Tikkurila (; sv, Dickursby) is a district and major region of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

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, Finland. Located in the eastern half of the Helsinki conurbation, some north of the capital's downtown district, it is the

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and commercial hub of Vantaa, although

Myyrmäki Myyrmäki ( sv, Myrbacka), literally meaning "Bog Hill", is a district and major region of the municipality of Vantaa, Finland. The district has an area of and a population of about 17,000, making it the most populous district in Vantaa. It is h ...

is a rival commercial hub within the municipality. Tikkurila's most popular attraction is the science center

Heureka Heureka is a Finnish science center in the Tikkurila district of Vantaa, Finland, north of Helsinki, designed by Heikkinen – Komonen Architects. It is located at the intersection of the Finnish Main Line and the river Keravanjoki. The aim of th ...

. Tikkurila railway station is the busiest in Vantaa and third-busiest in Finland. As the nearest mainline station to

Helsinki Airport Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (; fi, Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema, sv, Helsingfors-Vanda flygplats), or simply Helsinki Airport, is the main international airport of the city of Helsinki, its surrounding Greater Helsinki, metropolitan area, and the ...

(located from Tikkurila), it is served by all the high-speed Pendolino trains on the Helsinki to

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and

Lahti Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...

routes as well as other long-distance services. Some of the other communities surrounding Tikkurila are Jokiniemi, Simonkylä, Hiekkaharju, and Puistola in the

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municipality.

History

Tikkurila has been a marketplace since the 16th century, from which it has also received its name. ''Tikkuri'' is an old Finnish term referring to an amount of ten, used in fur trading at the time. The road between

Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

and

Vyborg Vyborg (; rus, Вы́борг, links=1, r=Výborg, p=ˈvɨbərk; fi, Viipuri ; sv, Viborg ; german: Wiborg ) is a town in, and the administrative center of, Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus ne ...

, King's Road, ran through the area, though the area remained a sparsely populated piece of the Helsinki Parish until the late 1800s. In 1862, the railway between Helsinki and

Hämeenlinna Hämeenlinna (; sv, Tavastehus; krl, Hämienlinna; la, Tavastum or ''Croneburgum'') is a city and municipality of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Tavastia and the modern province of Kanta-Häme in the south of F ...

was constructed, and one of its seven stations was built in Tikkurila, on its intersection with King's Road. The Swedish architect Carl Albert Edelfelt designed a Renaissance Revival styled station building, which (as of the 1970s) has since been adapted into the Vantaa City Museum. The railway brought industry into the area, including an

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plant, which currently operates in the area as the paint manufacturer

Tikkurila Oyj Tikkurila Oyj is a Finnish manufacturer of paints and lacquers. The main office and most of the production is located in Kuninkaala (neighboring district to Tikkurila), Vantaa near Helsinki. The company was founded in 1862 as ''Dickursby Oljes ...

. The railway also induced population growth. In 1946, Tikkurila became the administrative hub of Vantaa (then known as ''Helsingin maalaiskunta'', en, Rural municipality of Helsinki), after Malmi was transferred to Helsinki. Post-war population growth led to Tikkurila becoming the most populated area in Vantaa, though the

district and major region have both since become more populated than the Tikkurila equivalents. In 1960, a neofuturistic

swimming hall A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built above ground (as ...

was completed in Tikkurila.

Culture

Finland's largest science center,

, is located in Tikkurila. Opened in 1989, it is a

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devoted to popularizing scientific information and to developing the methods used to teach science and scientific concepts. The hemispheric-shaped

planetarium A planetarium ( planetariums or ''planetaria'') is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. A dominant feature of most planetarium ...

primarily presents films dealing with

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; until 2007, the theatre was called the Verne Theatre, and it ran super films and multimedia programmes made with special slide projectors that took advantage of the entire 500 m2 surface of the hemispheric screen. Vantaa City Museum is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

located in the old station building of Tikkurila railway station. It is operated by the city with free admission, and conducts diverse research and mapping work in co-operation with other parties, for example in connection with the

archeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

cultural history Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

and

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s of the urban area. It is used to host exhibitions publishing its own research and studies as well as other works related to the city's history. Tikkurila also hosts an annual

music festival A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or h ...

, Tikkurila Festivaali, from July to August.Tikkurila Festival
(in Finnish)

Services and facilities

Tikkurila is home to several services and facilities: * Helsinki Metropolia University Lummetie campus *

Laurea University of Applied Sciences Laurea University of Applied Sciences ( fi, Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu) is a university of applied sciences that operates in the region of Uusimaa, in southern Finland. Laurea was established in 1992 with the name ''Espoo-Vantaa Polytechnic'', w ...

campus * National Bureau of Investigation headquarters * Shopping center Dixi at the railway station * Shopping center Tikkuri *

Tikkurila Library Tikkurila (; sv, Dickursby) is a district and major region of the municipality of Vantaa, Finland. Located in the eastern half of the Helsinki conurbation, some north of the capital's downtown district, it is the administrative and commercial h ...

, the main library of Vantaa * Tikkurila Upper Secondary school, the largest high school in Finland * Vantaa city hall

Transportation

Tikkurila railway station is the busiest

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in Vantaa, and the third busiest in all of Finland (after Helsinki Central and Pasila). Although the

is not located in the Tikkurila major region, Tikkurila railway station is the nearest mainline station to it, connected by the Ring Rail Line and buses. Tikkurila railway station connections include: * Mainline station long-distance trains to most Finnish cities and Russia * P-train to Helsinki * K- and N-trains to Helsinki and

Kerava Kerava (; sv, Kervo) is a town and municipality within the Uusimaa region of Finland. The municipalities of Vantaa, Sipoo and Tuusula are adjacent to Kerava, which is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area. The town has a population of () an ...

* H-, R-, and T-trains to Helsinki and Riihimäki * Z-train to

* I-train to

Tikkurila also acts as the central bus station of eastern Vantaa, with connections to Helsinki Airport and almost all residential areas. Buses from Tikkurila also go to Helsinki. Ring III, which runs in the southern part of Tikkurila, is one of the most significant road connections in the area for car traffic.

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