Kalevankangas Cemetery
The cemetery Kalevankangas is a cemetery in Tampere , Finland , which on a Os is the same name. It was built in 1880 and covers an area of 17 hectares.
Fierce battles were fought in and around the cemetery during the Finnish Civil War.
The chapel was designed by architects WG Palmqvist and Einar Sjöström and built in 1912 . It has been added twice: in 1967 a crematorium was built and in 1984 the so-called small chapel.
Memorials
- The burial place for the eight youths who drowned on Lake Näsijärvi in 1880
- The burial place for the fallen white soldiers of the civil war (Evert Porila, 1921)
- The burial place for the fallen red soldiers of the civil war (Jussi Hietanen, 1941)
- The burial place for the victims of the fire in the Imatra cinema (Veikko Kallio, 1928)
- The burial place for the victims of the disaster of the steamship Kuru (Kirsti Liimatainen, 1930)
- The hero's grave for the fallen of the Winter and Continuation War
- The memorial for the dead buried in Karelia (1955)
Graves of famous people
- Verner Järvinen , track and field athlete
- Paavo Kortekangas , bishop
- Juice Leskinen , musician, poet, writer
- Väinö Linna , author
- Eeva-Liisa Manner , author, poet, translator
- Markku Peltola , actor
- Juho Saaristo , javelin thrower
- Arvo Tuominen , politician
- Vilho Tuulos , athlete
- Jarmo Wasama , ice hockey player
- Hans Wind , fighter pilot
Web links
Commons : Kalevankangas cemetery - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Kalevankangas Cemetery (Finnish)
Coordinates: 61 ° 29 ′ 36 " N , 23 ° 47 ′ 42" E