Location: Vuosaari In Helsinki (FINLAND)
N60°19.47'
E025°08.41'
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- Not many people have visited the interiors, but unfortunately most of those who have, have damaged the cave walls with graffiti's. Still thankfully there's not that many smudges, as the entrance is a difficult one and a bit dangerous. Most likely due to the difficult entrance, this cave was also skipped from the official inventory. - It's a shame actually, as I would have liked to see the official estimate from this place, which I think is very unique in Krepost Sveaborg. But even when the official inventory is missing, at least you get a chance to see the interiors here on Silent Wall. - The books telling about the time of the First World War in Finland, contains quite a many notes about Krepost Sveaborg. The following informal translation is an citing from the book: Diary of a Red Guardsman (Punakaartilaisen Päiväkirja) by Viljo Sohkanen. He joined the Red Guards at the age of seventeen, participated to the battles in the area of Vyborg as a medic and was finally captured in the area of Tikkurila by the advancing Germans and White Guards. Text in the closures are comments from the translator, meaning me: " There's few murders, robberies and other crimes which are well known and which happened in the Autumn (1917) before the Red Guard and police. The unemployed trench workers (Krepost Sveaborg) did those crimes in Malmi and in other parts of the Southern Finland. Now there is a question of bringing those people into the revolution court and sentencing them for these crimes "
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- This and the first picture on this page gives one view to the fact, why this cave is so exciting. First of all, the wall between the entrance hall and the storage section has been made with stone bars, something which I've not seen anywhere else. Also even when part of the ceiling has collapsed as a result of time, the iron reinforcements are still visible. This means, that this cave was passed during the twenties and thirties when iron was collected from the fortification and this one was spared from destruction. |
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- Looking towards the end of the cave, gives even better picture, why this is such a special place in the whole fortification. Rest of the roof is still intact and iron reinforcement is in place! The roof despite the collapsed section in the entrance, has stand the test of time remarkably well! The walls are also in one piece and made from the stone bars. So far I've not come across a cave, which is in such a good condition as this one. The only thing is those graffiti's, but hopefully those will be the last ones, as there's no entrance to the place anymore. |
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- The front wall of the cave, with the "self made" ladders. Don't know who made those, but when I left the place, I removed the stairs as the entrance is a really difficult one and a dangerous. You can quite easily get in, but getting out is entirely another matter. Don't really want to read from some newspaper in the year 2010, that some child was found from the cave, long dead. I also notified the museum office, that the cave has been damaged, as I don't believe that the hole has appeared to the front wall on it's own.
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