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Touring Kivikko
The district Kivikko of Kurkimäki in Helsinki (Uusimaa) is a subburb located in Finland a little north-east of Helsinki, the country's capital place.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 7°C / 44 °F
Morning Temperature | 4°C / 38 °F |
Evening Temperature | 7°C / 45 °F |
Night Temperature | 8°C / 46 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 4% |
Air Humidity | 92% |
Air Pressure | 1006 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 14 km/h (8 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Rain and snow |
Tuesday, 26th of November 2024
7°C (44 °F)
6°C (43 °F)
Moderate rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Wednesday, 27th of November 2024
4°C (40 °F)
2°C (36 °F)
Sky is clear, light breeze, clear sky.
Thursday, 28th of November 2024
4°C (40 °F)
1°C (35 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Original Sokos Vantaa
Hotel Rantapuisto
Forenom Premium Apartments Vantaa Airport
Videos from this area
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Flight over Helsinki
Sightseeing flight: Malmi Airport-Pihlajamäki-Lassila-Konala-Pähkinärinne-Haukilahti-Keilaniemi-Lauttasaari-Jätkäsaari-Eira-Kaivopuisto-Suomenlinna-Aurinkolahti-Port of Helsinki-Herttoniemi-Vi...
Karting and Heart Rate.
Thanks to Garmin Virb and Heart Rate Monitor. #28 Joona Koistinen age 9 years. JK-Team.net in cooperation with: Garmin Kart Racing Lahokoski / Dino Kart Rautia Lapinlahti City Lights Lyreco...
Grumman American AA-5B Tiger engine start sound
OH-AYY @ Malmi Airport, Finland, March 24, 2010. Lycoming O-360 engine start & stop. Recorded on a ZOOM H2.
Finnish comprehensive school trip to a forest from seventies. Myllypuron Yläaste 70-luku.
Finnish comprehensive school trip to a forest from seventies. Shot at Beaulieu 4008 using Kodachrome 40 super 8 film. Digitized whit Panasonicd HDC-SD 100 camcorder. Filmed somewhere in middle ...
Blue1 Boeing 717 landing over Helsinki to Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland
Blue1 Boeing 717 approaching and landing to Helsinki-Vantaa (HEL), Finland. I have tagged some Helsinki city areas to the video. Plane goes over the East-Helsinki. Filmed to the west. Video...
Helsinki Land Fortifications - A Storage Room (the First World War Base VIII:1, Kivikko)
Two storage structures, at the North side of the base VIII:1. They were constructed maybe for the support of the nearby artillery batteries. The other one has two rooms and a roof, but it's...
Vaapukkamehua laatikossa
UUUSI BLOGI: http://sexmetalbarbie.blogspot.fi/ http://supersassyworld.tumblr.com/ Vanha: http://youknowwtf.blogspot.fi/
KONTULA mini MONTAASI
Lauantai session tuotokset. Kattokaa 720p HD:na!!! Skeittaajat: Hasan Mohamed,Elmeri Rautavirta Musiikki: Biggie Smalls - Living in pain.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Arndt Pekurinen
Arndt Juho Pekurinen was a Finnish pacifist and conscientious objector. In 1926, Pekurinen repeatedly refused mandatory conscription, leading to his imprisonment between 1929 and 1931. He refused to either wear a uniform or take arms. While Pekurinen was deeply religious, his motives were not based on his faith. While his contemporaries suggested he was Communist, he was not interested in politics.
Herttoniemi
Herttoniemi is a neighbourhood and a suburb of Helsinki, the Finnish capital. It is located about 7 km east of the city centre and can be easily reached by metro in 10 minutes. It has an older northern suburb and a newer coastal suburb with ferry connections to the city centre. There once was a large harbour in Herttoniemi, but in the 1990s, this industrial harbour area was demolished and converted to a tightly populated residential area and marina.
Kontula
Kontula is a quarter of Helsinki, Finland, part of the Mellunkylä neighbourhood. Due to its little higher than average concentration of government tenant housing complexes, immigrant and refugee population it is regarded as an average eastern Helsinki suburb. Kontula has been built mostly in the 1960s and 1970s when apartments were required in Helsinki. Many people from the city centre moved to Kontula. Metro expanded to Kontula in 1986 which made it easy to reach the area.
Siilitie metro station
Siilitie or Igelkottsvägen is a ground-level bridge station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the northern part of the district of Herttoniemi in East Helsinki. The station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.3 kilometres from the Herttoniemi metro station, and 2.1 kilometres from the Itäkeskus metro station.
Itäkeskus metro station
Itäkeskus or Östra centrum is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the Itäkeskus shopping centre and surrounding areas in East Helsinki. After the Itäkeskus station, there is a fork in the metro line: one branch continues north towards Mellunmäki, while another goes east towards Vuosaari. The Itäkeskus station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula.
Myllypuro metro station
Myllypuro or Kvarnbäcken is a ground-level station on the northern branch of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the district of Myllypuro in East Helsinki. The station was opened on 21 October 1986, designed by the architect bureau Toivo Karhunen Oy. It is located 1.9 kilometres from the Itäkeskus metro station, and 1.4 kilometres from the Kontula metro station.
Kontula metro station
Kontula or Gårdsbacka is a ground-level station on the northern branch of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the district of Kontula in East Helsinki. The station was opened on 21 October 1986, designed by the architect bureau Toivo Karhunen Oy. It is located 1.4 kilometres from the Myllypuro metro station, and 1.6 kilometres from the Mellunmäki metro station.
Puotila metro station
Puotila or Botby gård is a ground-level 'cut-and-cover' station on the eastern branch of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the districts of Puotila and Puotinharju in East Helsinki. The station was opened on 31 August 1998, making it one of the newest stations in the Helsinki Metro. It was designed by the architect bureau Kaupunkisuunnittelu Oy Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.0 kilometres from the Itäkeskus metro station, and 2.0 kilometres from the Rastila metro station.
Itis shopping centre
Itis (formerly Itäkeskus) is a shopping centre in the district of Itäkeskus in East Helsinki, Finland. It is the largest fully enclosed shopping centre in the Nordic countries, with a gross leasable area of 120,300 square metres containing nearly 300 different shops and 3000 parking spaces. Located nearby is also the Itäkeskus metro station. The shopping centre is divided into four sections: Pasaasi, Pikku-Bulevardi, Bulevardi, and Piazza.
Siilitie
Siilitie, literally "Hedgehog Road", is a road in the suburb of Herttoniemi in eastern Helsinki, Finland. The surrounding district and its metro station are also named Siilitie, according to the road. The metro station is one of the original stations of the Helsinki Metro. Most of the low-rise apartment blocks in Siilitie district were built in the 1950s, but a few taller buildings as well were erected in the 1990s.
Itäkeskus
Itäkeskus is a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä (as of 1980s) in the eastern part of Helsinki. The district's main attraction is the largest covered-in shopping mall in the Nordic countries, Itis. The district has a station on the Helsinki Metro. The Itäkeskus swimming hall was built in 1993.
Roihuvuori
Roihuvuori (Swedish: Kasberget, or Roihis and Roihika) is a quarter, part of Herttoniemi neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. The population of Roihuvuori is approximately 8,000 and its area is 1.47 km². There is a church, two schools, shops and restaurants in Roihuvuori. There is also a water tower, Japanese style garden and playground Tuhkimo. Each street in Roihuvuori were named after fairy tales, with the exception being Roihuvuori's main street (Roihuvuorentie).
Kivikko
Kivikko is the name of a quarter of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Part of the Mellunkylä district, it was built during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. The quarter is located on the west side of Kontula, an important subregional centre and will have a population of 5000 once completed. Kivikko is especially favoured by families with children. 14% of the inhabitants are immigrants or have immigrant roots, which is more than in most of Helsinki.
Radio Sputnik
Radio Sputnik is a Finnish radio station with programming in the Russian language.
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. The school was founded in 1908 and it is privately maintained by Maanviljelyslyseo (Agricultural Lyceum). The school celebrated its 100th birthday in 2008. Helsingin yhteislyseo and Lapinlahden yhteislyseo relocated to a new building and to its present location on the Rintinpolku street in Kontula in 1971.
Marjaniemi
Marjaniemi is a seaside residential area in eastern Helsinki, Finland, with a population of approximately 2,000. Administratively it forms a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä. Marjaniemi is a sought-after neighborhood, and the real estate prices rank among the highest in the city.
Playground Tuhkimo
Playground Tuhkimo (Leikkipuisto Tuhkimo in Finnish, Lekparken Askungen in Swedish) is a public, free of charge park at Roihuvuori district in Helsinki, Finland.
Mellunkylä
Mellunkylä is a neighbourhood in East Helsinki, Finland. The area of Mellunkylä is 9,9 km and it has population of 36,360 (2005). There are five suburbs in Mellunkylä: Kontula (Gårdsbacka) Vesala (Ärvings) Mellunmäki (Mellungsbacka) Kivikko (Stensböle) Kurkimäki (Tranbacka) Mellunkylä had some suburban settlements already before World War II. In 1960s, Kontula, the largest suburb in Finland was built in record time.
Jakomäki
Jakomäki is a quarter, part of Suurmetsä neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. It has an area of 1,92 km and a population of 5,481 (2005). The suburb was built within a few years in 1960s, and it contained only council houses. In 1970s, blocks of flats were built in northern area of Jakomäki. Jakomäki is located near the border of Vantaa. It is bordered by Kivikko, Heikinlaakso and Tattarisuo.
Heikinlaakso
Heikinlaakso, Henriksdal is a northeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Länsi-Herttoniemi
Länsi-Herttoniemi, Västra Hertonäs is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Tattarisuo
Tattarisuo, Tattarmossen is a northeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland, east of the Helsinki-Malmi airport. It has a population of 70 (in 2005), and contains 1084 jobs (December 2003). The neighbourhood consists mostly of small industry and warehouses. Many of the companies in the area deal with recycling metal. The woods in the area is known for their bird life and are popular among birdwatchers in Helsinki.
Puotinharju
Puotinharju, Botbyhöjden is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Kurkimäki
Kurkimäki, Tranbacka is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Suurmetsä
Suurmetsä, Storskog is a subdistrict of Helsinki, Finland.