Location: Itä-Pakila In Helsinki (FINLAND)

N60°14.71'

E024°57.37'

Base XVI, Position 6, Picture 1- The official inventory has marked the position 6 from the Base XVI as completely destroyed. Looking at the map from a home couch would really make one to draw that conclusion, as this position is so so close to the Kehä I freeway. Parts of the position have also been located in the intersection area of Kehä I and Tuusulanväylä freeway. However the position hasn't been right under the intersection, but a bit to the East.

- There's still a small patch of trees standing right in the intersection area, near the road for pedestrian traffic. If you penetrate the thick wall of bushes and trees, you can observe some depressions in the ground. It's another matter if those really are remains from the trench line or not, at least according to the maps, the defensive structures were located exactly there, where today the small patch of trees is standing.

- Second thing is, that the position 6 was divided in two. One section was located in the present day intersection area, as described above and the second section was located a bit further to East. There's also small forest area, which is overgrown. If you roam into to the thick patch of trees, you can see on the ground, that dead leaves have been piled there and there's a lot of them! Still there's no kind of hill from these leaves, it's like ground would have swallowed them. I wonder could there be a parts from the trench line under the dead leaves?

- Third thing is shown in the picture, which is taken in the above mentioned forest. That's a very regular shaped stone, too regular in my opinion and that is the only stone lying alone in the area. It could be that this is one of those petrified lime or concrete barrels, which were abandoned by the constructors. In either way, be that a remain from petrified concrete barrel or just an ordinary stone, I still really would not bury the position 6 from Base XVI totally into the history books.

 

II Northern Defensive Zone (1915 - 1918)

Krepost Sveaborg (Viapori)

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