lines.

In 1994, a museum cannon was brought to Sarsuinmäki as an attraction. It is identical to the gun used for the original test firings.