Petsamo, Tampere

[1] The district is named after Pechenga (Finnish: Petsamo), which Finland acquired in the Treaty of Tartu.

At the same time as Soviet Russia ceded Petsamo to Finland in 1920, some large Tamperean industrial plants began to build a residential area for their working population on the northeast corner of the city.

[2] The neighboring parts of Petsamo are Kauppi, Kaleva, Liisankallio, Tammela, Osmonmäki, Lappi and Lapinniemi.

The Litukka's allotment garden, founded in 1922, is located in the Petsamo and Kauppi districts.

Tampere's eastern bypass, Kekkosentie, completed in 1989, bisects the allotment garden and the entire Petsamo district.