Location: Itä-Pakila In Helsinki (FINLAND)
N60°14.71'
E024°57.37'
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- There's clearly concrete shelter rooms in the area and a trench line, something which I haven't seen anywhere else so far, in this kind of shape. Not much is left from the battery itself, if anything at all. The cannon positions are really not visible anymore and the shelters and other structures have been either blown to pieces or buried underground, as can be seen in the left side picture, which shows an entrance to a shelter. - According to the inventory, the armament here during the year of 1918 was two pieces of 152mm Canet cannons. - 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: " The Bolshevik government has made peace with Germany and according to the peace agreement, they have removed the locks and aiming devices from all of the five hundred cannons which are located in Viapori fortification area. To perform this task, a special detachment was sent from St. Petersburg "
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- Concrete is still peaking from the ground in the area, where the actual cannon positions were located. It might be that the position just has been buried underground and it still would be possible to dig the battery itself visible from the ground. |
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- A rather large concrete structure, shaped like a letter U. Most likely a shelter which is missing the roof. Due to the huge amount of nettles, I didn't inspect it any closer than this. The overgrown vegetation makes it impossible to see where you are walking and can result an ugly injury if you fall into something. |
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- Remains from a trench line, which has connected the shelters seen above, to the actual battery. |
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- Just slight shapes from the positions are visible today. |
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Not much is left from Battery 83 and that is also stated in the
inventory. Originally I mixed this Battery with the positions 6 and 7.
The reason for the mix up was, that this really doesn't resemble much of
the batteries which I have seen so far and also those two positions are
located so close to this battery, that it's easy to confuse these three
between each others.
