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    The Turku barracks was a barracks building for the military of Russia built in 1833 in Kamppi, Helsinki, Finland, along the street Läntinen Henrikinkatu...
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    the Kamppi Center to the west, the former financial building of the Turku barracks to the east and the Scandic Hotels hotel Simonkenttä to the south. To...
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    railway station. A later proposal in 1857 was at the vicinity of the Turku barracks, and a third option was the environment of the Kluuvi well. Investigation...
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    functionalist buildings. An earlier building at the same location was the Turku barracks, which was destroyed in the Finnish Civil War in 1918. Lasipalatsi,...
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    hosted a group of barracks built in the 19th century, originally forming the westernmost part of the garrison stationed at the Turku barracks. After Finland...
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    renovator in Helsinki. By request from the state, he commissioned the Turku barracks in Kamppi from 1830 to 1833. Sinebrychoff was awarded the title of commercial...
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    century, Kamppi was mainly used as a military area by Russian forces, with barracks and training fields, which the name refers to. This so-called "Kamppi field"...
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    club. He was awarded the club's honorary membership. At the ruins of Turku barracks in Helsinki 17.4.1918. White general staff on a parade at Esplanadi...
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    Turku (Swedish: Åbo) is Finland's oldest city, having been founded in 1229. The city has a history as part of Sweden, Russia, and finally as an important...
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    Sirkkalankatu (category Streets in Turku)
    Sirkkalankatu (Swedish: Sirkkalagatan; lit. Sirkkala Street) is a street in Turku. It runs for approximately 1.5 km in the city's I, II and III District beginning...
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    pupils at a boarding school), hostel (students, workers or travelers) or barracks (military personnel). In English-speaking Canada, the common term is "residence"...
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    terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. Rigby was off duty and walking along Wellington...
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    She worked in an opera chorus for a time. She has recorded several Azeri türküs. In addition to her distinctive style, she has received appreciation for...
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    Paavo Nurmi (category Sportspeople from Turku)
    and for making running a major international sport. Nurmi was born in Turku, Finland, to carpenter Johan Fredrik Nurmi and his wife Matilda Wilhelmiina...
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    winter 1944. On February 22, Soviet bombers believed to have been targeting Turku, Finland, due to navigation issues, strayed into Swedish airspace, bombing...
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    DK-219 at Pudasjärvi Airfield and DK-208 at the roundabout leading to Turku Airport. On display J 35A 35069 of the Swedish Air Force Uppland Wing (F...
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    castle were that of Turku and Vyborg. The three high-medieval Finnish "castle fiefs" were ruled until the 1360s from the castles of Turku, Hämeenlinna and...
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  • Yemen Türküsü is a Turkish folk song (türkü means Turkish folk song) about Turkish soldiers who were sent to Yemen in World War I to fight a battle against...
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    regiments had also been formed; the first consisting of the battalions in Turku and Hämeenlinna and the second of battalions in Heinola and Kuopio. This...
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    upgrade in the 1960s, adding small traffic lights. Kupittaanpuisto park in Turku, Finland. Rahtarit-liikennepuisto in Kangasala, Finland. Hollihaan liikennepuisto...
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  • 115". Reuters. Retrieved 27 December 2016. "23 killed in Russian military barracks collapse in Siberia". The Telegraph. Agence France-Presse. 13 July 2015...
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  • Peter the Great's Naval Fortress Aegna Kakumäe Naissaar Suurupi Viimsi Turku Castle (sv: Åbo Slott) Häme Castle (sv: Tavastehus), Hämeenlinna Vyborg...
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    MS Freedom of the Seas under construction in a shipyard in Turku....
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    September 27, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2017. "Finland attack: Moroccan admits Turku killings". BBC. August 22, 2017. Archived from the original on August 23...
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  • «Грозящий» (1844) - Hulked 1863, decommissioned 1866 Ryurik 4 \ «Рюрик» (1851, Turku) - 1. Finnish naval equipage, voyaged to the Mediterranean Sea 1858–1859...
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    and 1,124 games in the National Hockey League between 1992 and 2014; in Turku Died: Cornelius Ryan, 54, Irish-born American writer, died of cancer. Sol...
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    The Finnish submarine Vetehinen in 1930 on the slipways at the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard in Turku, Finland...
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    Ljubljana, Slovenia (1967) Yerevan, Armenia (2001) Larnaca, Cyprus (1989) Turku, Finland (1976) Bremen, Germany (1989) Alexandria, Egypt Kyiv, Ukraine Cleveland...
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    Whyalla, South Australia, Australia Karjala, 1968 Turunmaa-class corvette, Turku, Finland INS Khukri (P49) in Diu, India HTMS Maeklong in Samut Prakan Province...
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    result of student unrest in the late 1960s, the former Bådsmandsstræde Barracks in Christianshavn was occupied, leading to the establishment of Freetown...
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