Petsamo is a

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Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

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. The district is named after Pechenga (), which Finland acquired in the Treaty of Tartu. At the same time as

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ceded Petsamo to Finland in 1920, some large Tamperean

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s began to build a

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for their working population on the northeast corner of the city. When the area seemed to be far from the center, the informal name of the district was born as a result of the image. The neighboring parts of Petsamo are Kauppi,

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Liisankallio Liisankallio is a district of Tampere, Finland. The district, formerly known as ''Tammelan vainio'' ("Tammela Field"), is located east of the Tammela and Tulli districts. To the north is the Petsamo district, to the east are Kaleva and Kaleva ...

, Tammela,

Osmonmäki Osmonmäki is a district in the center of Tampere, Finland. The immediate neighbors of the area are Tammela, Tampere, Tammela, Tampella (district), Tampella, Lappi, Tampere, Lappi and Petsamo, Tampere, Petsamo. There are apartment buildings in the ...

, Lappi and Lapinniemi. Petsamo is bordered on the north by Kauppi, on the east by Kauppi and Kaleva, on the south by the Ilmarinkatu street and in the west by Tammela. The Litukka's

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, founded in 1922, is located in the Petsamo and Kauppi districts. The name ''Litukka'' is derived from Vilhelmiina and Erland Litukka, who moved from

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to the area in the late 19th century and built a small

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on land leased from the city of Tampere. Before the allotment garden, a nursery for schoolchildren was established in the Litukka area. Tampere's eastern bypass, Kekkosentie, completed in 1989, bisects the allotment garden and the entire Petsamo district. In addition to the allotment garden, the area is home to Kauppi's old

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area, Kauppi's

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, and Kauppi's both old and new

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