Vallisaari Explosion Plaque - Vallisaari, Helsinki
Posted by: small oaks
N 60° 08.247 E 025° 00.370
35V E 389261 N 6668390
Vallisaari Exlosion plaque by the small cafe in Vallisaari.
Waymark Code: WMVY27
Location: Finland
Date Posted: 06/09/2017
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Yet there is a bigger memorial of this disaster in Suomenlinna island there is memorial plaque also in Vallisaari where the disaster actually occured. Now opened to visitors to visit Vallisaari you can also find this memorial.
Small plaque reads in Finnish:
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Vallisaaren räjähdysonnettumuus
Heinäkuun 9. päivänä 1937 tapahtui tällä paikalla
Asevarikko 1:n laboratoriorakennuksessa onnettomuus, jossa saivat surmansa.
Listed all the persons who have died in the accident.
9.7.1987 Asevarikko 3"
"A destructive explosives accident occurred in Kuolemanlaakso (‘Valley of Death') in Vallisaari on 9 July 1937. Thousands of kilos of explosives were flung across Vallisaari and all the way to Suomenlinna. Despite the fact that the inhabitants were fleeing for their lives, eight lives were immediately lost, and so were four more later at hospital. Furthermore, the commander of the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of Defence, Colonel (Engineers) Aleksanteri Huuri, was so shattered that he died a week later. The reason for the explosion is unknown. Speculation focused on the careless handling of explosives, but sabotage was not ruled out." From the (
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