Taivallahden sotilashautausmaa
Helsinki Municipality, Uusimaa, Finland
The City of Helsinki had given the areas for cemeteries free of charge for an indefinite period, provided that they were used for their original purpose.
After the Russian military left Helsinki after the revolution and Finland's independence, the burials in the area ended in the 1920s. The last burials were carried out around 1923.
As the original use of the cemetery was no longer valid, the area was returned to the city in 1927. Burials there were banned in 1930.
The buried in Taivallahti cemetery were soldiers of the Russian army representing several nationalities and religions. A collective grave has been preserved in the area, in which four Poles have been buried. They were killed on April 12, 1918, the day of the conquest of Helsinki on Tehtaankatu near St. Henry's Catholic Church. The next day they should have returned to Poland. The tomb has a memorial stone, the Polish text of which is in Finnish: "May this foreign mold be light to them".
In the early 1990s, the city of Helsinki and museum authorities renovated the area into a park. All surviving tombstones and monuments were maintained, and the displaced stones were moved to the eastern end of the park. An obelisk-shaped memorial stone has been erected in the middle of these stones, with the text "Military Cemetery 1826–1930" in Finnish and Swedish on the attached plate.
The City of Helsinki had given the areas for cemeteries free of charge for an indefinite period, provided that they were used for their original purpose.
After the Russian military left Helsinki after the revolution and Finland's independence, the burials in the area ended in the 1920s. The last burials were carried out around 1923.
As the original use of the cemetery was no longer valid, the area was returned to the city in 1927. Burials there were banned in 1930.
The buried in Taivallahti cemetery were soldiers of the Russian army representing several nationalities and religions. A collective grave has been preserved in the area, in which four Poles have been buried. They were killed on April 12, 1918, the day of the conquest of Helsinki on Tehtaankatu near St. Henry's Catholic Church. The next day they should have returned to Poland. The tomb has a memorial stone, the Polish text of which is in Finnish: "May this foreign mold be light to them".
In the early 1990s, the city of Helsinki and museum authorities renovated the area into a park. All surviving tombstones and monuments were maintained, and the displaced stones were moved to the eastern end of the park. An obelisk-shaped memorial stone has been erected in the middle of these stones, with the text "Military Cemetery 1826–1930" in Finnish and Swedish on the attached plate.
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- Percent photographed43%
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Helsinki, Helsinki Municipality, Uusimaa, Finland
- Total memorials56
- Percent photographed77%
- Percent with GPS21%
- Added: 13 May 2020
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2706168
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