East Helsinki

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Entrance into Itäkeskus metro station. The Helsinki Metro forms the core of public transport in East Helsinki.
Residential buildings in Vuosaari, Helsinki.
Uutela nature park in Vuosaari is one of the many public areas for outdoor recreation in East Helsinki.
Roihuvuori water tower.

East Helsinki (

Helsinki Downtown (Finnish: Helsingin kantakaupunki, Swedish: Helsingfors innerstad), the so-called "South Helsinki". Officially, the name "East Helsinki" is not found in the city's regional nomenclature, but it was a name created by the locals of the area.[1]

Helsinki City areas as a whole. Areas of East Helsinki are marked in red.

East Helsinki has had problems with unemployment and poverty, and

Drug dealing is relatively common in East Helsinki.[2] This has led to a popular conception of East Helsinki as a problem-ridden area.[3] Kontula, quarter of the Mellunkylä district, has generally been considered one of the most notorious ghettos in particular.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Public transport in East Helsinki is organised mainly through the

shopping centres, Itis,[10] is located near Itäkeskus
, the geographical centre of East Helsinki, and many public and commercial services for the area are concentrated there.

A major change took place in the area's infrastructure upon the completion of the

Port of Vuosaari. Most of the existing port facilities in Helsinki were moved to the new seaport, which created increased economic activity in East Helsinki as well as released new areas for development in other parts of the city. As a logistics area, the Port of Vuosaari employs about 2,000 people, and through it, for example, bananas coming to Finland (about 5,000 containers a year), pass through the port to the main warehouses of the grocery stores.[11]

Demographics

As of 2022[update], the eastern and south-eastern major districts of Helsinki have a combined population of about 170,000, the two largest single districts being

Swedish, while 9.7% have another language as their mother tongue.[12] The most common languages after Finnish and Swedish are Russian, Estonian, Somali and English.[13] All that makes East Helsinki the most multicultural area of the capital region.[11]

The eastern major district has an

social welfare payments from the Finnish state. In Mellunkylä, where the situation is the most problematic, the figure is 14.9%. (For comparison, the figure for Lauttasaari in West Helsinki is only 3.8%.)[12]

Districts

District Population Area (km2) Density (per km2) Unempl. rate
Herttoniemi (Hertonäs) 26,333 6.79 3,873 10.8%
Kulosaari (Brändö) 3,791 2.47 1,535 5.7%
Laajasalo (Degerö) 16,486 16.55 995 7.8%
Mellunkylä (Mellungsby) 36,360 9.9 3,673 13.6%
Myllypuro (Kvarnbäcken) 9,189 2.19 4,196 14.3%
Vartiokylä (Botby) 21,214 7.84 2,662 10.9%
Vuosaari (Nordsjö) 31,948 15.38 2,077 11.7%

Many

Finnish hip hop artists such as Iso H, Steen1 and Asa, come from East Helsinki. Some of them, especially Asa, employ very political themes in their music, focusing on the problems of the Finnish capital's eastern suburbs.[14]

The Roihuvuori water tower, built in the 1970s, which is visible from most parts of East Helsinki, has become somewhat of a symbol for the area. It is used as a common device in Finnish films and TV series to signify that the events are set in East Helsinki.[according to whom?]

Sports

East Helsinki is home to a number of sports clubs. In association football, the most renowned clubs are FC Kontu from Kontula and FC Viikingit from Vuosaari. Kontu is known for its remarkable run between 1981 and 1986 when, under the management of Antti Muurinen, the club climbed from the 5th tier of Finnish football to the qualifying playoff for the Mestaruussarja in just six seasons. Viikingit became the first club from East Helsinki to play in the men's premiership when they competed in the 2007 season of Veikkausliiga. In women's football Puotinkylän Valtti is a two-time Finnish champion, Kontu won one championship, and Herttoniemen Toverit won the women's cup twice.[15] Laajasalon Palloseura is a neighbourhood club representing Laajasalo. They organize youth football for boys and girls and also have first teams for men and women.[16]

Other sports clubs include Pesäpallo, women's league team Roihu from Roihuvuori, and the oldest Finnish American football club and six-time Finnish champion, the East City Giants, founded in 1979.[17] Rugby Union clubs Warriors RC and Helsinki RUFC play in Myllypuro sports park.

In Myllypuro sports park are baseball and rugby grounds as well as indoor grounds for football, futsal, basketball, and floorball.

See also

References

  1. ^ Marttinen, Vesa (21 November 2022). "Itä-Helsinki on 170 000 ihmisen asuinalue, jota ei virallisesti ole olemassa". Yle (in Finnish). Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  2. ^ Pietiläinen, Jari (March 14, 2018). "Poliisi: Huumekaupassa raa'at otteet Helsingissä – "Epäillyt nuoria ulkomaalaistaustaisia miehiä"" (in Finnish). Helsingin Uutiset. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  3. YLE
    . Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  4. ^ "Historical Layers and Cultural Intimacy: An Ethnographic Case Study of Kontula". www.europenowjournal.org.
  5. ^ Tuominen, Pekka (February 27, 2020). "Historical and Spatial Layers of Cultural Intimacy: Urban Transformation of a Stigmatised Suburban Estate on the Periphery of Helsinki". Social Inclusion. 8 (1): 34–43 – via www.cogitatiopress.com.
  6. ^ Pyörätuolissa istunut mies puukotti avuntarjoajaa sydämeen Helsingissä – ”Kontula on pahamaineinen paikka”, tuomittu perusteli kääntöveitsellä varustautumistaan (in Finnish)
  7. ^ Asuinalue esittelyssä: Monikulttuurinen Kontula on palkittu lähiö (in Finnish)
  8. ^ Tour de Kontula (in Finnish)
  9. ^ Pahamaineinen Kontula on muutakin kuin narkkareita ja alkoholisteja – festivaalit lähestyvät (in Finnish)
  10. ^ "Tripla, Jumbo, Sello, Itis vai Ideapark? Selvitimme, mikä kauppakeskus onkaan oikeasti se kaikkein suurin ja millä perusteella". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). 17 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
  11. ^ a b c Marttinen, Vesa (29 November 2022). "Analyysi: Tilastot eivät kerro kaikkea – Itä-Helsingin syvin olemus kirkastui, kun toimituksemme vietti viikon idän lähiöissä". Yle (in Finnish). Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  12. ^ a b Helsingin kaupungin tietokeskus, Helsinki alueittain 2005.
  13. ^ Helsingin kaupungin tietokeskus, Ulkomaalaiset Helsingissä.
  14. ^ Paju, Petri (toim.): Samaan aikaan toisaalla. Nuoret, alueellisuus ja hyvinvointi. (Liesaho, Jan: Tiedettä, taidetta ja satuja – lähiö suomalaisessa rap-musiikissa) Nuorten elinolot vuosikirja IV, 2004, p. 132–144. Vammala: Nuorisotutkimusseura.
  15. ^ "Index of SPL Finnish League Suomen Cup Seasons". Football Archive.
  16. ^ "Laajasalon Palloseura".
  17. ^ "East City Giants".

East Helsinki travel guide from Wikivoyage

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