|
Sörnäisten Rantatie
Sörnäisten rantatie (Swedish language, Swedish: ''Sörnäs strandväg'') is a wide street in Sörnäinen, Helsinki, Finland. It leads from the Hakaniemi market square to Suvilahti near the Kalasatama metro station. For the most part, Sörnäisten rantatie is a high-traffic road connecting Itäväylä to the city centre. It is also part of the European route E75. As well as Itäväylä, the street Hermannin rantatie also branches off from an intersection at the northern end of the street, going towards Lahdenväylä. The Hakaniemi bridge connects Sörnäisten rantatie to Pohjoisranta, leading to the Helsinki Market Square. Nowadays Sörnäisten rantatie is the most important traffic connection between the eastern and northeastern radial entrance roads to Helsinki (Tuusulanväylä, Lahdenväylä, Itäväylä) connecting them to the city centre. History Earlier, Sörnäisten rantatie was mostly an interior street in the industrial and harbour area, with a railway track branching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sörnäinen Harbour Rail
The Sörnäinen harbour rail line () was a side rail track in Helsinki, Finland, built in the 1860s, and dismantled in 2009–2010. It was opened in 1863,Olli Pohjanpalo”Kiskot tiensä päässä Helsingin rantoja kiertävät syrjäraiteet katoavat metri metriltä– ''Helsingin Sanomat'', April 4, 1990. Retrieved September 27, 2023. (in Finnish) a year after Finland's first railway line Helsinki–Hämeenlinna. The harbour rail ran from Pasila railway station to Sörnäinen Harbour to serve the port facilities. Originally the line was long, running through today's Teollisuuskatu in Vallila, but in 1965 it was re-routed around the inner city area via Pasila Rail Tunnel and Kumpula. The track was mainly used by trains going to the harbour, but since 1901 it was branched all the way south to Hakaniemi market square. Sörnäinen Harbour was closed down after 145 years of operation in November 2008, when the new Vuosaari Harbour was opened in the eastern suburb, and the facil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sörnäinen Tunnel
Sörnäinen (; ''Sörkkä'' or ''Sörkka'' in Helsinki slang) is a neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland. Sörnäinen is located a little more than one kilometre north from the coastal centre of Helsinki, near the district of Hakaniemi. The east side of Sörnäinen borders the sea. Sörnäinen used to be primarily an industrial district with many shipping companies and warehouses, however, nowadays it is a thriving urban area divided into four districts: Vilhonvuori, Kalasatama, Sompasaari and Hanasaari. It also has two metro stations: Sörnäinen metro station and Kalasatama metro station in the Kalasatama quarter. The headquarters of Senate Properties (''Senaatti-kiinteistöt'') is located in Sörnäinen. Also the Helsinki Prison is located there. Etymology The name "Sörnäinen" comes from the Swedish name "''Södernäs''" ("Southern cape") and was first mentioned in the foundation document for the New Helsinki in 1639, although the name is probably much older. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakaniemenranta
Hakaniemenranta (Swedish language, Swedish: ''Hagnäskajen'') is a street on the Siltavuorensalmi shore in central Helsinki, Finland. The street belongs to two separate districts: the western part belongs to Hakaniemi in Kallio, while the eastern part belongs to the Merihaka residential area in Sörnäinen. History The original name of the street since 1908 was Hagnäsin rantakatu after the Swedish name of the Hakaniemi district. In the next year it was renamed Hakaniemen rantakatu. The street got its current name in 1928. After the street Sörnäisten rantatie was widened into a larger street leading to the Itäväylä highway in the early 1960s, Hakaniemenranta also became part of the passage leading from Itäväylä to the city centre over the Pitkäsilta bridge. The other connection from Itäväylä to the city centre leads via the Hakaniemi bridge built at the same time and the Pohjoisranta street. Hakaniemenranta still has four lanes even though traffic on it has significa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miina Sillanpää
Miina Sillanpää (originally Vilhelmiina Riktig, ) was a Finnish politician. She served as Deputy Minister of Social Affairs in 1926-1927. She was Finland's first female minister and a key figure in the workers' movement. In 2016, the Finnish government made 1 October an official flag flying day in honour of Sillanpää. She was involved in the preparation of Finland's first Municipal Homemaking Act. Life Sillanpää was born in Jokioinen, during the famine years, to peasants Juho and Leena (née Roth) Riktig, who had nine children. She started her work career at the age of twelve at the Forssa cotton factory, and later in the Jokioinen nail factory. At the age of 18 she moved to Porvoo to work as a maid and changed her name from Vilhelmiina Riktig to Miina Sillanpää. In 1898 she started and three years later she became the director of the ''Servants' Association''. She held this position for about 50 years. From 1900 to 1915, she worked as caretaker of the Helsinki Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki Thunder
Helsinki Thunder was a temporary street circuit located in Helsinki, Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, .... The circuit was conceived by former racing driver . From 1995 to 1997, it hosted events in the FIA GT Championship, International Formula 3000 Championship and International Touring Car Championship. Lap records The fastest official race lap records at the Helsinki Thunder are listed as: References External linksTrack information Buildings and structures in Helsinki Defunct motorsport venues in Finland {{Autoracing-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kustaa Rovio
Kustaa Adolf Simonpoika Rovio (23 January 1887 in Saint Petersburg – 21 April 1938) also known as Gustav Ravelin, was a Finland, Finnish Communist politician and was the First Secretary of the Karelian Communist Party. Rovio was executed during the Great Purge. He was also the head of the Helsinki Police Department, Helsingfors (Helsinki) Police. Biography Kustaa Rovio was born in a Russian-speaking Finnish family from the Saint Petersburg, Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) area. At the age of 12, he began working as a delivery boy in workshops, then as a turner at the Atlas plant, and began attending Marxist circles. In 1905, he took part in the procession to the Winter Palace. In December 1905, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, RSDLP. In 1907, he was arrested and exiled to Vologda, from where he fled. In 1910, he was arrested again and exiled to Tula, Russia, Tula. He then fled to Finland and became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. From 1913 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin, his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. As the founder and leader of the Bolsheviks, Lenin led the October Revolution which established the world's first socialist state. His government won the Russian Civil War and created a one-party state under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism. Born into a middle-class family in Simbirsk in the Russian Empire, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics after Aleksandr Ulyanov, his brother was executed in 1887 for plotting to assassinate Alexander III of Russia, the tsar. He was expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in student prote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki Metro
The Helsinki Metro (, ) is a rapid transit system serving the Helsinki capital region, Finland. It is the world's most northern, the world's northernmost metro system. It was opened to the general public on 2 August 1982 after 27 years of planning. It is operated by Helsinki City Transport and Metropolitan Area Transport Ltd for Helsinki Regional Transport Authority and carries 92.6 million passengers per year. The system consists of 2 lines, serving a total of 30 stations. It has a total length of . It is the predominant rail link between the suburbs of East Helsinki and the western suburbs in the city of Espoo and downtown Helsinki. The line passes under Helsinki Central Station, allowing passengers to transfer to and from the Helsinki commuter rail network, including trains on the Ring Rail Line to Helsinki Airport. History 1955–67: Light rail plan The initial motion for building a metropolitan railway system in Helsinki was made in September 1955, though during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Helsinki
East Helsinki (, ) is an area in Helsinki, Finland, usually thought to comprise the city's eastern and south-eastern major districts (, ), including the districts of Vartiokylä, Myllypuro, Mellunkylä, Vuosaari, Herttoniemi, Laajasalo and Kulosaari. With the exception of Kulosaari, the buildings in the area are relatively new – most have been built in the 1960s or later – and constitute relatively densely inhabited suburbs, except for the southern part of Laajasalo and most of Kulosaari. On the other side of the bridge to the west of Kulosaari is Helsinki Downtown (, ), the so-called "South Helsinki". Officially, the name "East Helsinki" is not found in the city's regional nomenclature, but it was a name created by the locals of the area. East Helsinki has had problems with unemployment and poverty, and immigrants and refugees are somewhat concentrated in the area's subsidised housing and city-owned apartments. Drug dealing is relatively common in East Helsinki. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitkäsilta
The Pitkäsilta (; , ) is a bridge in Helsinki, Finland, connecting the districts of Kruununhaka and Siltasaari. It was completed in 1912 by the design of the architect Runar Eklund. Pitkäsilta is one of the best known landmarks of Helsinki. The bridge's name comes from near the end of the 19th century, when the district of Siltasaari was still an island. Two bridges led to the island, and bridge in the spot of the current Pitkäsilta was longer. History The first wooden bridge across the Kaisaniemi Bay was opened 1651, followed by three other wooden ones until the present stone bridge was built in 1910–1912. Pitkäsilta was damaged in the 1918 Finnish Civil War Battle of Helsinki as well as in the air raids of World War II. Some of the marks are still visible. National symbolism The Pitkäsilta connects Helsinki downtown to the once working-class districts of Siltasaari, Kallio and Hakaniemi Hakaniemi (; ) is an unofficial district of Helsinki, the Finland, Finnish cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
