Puustellinmetsä mass grave

On the final day of the Finnish Civil War, on 15 May 1918, there was a shooting incident in Tapanila, in which a White Guard man named Karl Lindström was killed.

At least some of the apprehensions were conducted in a random way, by apprehending men at the Tapanila Station who were going to travel to work by train in the morning.

The following night, on 17 May 1918, some of those apprehended were put on a march to the Puustellinmetsä Wood, where they were shot and then buried in a mass grave.

After World War II, local working-class organizations arranged an annual memorial march from the Tapanila square to the site of the mass grave.

It seems that this tradition came to an end in 1971 at the latest, when the remains of the bodies were transferred to the Malmi Cemetery.