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73 unusual facts about Helsinki


1914 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1914 men competitions took place on February 21 to 22, 1914 in Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland.

1995 Finnish Cup

The final was held at the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki on 28 October 1995 with MyPa defeating FC Jazz by 1-0 before an attendance of 6,140 spectators.

1998 Finnish Cup

The final was held at the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki on 31 October 1998 with HJK defeating PK-35 by 3-2 before an attendance of 5,023 spectators.

Alexandra Pistohlkors

Alarmed by the worsening political situation, Alexandra and Alexander Pistohlkors fled the country for Helsinki, Finland in 1916.

Amanda Rylander

Born to steward Jonas Johan Rylander, she became a member of, first, the troupe of Anders Selinder (1857–59), and second to the troupe of Pierre Deland (1859–62) before she was employed at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki in Finland in 1863.

Ansa Ikonen

Aili Ansa Inkeri Ikonen (19 December 1913 in Saint Petersburg – 23 May 1989 in Helsinki) was an award-winning Finnish film and theater actress.

Armand Lohikoski

He was Among other things he worked as a journalist and as a division director in Finnish Broadcasting Company, where he produced the first radio quiz in Finland, and as a head of Helsinki office of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Films.

Arvid Genetz

Genetz graduated from the gymnasium in 1866 , graduated from the University of Helsinki as a candidate doctor in 1871 and received his doctorate in 1877 .

Carl-Alexander von Volborth

Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, von Volborth received the Gustaf von Numers Prize 1984 in the XVIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Helsinki.

CBSO Chorus

In January 2004 the chorus flew to Helsinki to join their music director at the time, Sakari Oramo and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra for the Finnish premiere of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, a work which they performed later in the year with the CBSO in Birmingham and Amsterdam.

Claës Fredrik Hornstedt

Claës Fredrik Hornstedt (12 February 1758 Linköping – May 1809 Helsinki) was a Swedish naturalist, taxonomist, botanical illustrator and a protégé of Carl Peter Thunberg.

Cyclomania

The two good friends K (Lauri Nurkse) and Eetu (Tommi Mujunen) works as bicycle messengers in Helsinki, in the evenings they practice hard to qualify for the Finnish championships.

Dorothy Ferguson

Due to the conflict, the Games of 1940 to be held in Tokyo temporarily relocated to Helsinki, upon the outbreak of war were canceled.

Edith Södergran

Samlade dikter ("Collected Poems") was released in 1949 in Helsinki and contained everything that had previously come out in book form plus some of the unpublished poems, of which a dozen would not be printed again until fifty years later.

Electronic referrals

Finland was the first country to implement an e-referral system, introduced in the capital city of Helsinki in 1990.

EML Kalev

Kalev’s ultimate fate or the location of the wreck was unknown for a long time (it was usually assumed that she hit a mine and sunk off Keri in the Gulf of Finland between Tallinn and Helsinki, but she could have been anywhere between Kronstadt and Hanko; some sources suggested she was scuttled in the Tallinn Bay during the Soviet evacuation on 28 August 1941).

Endriartono Sutarto

An instance of point in case was the making of Aceh peace truce that was achieved after a long diplomatic negotiation process in Helsinki, Norway.

Estonia–India relations

India re-recognised Estonia on 9 September 1991 and diplomatic relations were established on 2 December of the same year in Helsinki.

Eugen Schauman

Schauman also arranged a series of marksmanship courses for local students in Helsinki.

European Center for Leadership Development

Founded on September 9, 2004 in Helsinki as a Finnish corporation, ECLD started by offering character-based leadership seminars to companies in the Nordic countries, the Baltic region and Russia.

Finnish presidential election, 1982

He began his banking career by directing a large employees' savings bank in Helsinki.

Finnish Steam Locomotive Class F1

F1 locomotives used in Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Viipuri for local traffic, which they could easily handle.

Foreign relations of Uzbekistan

The Uzbek deputy foreign minister indicated that the Uzbek government was interested in talks with the EU during a visit to Helsinki, Finland in June 2006, just before Finland assumed the EU presidency.

Freedoms of the air

Icelandair sells tickets between Europe and North America via Iceland, Finnair sells tickets from North America to Asia via Helsinki.

Geoffrey Bennett

He was promoted to Captain at the beginning of 1953 and then spent two years as naval attaché in Moscow, also covering Warsaw and Helsinki where he alerted the Admiralty to the potential growth of the Soviet navy.

George Schlieps

Worked in Viipuri, Finland and operated a shop in Helsinki.

Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir

Musafir was a member of the Indian delegations to the International Peace Conference in Stockholm in 1954, World Peace Conference in Helsinki in 1965, and the World Peace Conference in Berlin in 1969.

Giorgos Sikeliotis

From then until his death in Athens in 1984, he took part in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including Ottawa, Rome, Toronto, Montreal, Alexandria, Helsinki and New York, where he had a solo exhibition in 1965 and was nominated for a Guggenheim award.

Gradus Gravis affair

Gradus Gravis OÜ, once a fully licensed psychiatric clinic, opened an office near the Tallinn Passenger Port — thus, being easily accessible to people of Helsinki —, offering prescriptions of certain controlled psychotropic drugs (most notably Subutex) to everybody who would pay a fee.

Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

All events were held between July 19 and July 24 in the Messuhalli building in Helsinki.

Hälsingfors

:Not to be confused with Helsingfors, the Swedish name for Helsinki

Hans Fährmann

The terms Father of the Saxon organists and Fährmann-School were current at the time; even at Helsingfors (Helsinki today) in Finland there are traces of Fährmann's activity and influence as a teacher.

Heikki Seppa

In 1941 he studied metalsmith at Goldsmith's school in Helsinki, and later at the Georg Jensen silver factory in Copenhagen.

Hekla

51 hours after the eruption had started ash fell on Helsinki, Finland having covered 2860 km in this time.

Helsingin yhteislyseo

Helsingin yhteislyseo (HYL) is a school in Kontula, Helsinki Finland consisting of a lower secondary school and an upper secondary school with over 50 teachers and 700 students in total.

Helsinki Prison

The Helsinki Prison, also known as Sörnäinen Prison (earlier known as Helsinki Central Prison) is a prison located in the Kalasatama district of Helsinki, Finland, opened in 1881.

Helsinki-class missile boat

They were armed with up to eight RBS-15 SSMs, one dual-purpose Bofors 57 mm gun, two SAKO 23 mm double-barreled anti-aircraft guns and two depth charge racks.

Helsinki-Malmi Airport

The Winter War interrupted civil aviation at Malmi, and the Airport was taken over by the Finnish Air Force.

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It has been selected to the worldwide List of 100 Most Endangered Cultural Sites 2004 by the World Monuments Fund, and re-selected to the 2006 list.

Joe Micheletti

His playing career ended in the spring of 1982, where he was a member of the United States team at the 1982 Ice Hockey World Championship tournament in Helsinki.

John Runnings

Fortunately, it was only Helsinki, but as he could see, the Soviets wanted him out of Moscow!

José and Pilar

It gathers sequences from Madrid to Helsinki to Rio de Janeiro and covers Jose and Pilar's life in Lanzarote, their trips around the world (presenting José's books, signing autographs, making speeches) and their most simple, transient and quotidian moments, as for during the period José writes his "The Elephant's Journey".

Julio Enrique Monagas

In 1952, a Puerto Rican delegation was sent to the Olympic Games in Helsinki.

Kamome Shokudo

The film is set in the Finnish capital Helsinki, and follows a Japanese woman who sets up a diner serving Japanese food in the city, and the friends she makes in the process.

Kari Mannerla

Kari Mannerla (January 9, 1930, Helsinki, Finland – July 12, 2006, Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish board and card game designer and advertising agency executive.

Kuvaputki

Locations for the documentary source footage include Philadelphia, PA, Boston, MA, New York City, Helsinki, Turku, and Tampere, Finland.

Maniac Dance

The music video for this song was shot on April 15, 2005 in Helsinki by director and guitarist Timo Tolkki's old schoolmate Antti Jokinen.

Mariem Hassan, la voz del Sáhara

We see her at the ETNOSOI Festival in Helsinki in 2004, in Les Escales, France, where the concert was transformed into a party with the Tuareg groups that joined the performance, in a theater in Liège singing "Do not abandon me," two days before enduring an operation for cancer, and in recordings made in the desert in Saharawi camps.

Marxist–Leninist Groups

The Marxist-Leninist Society of Helsinki (HMLS), the first such group, had been active since the late 1960s.

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Maxime Talbot

He also helped team Team Canada win a silver medal as an alternate captain in the 2004 World Junior Championships in Helsinki.

Myllykoski Corporation

Myllykoski Corporation was a family owned international paper group with central offices in Helsinki and Anjalankoski, manufacturing in Germany, Finland and North America, and sales offices around the world.

Nordström's theory of gravitation

Nordström's theories arose at a time when several leading physicists, including Nordström in Helsinki, Max Abraham in Milan, Gustav Mie in Greifswald, Germany, and Albert Einstein in Prague, were all trying to create competing relativistic theories of gravitation.

One Foot Under

Visa Vuorio (Tobias Zilliacus), a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live.

Orlunda radio transmitter

The transmitter beam was later changed on the two remaining antennas to improve reception in Copenhagen and Helsinki without decreasing reception in Oslo.

Pērkonkrusts

In the late 1930s, Celmiņš set up a 'foreign liaison office' of Pērkonkrusts in Helsinki, Finland.

Politics of Helsinki

Like in all Finnish municipalities, the City Council of Helsinki is the main decision-making organ in local politics, dealing with issues such as city planning, schools, health care, and public transport.

Romanos, Aragon

They were confirmed as this in 2001 in the UNESCO meeting in Helsinki.

Ruben Jaari

Jaari's parents were Samuel and Lena Jankeloff, and the family - originally from Russia - moved to Helsinki in the 1860s.

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Ruben Jaari (until 1936 Jankeloff) (January 22, 1906 Helsinki –August 15, 1991 Helsinki) was a Finnish Jewish businessman and founder of the department store Pukeva.

Sailfish OS

The Sailfish was presented for the first time by the Jolla team, including a worldwide internet stream, as a demo of the OS, as well as the UI and SDK during the Slush event in Helsinki, Finland, on 21,22 November 2012.

Saraband

While Henrik is away tending to the orchestra he conducts in Uppsala, Johan has a private meeting with Karin, informing her of a proposal from Ivan Chablov, head conductor in the St. Petersburg orchestra and an old friend of Johan, that Karin join him at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Spy Games

Filmed in Helsinki, Finland and New York, the movie incorporates elements of romance, action, and thriller genres.

Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra

In September 2001, TPO, led by conductor Lin Tien-chi, had a tour to Scandinavia to give two concerts in Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki, Finland.

The Swapper

The Swapper was a project made by two University of Helsinki students Otto Hantula and Olli Harjola in their spare time.

Traffic ticket

The most expensive speeding ticket ever given is believed to be the one given to Jussi Salonoja in Helsinki, Finland, in 2003.

Transport on the Åland Islands

The Silja Line, Viking Line and Tallink ferries operating between Helsinki, Turku or Tallinn and Stockholm call briefly at Åland, at either Mariehamn or Långnäs.

UMO Jazz Orchestra

Since 1984 UMO has been a professional orchestra which is financed by Finnish Broadcasting Company, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and the city of Helsinki.

Uusi

New Student House, Helsinki, student house in Helsinki, Finland, also known as Uusi

Vicente T. Blaz

From September 1972 to August 1975, General Blaz served as Chief, United Nations and Maritime Matters Branch, International Negotiations Division, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C. In this assignment, he represented the Joint Chiefs of Staff on U.S. Delegations to several international multi-lateral negotiations in Helsinki (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) and Geneva (Law of War) and was an action officer on Law of the Sea matters.

Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

The weightlifting competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki consisted of seven weight classes, all for men only.

Yassou Maria

The song and singer chosen competed in the Eurovision Final in Helsinki, Finland on May 12, 2007.

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2

Despite the subtitle "The Helsinki Concert", the album is not one complete concert, but was, in fact, assembled from two (and possibly three) different concerts performed in Helsinki in 1974.


1977 Men's European Volleyball Championship

It was hosted in Oulu and Helsinki, Finland from September 25 to October 2, 1977, with the final round held in Helsinki.

1996 Finnish Cup

The final was held at the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki on 3 November 1996 with HJK defeating TPS by 1-1 before an attendance of 3,632 spectators.

Among the Vultures

The tour continued to be sold out through Scandinavia with dates in Copenhagen, Denmark, Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland ending at the Helsinki Ice Hall (Venue Capacity of 8200) in Helsinki, Finland.

Andrew Rock

In the 2005 World Championships in the Helsinki, he competed in 400m and won a silver medal, setting a new personal best of 44.35.

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard

On 16 December 2010 Arctech Helsinki Shipyard received its first order when a contract for two icebreaking platform supply vessels similar to the SCF Sakhalin, worth US$100 million per ship, was signed with Sovcomflot.

Baltic Sea Action Group

BSAG is based in Helsinki, Finland but it operates throughout the entire Baltic Sea area.

Benedict Silberman

Benedict Silberman, originally Boruch Hirsch-Benedigton Silberman (December 5, 1901 Helsinki, Finland - December 11, 1971 Hilversum, Netherlands), was a Jewish composer and conductor.

Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 1000 m time trial

These are the official results of the Men's 1.000 m Time Trial at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland held on July 31, 1952.

Edward Ziegler

Edi Ziegler (born 1930), German road racing cyclist, from Bavaria, who won bronze medal in men's individual road race at 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki; professional rider during 1957–59

Finlandia-Ajo

Finlandia-Ajo (approximately: "The Finlandia Race") is an annual Group One harness event that takes place at Vermo Racetrack in Helsinki, Finland.

For the Poor

In the municipal elections of 2004, For the Poor signed up a total of 11 candidates in Helsinki, Suomussalmi and Vantaa.

Galoubet A

Galoubet ranked third on the WBFSH standings for 2000/2001, largely on the basis of his son Baloubet du Rouet who won three World Cup Final's in a row (Helsinki 1998, Gothenburg 1999, Las Vegas 2000) as well as team bronze at 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

Greta Kukkonen

Greta Peck (née Eine Matilda Kukkonen; January 25, 1911, Helsinki, Finland – January 19, 2008, Beverly Hills, California) was a Finnish-American real estate broker and first wife of Hollywood actor Gregory Peck.

Gustave Niebaum

Gustave Ferdinand Niebaum (originally Nybom) (b. 1842 in Oulu, Finland - 1908) acquired his maritime schooling in Helsinki, Finland.

Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm

Many of the actors was given a contract in the new theatre, but the competition with Sweden's leading lady Elise Jakobsson-Hwasser made Hedvig move to Finland, where she accepted a position at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki.

Helsinki Senate Square

During the Russification of Finland from 1899 onwards, the statue became a symbol of quiet resistance, with people of Helsinki protesting to the decrees of Nicholas II leaving flowers at the foot of the statue of his grandfather, then known in Finland as "the good czar".

Kuopion Lyseon lukio

August Ahlqvist (A. Oksanen), poet, critic, linguist and professor of Finnish at the University of Helsinki; strongest critic of the Finnish national writer Aleksis Kivi and his novel Seven Brothers

Laajasalon Palloseura

Laajasalon Palloseura (abbreviated LPS) is a football club from Laajasalo, Helsinki in Finland.

Les Olympiades

The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres (341 feet) tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers (Antwerp), Athènes (Athens), Cortina, Helsinki, Londres (London), Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo.

Lošinj

Agostino Straulino (b. October 10, 1914 in Mali Lošinj; d. December 14, 2004 in Rome) was an Italian sailor and sailboat racer, who won one Olympic gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics (Helsinki) and one silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne) in the Star class, and eight consecutive European championships (1949–56) and two world championships (1952–53) in this class and was world champion in the 5.5m-class.

Mark Evans Austad

In this role, he was also a delegate to the Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe which brought about the Helsinki Accords.

MS Princesa Marissa

Originally the Finnhansa sailed on the route Helsinki (Finland) — Nynäshamn (Sweden) — Karlskrona (Sweden) — Lübeck (Germany) — Slite (Sweden) — Helsinki carrying up to 1424 passengers, but after a few years the route was simplified into Helsinki — Nynäshamn — Travemünde.

Olivia Lewis

At her 11th attempt she finally won the 2007 festival, held in Ta'Qali on 3 February 2007, with the song "Vertigo" and represented Malta at the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 May 2007.

Olli Mäki

In August 1961 Mäki was beaten in two rounds by Davey Moore for the World Featherweight Title in Helsinki.

Olympic Committee of Israel

OCI achieved IOC recognition in early 1952, just in time for Israel's Olympic debut at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Örjan Sandred

Sandred was teaching composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm for 1998–2005 and he has been a guest lecturer at IRCAM, Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, at the Bartok Seminar in Szombathely in Hungary, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, at McGill University in Montreal, at Harvard University, at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and other places.

Otto Maja

Throughout the years, he has held several successful exhibitions all around Finland, for example in Seinäjoki, Helsinki, Pori and Kouvola .

Paul Unruh

He was drafted into the army, however, and missed out on an opportunity to win a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Reggie Pridmore

This record stood stood till the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, where India's Balbir Singh, Sr. scored 5 goals in India's 6-1 victory over Holland.

Robert H. Meltzer

Meltzer learned weightlifting from both Olympian gold and silver-medal holder and Mr. World and Mr. Universe title-holder Tommy Kono and Dr. Peter T. George, captain of the 1952 (Helsinki) and 1956 (Melbourne) U.S. Olympic Weightlifting teams.

Sakara Tour 2006

It contains live performances from the label's three bands Mokoma, Stam1na and Rytmihäiriö at Nosturi in Helsinki, Teatria in Oulu and Rytmikorjaamo in Seinäjoki.

The Bob Mathias Story

The story of the first man to win two consecutive Olympic Gold Medals in the Decathlon in London in 1948 and in Helsinki in 1952.

Victor Vacquier

In 1920, Vacquier escaped the Russian Civil War with his family, taking a horse-drawn sleigh across the ice of the Gulf of Finland to Helsinki, then moving to France and (in 1923) to the United States.

Vladimir Shilykovsky

His best season was 1958, when he won the overall silver medal in both the European Championships at Eskilstuna and in the World Championships at Helsinki, on both occasions trailing just behind Oleg Goncharenko.