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62 unusual facts about Helsinki


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.

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.

Bids for the 2006 Winter Olympics

The other four non-shortlisted candidate cities that made presentations to the IOC were Helsinki, Klagenfurt, Poprad-Tatry and Zakopane.

Billion Dollar Brain

Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), who has left MI-5 to work as a private investigator, is told by a mechanical voice on the phone to take a package to Helsinki.

Bleed Well

On the video, Valo can be seen wearing a t-shirt promoting "Aikuisten Lelukauppa", an adult toy store in Helsinki that is owned by his own father.

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.

Chuck Lefley

Lefley, whose older brother Bryan Lefley spent five seasons in the NHL, left the Blues in 1977-78, joining Jokerit Helsinki for one season scoring 12 goals and 11 assists in 24 games.

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was released in 1949 in Helsinki and contained everything that had previously come out in book form plus some of the unpublished poems, of which a dozen would not be printed again until fifty years later.

Electrocutango

In 2006, the performance toured theaters worldwide, visiting Dramaten in Stockholm, Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Bulgaria, and also theaters in Prague, Helsinki, The Faeroe Islands, Shanghai and Beijing.

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).

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.

Eurojackpot

The first ticket sales began on March 17, 2012 while the first ever draw took place on March 23, 2012 in Helsinki.

Finlandia-Ajo

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

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.

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.

Hälsingfors

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

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.

Heikki Seppa

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

Helsingin normaalilyseo

Unlike most other schools in Helsinki, the school is not owned by the city of Helsinki, but is instead part of the University of Helsinki, which itself is owned directly by the state of Finland.

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-Malmi Airport

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

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.

It Only Happens Every Time

It Only Happens Every Time is a 1977 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra with singer Monica Zetterlund in Helsinki and Stockholm and released by EMI in Europe and by Inner City Records in the US.

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".

Jun Shuang Huang

During that time he received awards from the 2008 Varna International Ballet Competition and the 2009 Helsinki International Ballet Competition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nick Katz

In 1978 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki (p-adic L functions, Serre-Tate local moduli and ratios of solutions of differential equations) and 1970 in Nice (The regularity theorem in algebraic geometry).

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.

Östra Finlands Nation

at the new student house of the University of Helsinki student union.

Pelicanman

In the scene where the camera shifts to Katajanokka seen from the Helsinki Market Square, the Norrmén house by Theodor Höijer is seen in the place of the Enso-Gutzeit main office by Alvar Aalto that is actually situated there.

Pērkonkrusts

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

Phog Allen

Allen later coached in the 1952 Summer Olympics, leading the United States to the gold medal 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.

Radio KLF

Radio KLF was a radio station based in Helsinki, broadcasting on FM on the frequencies 100.0 MHz (Helsinki), 101.9 MHz (Turku), 101.6 MHz (Tampere) and 98.1 MHz Oulu.

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.

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.

Seppo Sanaksenaho

Sanaksenaho worked as an engineer for the cities of Porvoo and Helsinki during his early career.

Song Number 1

It is best known as Russia's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland.

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.

Teemu Sippo

Teemu Jyrki Juhani Sippo S.C.I. (born 20 May 1947 in Lahti, Finland) is the current Roman Catholic Bishop of Helsinki.

The Helsinki Declaration for Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology

For the Declaration of Helsinki dealing with human research ethics, see Declaration of Helsinki.

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.

Underworld Trilogy

Set in Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Helsinki, the Underworld Trilogy tells three stories about drug trafficking and money laundering.

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.

White Hart Lane

The first, revealed in 2001, was to relocate to the 43,000-seat stadium at Pickett's Lock which was being planned for the 2005 World Athletics Championships as the centerpiece of London's bid to host the games; however the games were awarded to Helsinki, Finland, instead.

Yassou Maria

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


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.

Aino Sibelius

During the next few years they spent some time in a rented apartment in Helsinki, but in 1941 they moved back to Ainola with their many grandchildren because of the risk of bombing by the Soviet Union.

Amanda McDonald Crowley

Her contributions to the field of electronic art also include her work as Executive Producer of the 2004 edition of ISEA which was held in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland, and on a cruiser ferry in the Baltic Sea.

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.

Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee was founded on July 14, 1992 with a headquarters in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Cities in Motion

The goal of the game is to implement and improve a public transport system in 4 European cities - Amsterdam, Berlin, Helsinki and Vienna.

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.

Eight Songs for a Mad King

The British baritone Richard Suart has performed the piece in GelsenkirchenMilanHelsinkiStrasbourgStavanger and Paris; in 1987 The Musical Times described Suart's take as "compelling from start to finish".

Eric van Damme

In between he was Visiting Professor at European Universities in Bielefeld, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vienna, Lisbon; and in the USA at the Kellogg School of Management.

Erin Anttila

Erin Helena Maureen Anttila (née Koivisto, born Helsinki, Finland 2 July 1977), known in Finland as simply Erin, is a Finnish singer who rose to fame with the pop group Nylon Beat.

Eurojackpot

The lottery draw takes place every Friday at 21.00 EET in Helsinki.

Fiskars

The business areas of Fiskars Brands include Outdoor Recreation, Portland, Oregon, USA; Fiskars School, Office, and Craft, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Fiskars Garden and Outdoor Living, Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA; Fiskars Europe, Brussels, Belgium; and Fiskars Corporation and Fiskars Housewares, 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.

Hämeentie

True to its name, Hämeentie originally formed the starting part of a main road leading from Helsinki to Hämeenlinna, travelling through the districts of Viikki, Malmi (nowadays Kirkonkyläntie) and Hyrylä.

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".

IMI Galil

As a testament to its heritage, early prototypes were fabricated using Valmet Rk 62 receivers manufactured in Helsinki.

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.

Kuvaputki

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

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.

Oleg Tistol

At the end of 1988 Tistol and Reunov in cooperation with the curator Olga Sviblova start to exhibit their works in Glasgow, Reykjavík, Helsinki.

Olli Mäki

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

Otto Maja

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

Paavo Lipponen

Soon after returning to Finland he moved to Helsinki where he eventually attained a master's degree in international relations from the University of Helsinki in 1971.

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.

Riku Kiri

His background is in security work, and he holds shares in Gold's Gym-Helsinki.

Suzan Kahramaner

She participated in the Scandinavian Congress of Mathematicians, International Colloquium on the Theory of Functions, in Helsinki the very same year in August and had the opportunity to meet some of the famous Mathematicians like Ernst Hölder, Wilhelm Blaschke, Lars Valerian Ahlfors, Paul Montel, O. Lehto, M. Biernacki, Alexander Gelfond, A. Pfluger, W. Kaplan, Walter Hayman and Paul Erdős.

Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson

In 2007 he participated with 2 entries : "Draumur" performed by Hreimur Örn Heimisson which did not qualify for the national final and with "Ég les í lófa þínum" performed by Eiríkur Hauksson which took first place and represented Iceland in Helsinki under the name "Valentine Lost".

Tilt.tv

Tilt.tv was originally hosted by Jaana Pelkonen, who more recently hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki together with Mikko Leppilampi.

University of Helsinki Botanical Garden

Later on, in 1827, work on transforming the garden into a walking area for the denizens of Helsinki commenced according to plans drawn up by Carl Ludvig Engel.

In 1829, the walking area was pared back once the Imperial Academy of Turku Botanical Garden moved next to it after the Great Fire hit Turku and the Imperial Academy relocated to Helsinki.

Uusi

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

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.

Vorschmack

The restaurant Savoy at the top floor of one of the buildings around the Esplanadi in central Helsinki is famous for its Vorschmack.

World Sanskrit Conference

#An IASS newsletter informs that the proceedings of the Leiden Conference in several volumes (Brill, Leiden, 1990–92); the Proceedings of the Helsinki and Edinburgh Conferences are in the process of publication by Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi.

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.