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unusual facts about IV District, Turku



Adolf Paul

After three years of studies, Paul's father let Paul manage a farm the father owned on the Ruissalo island outside Turku.

Airship Italia

Floatplane / ski aircraft Junkers F 13 ”Turku” K-SALG (from Aero OY / Finnair) pilot: Lihr

Billion Dollar Brain

Location filming for Billion Dollar Brain took place in Helsinki and other parts of Finland, including Turku.

Carl Christoffer Gjörwell

Some of his buildings include Garnisonssjukhuset ("The garrison hospital", a hospital building on Kungsholmen, today a council house), the main building of the Royal Academy of Turku, the Old Academy Building in Turku and the Haga Palace.

David Monsalve

He was replaced by FC Inter Turku's third goalkeeper young Eemeli Reponen.

Erkin

Erkin Hadımoğlu (born 1972), present member of the Turkish band Yeni Türkü

FC Inter Turku

FC Inter was founded in 1990 by Stefan Håkans, the managing director of the towage and salvage company Alfons Håkans, allegedly after his 11-year-old son couldn't fit into any of the other youth teams in Turku.

Finnish Steam Locomotive Class F1

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

Hospital NEO

Hospital NEO is a private hospital situated in Turku, Finland that specializes in orthopedic day surgery.

Islam in Finland

Al-Idrisi also mentions the Port of Turku reflecting the Port of Turku's status as a capital city and major Baltic Sea trading post.

IV District, Turku

The district is one of the smallest in Turku, and is centred around the Martinkirkko church, named after the reformer Martin Luther (Martti Luther in Finnish).

Jarkko Kari

He married Lila Kari, a later mathematics student at Turku; they divorced, and afterwards Lila Kari became a professor of computer science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Jokela school shooting

The Lutheran Archbishop Jukka Paarma of Turku, the Orthodox Archbishop Leo of Karelia, the Catholic Bishop Józef Wróbel of Helsinki and other church authorities have expressed their condolences to the relatives and loved ones of those who died in the massacre.

Jyväskylä rail accident

The Jyväskylä rail accident occurred on 6 March 1998 in Jyväskylä, Finland, when the Sr1-driven express train P105 from Turku bound for Joensuu via Pieksämäki derailed.

Karesuvanto

Karesuando/Karesuvanto is the northernmost point on the major European route E45 to Gela in Italy and a stop on the European route E8 from Tromsø to Turku.

Kevola Observatory

The association was founded by Yrjö Väisälä, Liisi Oterma, Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius, and other astronomers working at University of Turku.

Kuvaputki

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

Maria Silfvan

Maria Silfvan was born in Turku and was to become one of the most known native actors in Finland in the first half of the 19th century, and could be regarded as Finland's first dramatic prima donna.

Maria Elisabeth Silfvan, as married Lempke and then Westerlund, in Swedish called Maria Sylvan, (25 March 1802 in Turku – 10 September 1865 in Oulu), was a Finnish actor, among the first professional native actors in Finland.

Monarchy of Finland

In 1742, following the Russian occupation of Finland in the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) and vague promises of making the country independent, the four estates gathered in Turku and decided to ask Empress Elizabeth of Russia if the then Duke Peter of Holstein-Gottorp, great-nephew of the late king Charles XII of Sweden, could be proclaimed as the King of Finland.

MS Silja Festival

Following the delivery of the highly successful MS Finlandia and MS Silvia Regina for Silja Line's Helsinki–Stockholm service, Johnson Line and Effoa decided to order a pair of ships based on a similar design for the Turku–Stockholm service.

MS Stena Saga

The passengers and crew were evacuated, and to ensure passenger safety they were taken to Turku onboard MS Svea instead of sailing to Helsinki as planned.

Munkkivuori

The Industrial zone of Pitäjänmäki limits Munkkivuori geographically in the North whereas the national road number 1 to Turku separates Munkkivuori from Vanha Munkkiniemi in the South.

Nuoli-class fast gunboat

The ships were constructed in 1961 by Oy Laivateollisuus AB in Turku, and modernized in 1979.

Palm Beach Princess

Following delivery, the Ilmatar was used on traffic from Helsinki or Turku to Skeppsbron in Stockholm.

Priit Pärn

Pärn had taught animation at the Arts Academy of the Turku University of Applied Sciences in Turku, Finland since 1994 and now he is teaching at Estonian Academy of Arts.

Pyrkivä Turku

The gymnasts of Pyrkivä Turku have had considerable success both on the national and the international level: Kaino Lempinen was a member of the team that won gold in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.

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.

Reverend Bizarre

The band's last concerts were played during the autumn and winter of 2006 culminating in a final performance in Turku.

Roman Catholicism in Finland

The Parish of Turku was established in 1926, and in 1927 the Parish of Terijoki.

Shoshinsha mark

The mark is also used as the logo for the imageboard software Wakaba written in Perl by Turku, Finland-based programmer Dag Ågren and by the imageboard index iichan whose indexed imageboards use Wakaba as their software package.

St Marie

Yli-Maaria (Övre S:t Marie in Swedish), a district of Turku named after the latter.

Suomen Talvisota 1939–1940

Lyrics for the band were provided under pseudonyms by M.A. Numminen and the Turku poets Markku Into (under the pseudonym Taannehtiva Seuralainen) and Jarkko Laine (under the pseudonym Lauri Kenttä, a reference to Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent).

Supreme Administrative Court of Finland

Appeals are made to the Supreme Administrative Court from the decisions of the administrative courts of Helsinki, Turku, Hämeenlinna, Kouvola, Kuopio, Vaasa, Oulu, Rovaniemi and Åland Islands, the Market Court, and the Council of State.

Tampere–Pirkkala Airport

Low-cost Onnibus expressbus service to Helsinki and Turku leave from Pirkkala ABC gas station, located about 4 km north from the airport, in the intersection of road 308 (Lentoasemantie) and road 3/E12 (Pyhäjärventie).

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.

Turku Airport

Logicity is supposed to link the different modes of transport together due to facts that Turku Airport is just in 20 minutes reach by sea ports of Turku and Naantali which combined values are comparable to the Port of Vuosaari in Helsinki, Both E18 highway to St. Petersburg and E63 to Tampere go via Turku Airport, and also rail transport connection to Russia and China passes by Logicity area.

In vicinity of Airport there are two highways E63 (Finnish national road 9) that goes from Turku to Tampere and Jyväskylä, and E18 (Finnish national road 1) which goes from Naantali via the Turku Ring Road and from Turku to Helsinki and Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Turku observatory

Tuorla Observatory of the department of astronomy at the University of Turku in Finland

Iso-Heikkilä Observatory, a former university observatory in Iso-Heikkilä district of Turku, now used by amateur astronomers

Turku Science Park

Its membership includes approximately 300 companies operating in Turku, including e.g. Nokia and Fujitsu.

Turunmaa-class gunboat

FNS Karjala has been berthed since 2002 at the maritime museum Forum Marinum in Turku as a museum ship next to Suomen Joutsen.

Ulf Långbacka

On 27 August 2011 his opera Henrik och Häxhammaren (Henrik and the Hammer of Witches) had its premiere at Turku Castle as part of Turku's year as joint European Capital of Culture.

University of Helsinki Botanical Garden

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.


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