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Huopalahti (Swedish: Hoplax) was a municipality during the years 1920–1945 in Uusimaa, Finland. The municipality was bilingual. Current areas of Munkkiniemi, Lauttasaari and parts of northern Pasila were parts of Huopalahti. The area was separated from former Helsinki parish in 1920. Haaga was part of the municipality, but was separated from it in 1923. The Finnish National Defence University, that was moved to Munkkiniemi in 1923, was located in Huopalahti. In 1946, the municipality was consolidated to Helsinki. The Finnish Hunting Society which is headquartered in the city hosted the shotgun shooting events for the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Munkkivuori (Swedish: Munkshöjden, literally 'Monk Mountain') is a quarter of the Munkkiniemi neighbourhood in Helsinki. The buildings and the plan of site are typical of the late 1950s. Most of the residential buildings in Munkkivuori are within a loop formed by Ulvilantie ring road. The automotive traffic to the residential buildings is routed along Ulvilantie whereas Raumantie no through road terminating in the center of the Ulvilantie loop provides access to public services and limits the through-traffic in residential areas. A designed network of crushed stone walkways provides easy accessibility around Munkkivuori for cyclists, pedestrians and other non-automotive traffic. Munkkivuoren ostoskeskus (Munkkivuori shopping centre), the first shopping centre in Finland, was built in 1959. The small shopping center, known as "Ostari" amongst the locals, is the focal point of Munkkivuori and is the home to some 40 companies. Many everyday services are available at the viable shopping center. These services include two grocery stores, a post office, a cafeteria, a nearby church, a couple of barber shops and fast food restaurants, one larger restaurant, a pharmacy, a privately owned health center, ATM, various bank branches, a bookstore and an Alko liquor store. There are three educational institutions in Munkkivuori; the Franco-Finnish school, the Munkkivuoren Ala-Aste comprehensive school and a pre-school with a kindergarten. A youth center is located in the same building with the pre-school. Helsinki City Transport buses number 14, 18, 18N, 39, 39B, 52, 57 and 500 provide public traffic connections to 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. In the East, Huopalahdentie road draws a border between the neighbouring quarters of Niemenmäki and Etelä-Haaga. A footpath from Munkkiniemen puisto park to the mansion of Tali, excluding the mansion itself, lines the border of Munkkivuori in the West. Tali outdoor walking area with its sports facilities such as tennis, squash, soccer and bowling centers forms roughly half of Munkkivuori. All of the sports centers have indoors facilities providing all-year access to these sports. Additionally, outdoor soccer, tennis and rugby fields exist for summertime use. The soccer fields occupy a large area of Munkkivuori and are among the biggest in Helsinki. Both sand and grass soccer fields are available. Apart from the sports facility buildings there are no buildings in the outdoor area. The Tali 18-hole golf course is partially in Munkkivuori although the majority of the golf course resides in Tali quarter. The Tali allotment gardens, the main horse racing track of Finland, Vermo, and a couple of disc golf courses are in the vicinity of Munkkivuori.

Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu, commonly abbreviated SYK (English: "Helsinki Finnish co-educational school"), is a free elementary, middle and high school in the Etelä-Haaga district of Helsinki, Finland.

Munkkiniemi (Swedish: Munksnäs, Helsinki slang: Munkka) is a neighbourhood in Helsinki. Subdivisions within the district are Vanha Munkkiniemi, Kuusisaari, Lehtisaari, Munkkivuori, Niemenmäki and Talinranta. The land in Munkkiniemi was from the 17th century a part of Munksnäs manor. In the 1910s grandiose plans were made to expand all of western Helsinki with tens of thousands of new inhabitants, the so-called Munkkiniemi–Haaga Plan by Eliel Saarinen. The construction of the new areas started slowly and it wasn't until the 1930s that a more extensive construction phase began in Munkkiniemi. From 1920 to 1946 Munkkiniemi was part of Huopalahti municipality. Huopalahti including Munkkiniemi was incorporated with Helsinki in 1946. Munkkiniemi is one of the more affluent areas of Helsinki. Characterized by the relatively high proportion of Swedish speakers, around twelve percent, and a socioeconomic structure heavy on upper management and professionals, the district is appreciated as a particularly safe and well-serviced part of the city. This is reflected in the high prices of housing.

Vanha Munkkiniemi (Finnish), Gamla Munksnäs (Swedish), both of them meaning ′Old Munkkiniemi′, is a neighborhood that contains the original part of Munkkiniemi district in Helsinki, Finland.

The Aalto House, the home of Academician Alvar Aalto is located in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, at 20, Riihitie. The house is part of the Alvar Aalto Museum, which functions in two cities, Jyväskylä and Helsinki. The other location in Helsinki where the museum functions is Studio Aalto, which is located ca. 450 metres from the house, at Tiilimäki 20.

The Haaga executions of 1918 took place in Etelä-Haaga (‘South Haaga’) in what was then the Rural Municipality of Helsinge during the Battle of Helsinki of the Finnish Civil War on 12 April 1918. A total of 45 persons suspected of belonging to the Red Guards were executed by German troops at a bog at 8 o’clock p.m. at the site of the present Eliel Saarisen tie, halfway from the Pitäjänmäki roundabout to the tunnel leading to the Huopalahti Station, at the site of a pedestrian crossing. 28 of those executed were buried in the Pohjois-Haaga mass grave, which is located close to the current Pohjois-Haaga railway station. During the Battle of Helsinki, the German Baltic Sea Division advanced on 11 April to Leppävaara, Espoo. A group of Reds sought shelter in the cellar of Carl Theodor Ward’s garden in South Haaga, at 12 Vanha Viertotie. When the Germans arrived there, shots were exchanged, and two German soldiers were killed. The executions were said to be a retaliation for this. According to another version, shots were fired at the car of the German commander Rüdiger von der Goltz, and the executions were a revenge for this. During the night, the cellar became a prison, and while some Reds were allowed to go free, others were brought there in their place. The Reds were interrogated through interpreters, but not for long, as the Germans wanted to move on. 25 male prisoners were handed over to the Finnish Whites, and rest of the male prisoners were ordered to form a line by the near-by road, and every third was selected to be executed. They were ordered to march to a near-by bog, where the Germans shot them. After that the families of the victims were allowed to identify them and take them to be buried. The rest of the bodies, most likely people not from Helsinki or the Rural Municipality, were loaded on to carts driven by horses and taken a couple of kilometres away to be buried in a pit that had been dug in connection of the building of Krepost Sveaborg. A modest wooden cross was erected at the site of the executions, but it was lost when a road was constructed at the site.Afterwards, the Finns blamed the Germans for the events, and vice versa. The local Workers’ Association did not want to study the events, and in addition, its minutes for 1916–18 had disappeared. They were found in ca. 2008 in Turku, in the archives of Åbo Akademi.The names of 24 or 25 of those executed are known, but the names of 20 victims are still not known.In 1920, the bodies in the North Haaga mass grave were exhumed, and the Estonians present thought they identified the body of their former Estonian Deputy Prime Minister Jüri Vilms. According to the story the Estonians told at the time, Vilms and his retinue had been in Suursaari, where the Germans allegedly had captured them and brought them to Helsinki on a ship named Regina and then shot them at the Töölö Sugar Factory and then buried them in the North Haaga mass grave.Vilms had been a conspicuously tall man, and such a man was found in the grave. Three bodies were then transported to Estonia and buried in Viljandi County. Later it turned out that the Regina had not been to Suursaari or even moved anywhere from Helsinki during that spring. In the 2000s the idea came up that the matter could be investigated with the help of DNA technology, but Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja thought that such an investigation would be considered offensive in Estonia, and consequently, nothing was done about the matter. In 2008, a document was found in the Military Archives of Sweden, according to which Vilms was executed in May 1918 in Hauho. Vilms’ name was for a long time in a plaque at the mass grave in North Haaga, but in 2015 a new plaque was placed there without his name.This was the only mass execution that the Germans organized in Finland.

Etelä-Haaga (Finnish), Södra Haga (Swedish) is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.

The 2010 IPP Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Helsinki, Finland between 22 and 28 November 2010.

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, Finnish: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, Swedish: Institutet för hälsa och välfärd; until 2019, National Institute for Health and Welfare) is a Finnish research and development institute operating under the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. THL was formed on 1 January 2009, with the merger of the National Public Health Institute of Finland (KTL) and the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health. It is the biggest expert organisation under the ministry and its most important source of consultation regarding scientific knowledge.

The Munkkiniemi Pension or the Munkkiniemi Boarding House (most recently the Munkkiniemi House of Education) is a building in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, designed by Eliel Saarinen, which was completed in 1918 and located at Hollantilaisentie 11. Saarinen designed the building as well as its interiors. Along with the terraced houses on the other side of the street, the building represents the only concrete commission that resulted from Saarinen's Munkkiniemi-Haaga Plan of 1915.The building functioned as a boarding house only until 1923. In the following year, the National Defence University began its operation in the building, where it remained until 1940, when it was transferred to Santahamina. The building was then occupied by the headquarters of the Finnish Air Force until 1973. After that, the building was renovated, and in 1976 it was transferred to the State Education Centre. In 2002, the centre was incorporated and came to be known as HAUS Finnish Institute of Public Management Ltd. The main tenant was from 2004 the National Board of Customs, which initiated its educational functions there, later known as the Customs School. After the Customs School had moved to Pasila, HAUS moved to city center in January 2018 leaving the building mainly empty.The Helsinki City Government has passed a zoning plan in May 2019, according to which the building will be turned into apartments, with a total of 45 of them. The premises of the training center's restaurant will remain there. The outward appearance and the interiors of the building will change to some extent. The tower salon will be turned into an apartment, and some balconies will be built. The building is a protected one.

Tamminiemi (Swedish: Villa Ekudden) is a villa and house museum located in the Meilahti district of Helsinki, Finland. It was one of the three official residences of the President of Finland, from 1940 until 1981. From 1956, until his death, it served as the residence of President Urho Kekkonen. Since 1987, it has been the Urho Kekkonen Museum. It is located in a park by the sea. Tamminiemi's floor area is about 450 square metres (4,800 sq ft); living quarters comprise the first two floors while the third floor is dedicated to office space.Designed by architects Sigurd Frosterus and Gustaf Strengell, the Jugendstil villa was built in 1904 for the Danish-born businessman Jörgen Nissen. The villa was later owned or rented by a number of individuals, before being acquired by the publisher and artistic patron Amos Anderson in 1924. Anderson donated Tamminiemi to the Finnish state in 1940, to serve as a presidential residence. Although Presidents Risto Ryti (1940–1944) and C. G. E. Mannerheim (1944–1946) did reside at Tamminiemi, while President J. K. Paasikivi preferred to use the Presidential Palace as his official residence during his presidency (1946–1956), the villa is particularly associated with President Kekkonen—due in large part to the fact that it was his official residence and home for around thirty years; during his period in office between 1956 and 1981, before becoming his private nursing home until his death in 1986. In 1987, Tamminiemi was transformed into the Urho Kekkonen Museum. It is furnished the way it was in Kekkonen's time in the 1970s. In 1989, construction of the new presidential residence called Mäntyniemi started. An extensive renovation of Tamminiemi began in 2009 and was completed in 2012. The renovation restored the original exterior colouring and decorative motifs of the 1904 villa. Building technology was renewed, interior surfaces were cleaned and broken spots repaired, while preserving the minor signs of age-related wear, emphasizing the patina of Urho Kekkonen's time.Tamminiemi also has a famous sauna in a separate building which Kekkonen built after being elected president in 1956. The sauna also includes a swimming pool and a recreation room with a fireplace. Kekkonen used the sauna facilities to entertain his domestic and foreign guests, including the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Nowadays the sauna can be rented for private events but availability is very restricted due to the sauna's cultural and historical value.