Oulunkylä is a suburb and a neighbourhood of Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

, the capital of Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. It is located 6 kilometres (4 mi) north from the center of the city.

It has been inhabited since the 13th century. Earlier an independent municipality, it was made part of Helsinki in 1946. A rink used for speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

 and bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 is located in Oulunkylä. It was the 1st artificial ice pad for those sports in Finland. The Bandy World Championships

Bandy World Championships

The Bandy World Championships are a competition between bandy-playing nations. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy....

 has been hosted here.

Oulunkylä is also the name of a district. It consists of Patola, Veräjämäki and Veräjälaakso, and has a total area

Area

Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...

 of 4.51 km².

Musicians

Ville Valo

Ville Valo

Ville Hermanni Valo is a Finnish singer, songwriter and frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. He has received the "Golden God" award in 2004 by the heavy metal magazine Metal Hammer. Valo has a baritone vocal range. Valo was ranked number 80 in Hit Paraders Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time...

 and Tapio Rautavaara

Tapio Rautavaara

Kaj Tapio Rautavaara was a Finnish athlete, singer and movie actor.-Early life:...

 are from Oulunkylä. Tapio Rautavaara has a statue in Oulunkylä. Opera singers Cynthia Makris

Cynthia Makris

Cynthia Makris is a soprano opera singer whose professional career has spanned nearly thirty years.She was born 1956 in Sterling, Colorado, USA, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Music Performance from Adams State College. Makris has sung major soprano roles at La Scala and the Royal...

 and Raimo Sirkiä

Raimo Sirkiä

Raimo Sirkiä is a Finnish operatic tenor whose repertoire ranges from spinto to dramatic. Mr. Sirkia's most famous roles are Otello, Calaf, Tannhäuser, Siegmund, and Lohengrin....

 built their house on the lot where the house of Rautavaara was located. Also the bassist, Mikko Paananen

Mikko Paananen

Mikko Henrik Julius Paananen , better known as Migé or Migé Amour, is the current and founding bassist of the rock band HIM.-History:...

 is from Oulunkylä.

Writers

Tito Colliander, Joel Lehtonen

Joel Lehtonen

Joel Lehtonen was a Finnish author, translator, critic and journalist. Born in Sääminki , he committed suicide in November 1934. His childhood was fatherless and poverty-stricken, his mother suffered from mental frailties and Joel himself was forced into paupery...

, Larin-Kyösti and Estonian author Friedebert Tuglas

Friedebert Tuglas

Friedebert Tuglas was an Estonian writer and critic who introduced Impressionism and Symbolism to Estonian literature. Persecuted under the czar, he became an acknowledged representative of Estonian literature in the Soviet era.-Biography:The son of a carpenter, Tuglas studied at the Hugo Treffner...

 have lived in Oulunkylä.

Artists

Cartoonist, illustrator Ola Fogelberg, creator of Pekka Puupää

Pekka Puupää

Pekka Puupää is a Finnish comic and film character, created by Ola "Fogeli" Fogelberg. The character appeared 1925–1975 in the popular comic Pekka Puupää and 1952–1960 in thirteen films produced by Suomen Filmiteollisuus...

 -cartoon, was even nicknamed "Fågeli från Ågeli". Helena Hietanen

Helena Hietanen

Helena Hietanen lives and works Helsinki, Finland. Education: University of Art and Design Helsinki.Exhibitions:#Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland 1996#Illuminazione, The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1997...

 studied in the same high school with Ville Valo

Ville Valo

Ville Hermanni Valo is a Finnish singer, songwriter and frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. He has received the "Golden God" award in 2004 by the heavy metal magazine Metal Hammer. Valo has a baritone vocal range. Valo was ranked number 80 in Hit Paraders Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time...

, a few years earlier, but both under supervision of the legendary teachers Erkki Falk (math) and Erik Relander (history).

External links

• http://www.kaupunginosat.net/oulunkyla/ (Finnish)