Kalevankangas Cemetery ( fi, Kalevankankaan hautausmaa) is a cemetery in the Kalevanharju district within the city of Tampere, Finland.

History

The Kalevankangas Cemetery was consecrated in 1880. During the Battle of Tampere, Kalevankangas was the scene of much conflict. The first goal of the White Guard had been to take Kalevankangas, the barrack area and the graveyard. The Swedish volunteers were on the right, and the Jägers were on the left. The Reds were protected by the gravestones and White veterans would later recall that it seemed nearly impossible to get to them. The Battle of Tampere was the bloodiest battle of the entire Finnish Civil War, and the bloodiest in Finnish history at that point in time. Kalevankangas Cemetery still has headstones that have been shattered, or which have bullet holes. The killed Reds and those who later died in the

Tampere camp Tampere camp (also Kalevankangas camp) was a concentration camp operating from 6 April 1918 to 15 September 1918 in the Kaleva district of Tampere, Finland. It was set up for the Reds captured by the White Army after the Finnish Civil War Battle of ...

were buried in mass grave of 2,700 people. In 1928, a memorial was erected to remember the victims of the Imatra disaster of 1927.

Notable interments

* Gustaf Fredrik Ahlgren (1845–1883) *

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(February 24, 1862, Helsinki – January 30, 1912) * Kaarlo Vuori (August 19, 1863, Ruovesi – June 22, 1914, Runni) * Anton Salakari (April 11, 1859 – January 2, 1917) * Hugo Salmela (June 13, 1884, Parikkala – March 28, 1918, Tampere) *

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(1875, Kharkiv – April 28, 1918, Tampere) *

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(September 28, 1882, Tampere – June 13, 1935) *

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(October 18, 1906, Helsinki – March 3, 1940,

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) * Verner Järvinen (March 4, 1870, Ruovesi – January 31, 1941, Tampere) *

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(June 30, 1887, Sääksmäki – April 18, 1941) *

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(November 6, 1898, Finland – January 17, 1944, Finland) *

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(July 23, 1916 – June 18, 1947) *

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(October 16, 1890, Viipuri – May 6, 1948, Tampere) *

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(July 17, 1897, Asikkala – October 14, 1949, Kokkola) * Emil Aaltonen (August 29, 1869, Metsäkansa – December 16, 1949, Tampere) * K.H. Seppälä (March 8, 1881,

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– June 11, 1959, Tampere) *

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(July 11, 1890, Ikaalinen – April 18, 1962, Tampere) * Lauri Viita (December 17, 1916, Pirkkala – December 22, 1965, Helsinki) *

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(December 2, 1943, Elimäki –- February 2, 1966, Tampere) *

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(March 26, 1895, Tampere – September 2, 1967, Tampere) * Julius Saaristo (July 21, 1891, Tampere – October 12, 1969, Tampere) * Paavo Viljanen (June 17, 1904, Karstula – February 10, 1972, Tampere) * Arvo Tuominen (September 5, 1894, Hämeenkyrö – May 27, 1981, Tampere) * Uuno Sinisalo (1904–1985) * Matti Järvinen (February 18, 1909, Tampere – July 22, 1985, Helsinki) *

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(September 24, 1912,

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– August 5, 1991, Tampere) * Oskar Paarma (1905–1994) *

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(July 30, 1919, Ekenäs – July 24, 1995, Tampere) * Unto Oksala (March 15, 1915, Jyväskylä – August 6, 1995, Tampere) *

Vili Auvinen Vilho Emil "Vili" Auvinen (11 November 1931 – 2 August 1996) was a Finnish actor and theatre director. Theatrical background Auvinen's parents Vilho Auvinen and Hellin Auvinen-Salmi were also actors, so he became familiar with the world of thea ...

(November 11, 1931, Lohja – August 2, 1996) * Seppo Rannikko (April 6, 1928, Tampere – November 25, 2000, Tampere) * Martti Tapola (May 29, 1931 – May 16, 2001) * Osmo Alaja (January 28, 1915, Helsinki – June 30, 2001, Tampere) *

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(March 17, 1913, Pyhäjärvi – January 21, 2002, Finland) * Veikko Sinisalo (September 30, 1926, Riihimäki – December 16, 2003, Tampere) * Tuulikki Pohjola (June 11, 1920, Helsinki – September 21, 2005, Tampere) *

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(October 26, 1964, Tampere – December 3, 2005, Nokia) * Goony Strömmer (November 6, 1914, Ikaalinen – June 2, 2006, Tampere) * Juice Leskinen (February 19, 1950, Juankoski – November 24, 2006, Tampere) * Veikko Pihlajamäki (June 25, 1921, Karkku – December 20, 2006) * Markku Peltola (July 12, 1956, Helsinki – December 31, 2007, Kangasala) * Helge Perälä (June 3, 1915, Vehkalahti – February 13, 2010, Tampere) *

Mirkka Rekola Mirkka Elina Rekola (26 June 1931 – 5 February 2014) was a Finnish writer from Tampere who published poems, aphorisms, essays. Her poetry was considered ‘difficult’, thus she gained wide audience as late as in the 1990s. Rekola's production ...

(June 26, 1931, Tampere – February 5, 2014, Helsinki)

Gallery

File:Kalevankankaan hautausmaan kappeli.jpg, The chapel at Kalevankangas Cemetery File:Väinö Linna's grave.jpg, Väinö Linna's grave File:Mathias Merivirta hautapaasi.jpg, Matti Merivirta's grave File:Kalevankangas sh.JPG, Military cemeteries. File:Kikan hauta.jpg, The grave of

File:Signum for burial place of Into Auer.jpg, A sign for the burial place of

File:Grave of Aaro Pajari in Tampere Oct2011 002.jpg, The grave of

File:Sara Hildénin hauta kesäkuussa 2008.jpg, The grave of Sara Hildén File:Elokuvateatteri Imatran muistomerkki.jpg, Memorial dedicated to the victims of the Imatra disaster of 1927.

Notes

# http://wikimapia.org/7769642/Kalevankangas-Cemetery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6pSZvN_Ro

References

{{Tampere Cityscape Cemeteries in Finland Buildings and structures in Tampere