Helsinki is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland. The city is home to eight universities and six science and technology parks. Seventy percent of foreign enterprises operating in Finland have their headquarters in here. Helsinki was proclaimed the Finnish capital in 1812 and Finland’s only university, which had been founded in Turku in 1640, was transferred to Helsinki in 1828.
Helsinki soon became an administrative, university and garrison town, and the biggest industrial city in the land. By the beginning of the 20th century, it had a population of over 100,000.
Here below is a collection of historical photographs that show what Helsinki looked like in the early 20th century.
Crazy that they were so forward thinking to have built the Darude – Sandstorm music video set decades before Darude and electronic music were even invented!