Ülemiste City is a

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, on the territory of the former factory complex Dvigatel in

Ülemiste Ülemiste is a subdistrict () in the district of Lasnamäe, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland ...

neighbourhood. It is situated between

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, shopping centre Ülemiste Keskus and the Ülemiste railway station, forming the core of the Ülemiste subdistrict.

History

The factory complex Dvigatel, built in the end of the 19th century for producing railway cars and other machinery for the

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, lost its ''raison d’être'' after Estonia regained its independence from the

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in 1991. After its privatization and some unsuccessful attempts to restore former production capacities, the new owners decided to reprofile the business. In 2005, AS Mainor launched the transformation of the favourably-located 36 ha old industrial area into a modern technology campus, drawing inspiration from

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near

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, called the

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of the

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. In 2010, the Finnish company Technopolis was included in the development of the business park.

Current campus

The mission of Ülemiste City is to create a knowledge-based environment with an international reach for working, living and development that would increase the competitiveness of people and businesses, attract talented people and inspire the creation of new business models.Ülemiste City concept, http://ulemistecity.ee/en/innovators/ulemiste-city-kontseptsioon/ As of 2014, there are 300 businesses with 6,000 employees working on 82,000 m² of office spaces. A range of services for businesses and employees are available. The Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences, Tallinn European School and Kalli-Kalli kindergarten are located in Ülemiste City. The campus also houses the E-Estonia showroom and Estonia’s biggest restaurant Dvigatel.

, Ülemiste Keskus – the biggest shopping centre in Estonia –, the largest interchange in Estonia, Ülemiste railway station and Hotel Ülemiste are all situated in the immediate vicinity. Ülemiste City is developed by two separate companies. A third of the territory is being developed by Technopolis Ülemiste AS, 51% of which is owned by the Finnish company Technopolis Plc. Two thirds of the campus is being developed by Mainor Ülemiste AS, the majority shareholder being AS Mainor.Ülemiste City - introduction, http://ulemistecity.ee/en/innovators/ulemiste-city-tutvustus/

Future perspectives

The vision of Ülemiste City is to grow into a multifunctional campus operating 24/7, incorporating 15,000 employees of different businesses and organisations as well as 5,000 inhabitants. In the near future, many important infrastructure projects (

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passenger terminal, extension of a tramline through Ülemiste City to the airport) and other real-estate developments are planned in the Ülemiste area.Ülemiste supervaksalist tuleb trammitee lennujaama, Postimees 26.03.2013 http://tallinncity.postimees.ee/1181714/ulemiste-supervaksalist-tuleb-trammitee-lennujaama

Trivia

The buildings in Ülemiste City are named after prodigies of Estonian science and innovation. For instance, buildings bearing the names of

Ludvig Puusepp Ludvig Puusepp (also Ludwig Martynowicz Pussep or Pousep, rus. Людвиг Мартынович Пуссеп; in Kyiv – 19 October 1942 in Tartu) was an Estonian surgeon and researcher and the world's first professor of neurosurgery. Early l ...

, Walter Zapp,

Ragnar Nurkse Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse (5 October 1907, Käru, Estonia – 6 May 1959, Le Mont-Pèlerin, Switzerland) was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. He is considered th ...

, , , Artur Lind, , Johannes Käis, Boris Tamm,

Bernhard Schmidt Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt (, Naissaar, Nargen, Estonia – 1 December 1935, Hamburg) was an Estonian optician. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt camera, Schmidt telescope, which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and a ...

and Ernst Öpik can be found on the campus.

References

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