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[62] [64] Forty conscripts took part in clearing work following the fire.


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Heat from the fire melted the cables of the chandeliers, and crowns fell to the floor.


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From the trail of extinguishing work, the basement floors of the station building had water up to the ankles.


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[62] The cost of the fire was estimated at around 30 million marka.


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[64] The station building was not insured, so the state had to pay all costs incurred by the fire.


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[62] The reason for the rapid spread of the fire was the open attic space of the station building, which was practically not compartmentalized.


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The entire attic was timber, and an incendiary pad had been used as insulation.


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In addition, a strong copper roof had been used as the roof structure, the demolition of which was considerably slower than the steel roof.


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[62] As early as 1939, the fire inspector of the Helsinki Fire Brigade had intervened in the construction method that compromised fire safety in the attic premises of the railway station.


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The attic spaces of the station building were ordered to be divided by firewalls into compartments technically insulated by fire.


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The 600-square-foot attic was compartmentalized after the fire to increase fire safety.


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As part of the repair work, the current closed and heated kiosk hall was built at the end of the station platform to replace the destroyed canopy.


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[63] There is also a humorous statement about the fire, “The fastest fire brigade in Finland.”


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At the time of the fire, the then Joutseno Municipality Fire Brigade, now part of the South Karelia Rescue Department, was in the process of applying for a new fire engine in the metropolitan area.


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Firefighters who were on a car search trip decided to stop by the station for a coffee and were first on the scene when the fire broke out.


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Renovations and extensions 1950s Olympic year 1952 a temporary passenger platform was built at Töölö goods station.


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The temporary traffic station was renamed Helsinki-Töölö.


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There were also shuttered Turku express trains that ran through the Porkkala rental area during the Games.


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[57] Between 1955 and 1957, the exit hall on the side of the Rautatientori was divided in two on the intermediate floor and the upper floor was decorated with the so-called Olympic Hall, which according to the original plans was to be completed as early as the Olympic year.


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Seven floors were built in the same Aikoh clock tower for the use of the kitchen department, and storage and social spaces were placed in the nearly unused basement spaces.


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[65] In 1958, ticket sales were opened in the premises of the former 3rd grade restaurant and waiting hall.


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[50] 1960s—1990s In 1967, a station tunnel was completed under Kaivokatu, and stairs were built from the central hall of the railway station to the station tunnel.


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Electric train services began from Helsinki station on 26 January 1969.


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[65] Between 1978 and 1979, baggage reception facilities were built in the basement level of the west wing of the station building, when the spaces vacated from the central hall were opened up as public access.


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[59] The last steam locomotive driven regular service train left Helsinki on 31 December 1970.


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Regular diesel locomotive driven passenger train services were discontinued on 11 August 1996.


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Today, train traffic at Helsinki railway station is handled entirely by electric power.


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[65] Kiosk hall kiosks were renovated in the early 1980s according to the plans of interior architect Antti Nurmesniemi.


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[66] 2000s The station's transverse underpass tunnel from the corner of Kaisaniemi Park to the corner of Elielinaukio to the tip of the west wing of the station was built in 1999—2000.


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It was designed by architect Jarmo Maunula.


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The tunnel measures 185 metres in length and more than seven metres wide.


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It connects all tracks to each other by stairs and elevators.


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The walls are tiled, making it easier to clean up graffiti and other rugs.


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[57] [5] On the west side of the station, on the site of the former goods yard, an underground 480-seat parking garage was built and on top of it the Eliel Square bus terminal.


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It was introduced in October 2000.


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The new platform tracks 17 to 19 were introduced in August 2000, with the passenger station achieving its current form from its tracks.


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[67] For a long time, Helsinki railway station was the only major railway station in Europe where passengers waited for a train in the sky [68].


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Plans were made to cover the main tracks from the station's completion, but the glass roofing was not completed until 2001.


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It was preceded by a design competition, which was already won in 1994 by a proposal from Esa Piirrose.


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[69] The glass canopy cost about 56 million marks.


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[5] The length of the covered section is 165 meters.


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Painted steel was used as its frame material and tempered glass as the roofing material.


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Between the tracks are gaps covered with 70 cm grates in the roofs, from which rainwater can drain into the crushed stone and absorbed into the soil, ensuring that in due course the timber piles of the station foundations embedded in the Kluuvi marsh do not decay.


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The covered space is semi-warm.


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Its front gets its heat from district heat return pipes embedded in front of the main door.


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[68] The West Wing was refurbished into a commercial business center in the fall of 2003.


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Along a corridor lined with restaurants and commercial spaces, you can run from the station hall to the end of the west wing, to the starting tracks for western commuter trains.


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[69] At the same time, the Pension Fund of the State Railways built a hotel and office house on the northern edge of Elielinaukio, extending over the departure tracks of commuter traffic.


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The building was designed by the architectural firm Artto, Palo, Rossi & Tikka.


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[69] It was completed in 2003.


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Glass, patinated copper and green granite have been used as facade material.


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[66] On 5 June 2005, the station was divided into eleven traffic locations which are Helsinki station, Helsinki Länsisatama, Pasila lower yard, Pasila station, Pasila goods, Helsinki Sörnäinen, Käpylä, Oulunkylä, Ilmala station, Ilmala railway yard and Helsinki Kivihaka.


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From 7 June 2010, the station's name was changed to Helsinki Central Railway Station.


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[70] The previous name was Helsinki railway station.


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In November 2015, the main screens of the station's schedules were changed to new ones.


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The new boards, rather than the old LCD screens, are fully modifiable TFT screens.


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[71] [72] Architecture Helsinki Central Railway Station is the most famous internationally of Eliel Saarinen's work in Finland.


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[43] It is architecturally and artistically inventive and is one of the most important monuments and landmarks in the centre of Helsinki.


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The building is one of the most famous works of Finnish building art.


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[73] After its completion in 1914, Helsinki railway station soon became internationally known and has become an international icon of the station building and a pilgrimage site for architects.


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The German professional press declared it the most beautiful railway station in the world.


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The Helsinki station building was even used as a paragon of Singapore's main station.


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[74] [5] The station has stood well for time, and its architecture is still gaining attention in the 21st century.


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[5] The station building was chosen among the top ten most beautiful train stations in the world in 2012 by the American publishing company FlavorWire.com and Lonely Planet, which produces travel guides, and in 2014 by the BBC.


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[75] [76] Along with the National Museum, it was one of the largest construction works in the state at the beginning of the 20th century.


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Both buildings were also accompanied by architectural line disputes.


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[65] The final plan of the Helsinki railway station has often been said to be very similar to Sigurd Frosterus' competition proposal “Eureka”.


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Both plans have similar vaults, but Saarinen's station lacks the features typical of Frosterus' concrete architecture.


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[77] Saarinen took a position in architecture influenced by Germany.


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The station shows similarities with German Karlsruhe and Swiss Basel Badischer Bahnhof railway stations.


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[78] Facade The building was very modern when completed: the structures were concrete and iron, the facades of red granite.


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[2] The arched vaults of the station halls are the earliest examples of monumental concrete construction in Finland.


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[79] The heavy stone building represents late Art Nouveau in architecture.


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[54] The concrete-roofed halls of the station building are visible in the exterior architecture.


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The layout of the building became a combination of heavy granite surfaces and sticky decorative motifs and graceful window frames playing with them balanced.


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[74] The facade of the building is divided by half-columns with neither foot nor capitel.


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[49] The smooth attic floors have windows, above them a mansard roof pulled slightly behind them, which was popularised in the 1920s.


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[77] The solution is familiar from German business house architecture, where its first developers were Alfred Messel and Hermann Billing.


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[49] Building The frame material of the station building is brick.


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The foundation walls, lower, intermediate, and upper bases have reinforced concrete, which are also the supporting structures of the vaults.


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The surface material is Hanko red granite and part plaster.


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On the sides of the railway yard side, plastering and burnt brick have been used as facades.


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The roof sheet of the building is iron sheet metal.


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Some of the window frames, downhorns, and eaves and cornice moldings on roofs and canopies are made of copper sheeting.


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[59] The central hall of the building is the height of the entire building and barrel-vaulted, with a space of about 780m2.


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The station building's former waiting halls are both kilpicary-vaulted hangars of approximately 450sq m.


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The exit halls on the railway square and Elielinaukio are 200 and 350sq m in size.


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The size of the covered courtyard, which remains inside the station's U-shaped wing building, is approximately 1100square feet.


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[59] Clock Tower The clock tower of the station building is one of the well-known landmarks of Helsinki.


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It was the tallest tower in the city when completed, [80] and became a popular vantage point for which tickets were sold in the early days.


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During World War I, with the Helsinki railway station operating as a military hospital, the clock tower was used as a temporary morgue.


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At the time of World War II, lotas carried out aerial surveillance of Helsinki from the clock tower.


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[54] The clock tower has viewing balconies in every direction.


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[81] The stairs in the lower part of the clock tower are made of concrete.


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The stairs at the top are made of wood.


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[82] Today the tower is no longer open to the public for security reasons, except for invited guests such as Eliel Saarinen's descendants.


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[83] [84] The tower rises above the ground to a height of 48.5 metres.


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[84] At its top is a ball supported by four wingwheels symbolising the internationality of the station and the railway.


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[43] The frame structure of the tower is of masonry brick, and the facade consists of about 3600 pieces of Hanko granite stone.


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The roof is timber framed and has copper roofing.


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The copper roof of the bell tower weighs about five thousand kilograms, and its total area is about 150m2.


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[85] The diameter of the lower edge of the tower dome is about 4.5 meters.


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The granite facade covers an area of about 1030square meters.


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The thickness of one granite stone averages 250 milli and weighs about 240 kilograms.


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[86] The bell tower was completed in 1919, but German punt-driven bells were not installed until 1922.


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The clocks were originally adjusted to show Peter's time.


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[69] In the early days, clocks were manually operated and weighs were moved by muscle power.


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[82] The clock tower has a clock display in every direction.


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[84] The diameter of each dial is approximately 3.3 meters.


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The hourly visitor is 1.2m tall and weighs about 40 pounds.


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Minute visors are 1.51 metres in length, [82] and weigh about 60 kilograms.


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[87] Each clock has its own machinery and were digitally merged in 1980 with the Central Clock of the Transport Agency [83].


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The dial is backlit.


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The tower has been serviced and repaired several times.


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[86] The most recent renovation was completed in March 2010.


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[88] Initially the cost of the renovation was EUR 1.5 million.


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In addition to the repair of Hanko's red granite stones, all stone seams were renovated.


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The copper roof of the bell tower and the balconies and roof of the tower were also repaired.


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[89] At that time, the cost estimate of the renovation tripled and, due to extensive moisture damage, converged to EUR 5 million.


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[90] In 2011, it was found that the clock does not keep up with its time, and an impulse failure in the machinery occurred as the cause.


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The impulses telling the clock about the need to overflow had been adjusted to be too sensitive during the previous renovation.


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[83] Lantern bearers The stone statues completed next to the main entrance of Helsinki railway station in 1914 are Lantern Bearers.


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The statues carved from granite were designed by sculptor Emil Wikström.


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The sculpture group consists of four granite male figures supported by orb-shaped lanterns.


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[91] The stone men's strong faces are claimed to have been Jalmari Lehtinen, a weathermaker crofter.


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[2] Widespread awareness Lantern Bearers have come under the name “Stone Men” thanks to VR's advertising campaign.


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The sculptures have been utilized in print advertisements through image manipulations and as animations on television starting in 2002.


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Thanks to advertising campaigns, lantern bearers have become VR's mascots.


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[92] The weight of the sculpture's head is about 1500 kilograms, the weight of the chest is about 6000 kilograms, and the hand weighs about 2000 kilograms.


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In the summer of 2013, Lantern Bearers were in a summer evo in Pasila from the road for the renovation of the railway station wall.


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At the same time, the statues were washed and serviced.


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[93] The Presidential Waiting Hall in the office wing of the station was originally built as a festive waiting hall for the Emperor of Russia and other high-ranking guests.


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There is a separate entrance from the Rautatientori side leading to this two storeys high waiting hall.


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[2] Norwegian sculptor Hans Uthuslien carved two smaller male figures resembling lantern-bearer sculptures at the entrance to the hall.


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[69] Emperor Nicholas II arrived through the hall at the Rautatientori for the last visit of the Grand Duchy of Finland.


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After Finland gained independence, the Emperor's waiting hall was dedicated to the President of the Republic.


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[50] The State Counsellor J. K. Paasikivi held talks in the hall with his entourage during negotiating trips to Moscow before the Winter War in the autumn of 1939.


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In 1940, exhausted by the war stages, Kyösti Kallio, who left his presidential duties, was on his way home from Helsinki to Nivala.


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Moments later, he suffered a sudden heart attack and died in the arms of his escorts on the station's main platform.


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[50] Escorts on the station included Marshal C.


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G. Mannerheim and Risto Ryti elected to succeed Kallio.


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According to the story, Kallio perished in the arms of Marshal Mannerheim, but in reality it was the President's Adjutant Colonel Aladár Paasonen [94] and Colonel A.


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F. Airo.


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Later, the station building's waiting hall has been used by various presidents when traveling by train or receiving guests arriving by rail.


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[95] Station Track The first rail link from Helsinki to Hämeenlinna was single track.


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However, rock cutting for birdsong was already originally made for two tracks.


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As traffic volumes increased, a second line track was built alongside the first in 1892.


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Later, the cliffs of Birdsong have been quarried and the track alignment extended several times.


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[57] Helsinki railway station was originally built outside the core city centre.


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In this case, there was room to build a railway machine shop and locomotive depot in the lobe of the station.


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Gradually they remained in the center of the city and depot operations began to be transferred to Pasila's machine shop in stages starting in 1899.


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[96] In 1923, the number of platform tracks at the railway station was increased from six to eight by narrowing the platforms and removing separate baggage platforms.


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In 1925, two new tracks were built on the section of the line between Helsinki and Pasila for servicing trains.


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In the 1890s, a harbour track was built from Helsinki railway station to run through southern Helsinki to Katajanoka.


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Its use later declined so much that it began to be dismantled in stages from the 1970s onwards.


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It was definitively demolished in 2009 after the completion of the Vuosaari harbour.


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[97] Between 1969 and 1970, the waterfront track was built with its own tracks between Helsinki and Pasila.


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In the 1990s, there was even a rigorous debate about Linnunsong rock cutting twice: first because of the construction of the Tikkurila urban track, and later because of the Leppävaara urban track.


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The cultural values of the cliffs and villas of Birdsong even threatened to bring down the entire construction of the Leppävaara Track.


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[96] [98] Today there are 19 platform tracks at Helsinki Central Station.


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Interurban services and commuter rail on the “actual” main line are concentrated in the central part of the station.


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Traffic on the Kerava city line, as well as the traffic of the Ring Railway from the Eastern Seaways, mainly departs from tracks 1 to 4, as well as commuter rail to Espoo and the Western Kurking Railway operates from tracks 12 to 19.


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The Helsinki to Pasila section has a total of 10 tracks in parallel.


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The four easternmost are mainline tracks, the middle two are service tracks at Ilmala depot, and the westernmost four are shoreline track tracks.


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[57] The Helsinki rail yard has a total of 83 central gears, of which 40 are simple gears and 43 are double-sided junction gears.


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All of them are short 1:9 gears where the maximum speed allowed is 35km/h.


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[99] Today, the Helsinki rail yard operates at the limit of its relay capacity during peak hours.


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Therefore, even small disruptions in the Helsinki rail yard easily confuse the entire train traffic.


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The terminus platform type of the station building and the cramped position of the station prevent the extension of the existing rail yard.


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The solution to the problem is a drop track that would allow commuter trains to be placed underground.


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[99] Accidents miniature|The situation on the day after the Helsinki train crash, 5 January 2010.


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The section of the line between Helsinki and Pasila is downhill in the direction of the city centre, and therefore a few train accidents have occurred at the station: on 28 August 1926, the brakes on the passenger train malfunctioned, and the train's locomotive drove through the wall into the newly completed terminal platform canopy of the railway station.


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The cargo of the accident train was a film lingonberry truck spread along the station platform.


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Material damage was considerable, but only four people were injured.


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The accident train was carried by train driver Johannes Linnakorpi, who later became a hero.


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[100] [50] On 23 October 1944, a mail train from Turku crashed through the terminus buffer into the station hall.


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Part of the outside wall of the station caved in on top of the locomotive, and the memorabilia kiosk at the station was fragmented.


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Although the accident occurred in the evening, there was no personal injury in the collision.


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[101] On 5 October 1990, a freight train over 600 metres long in Pasila due to brake failure slipped in front of the Helsinki station building at 4.10 am on Friday morning.


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One of the carriages penetrated through the wall of the station building and eight carriages smashed onto the station platform.


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The train driver was slightly injured in the accident.


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Material damage amounted to between 4 and 5 million marks.


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[102] On January 4, 2010, four disconnected intercity train double-decker carriages collided with the office wing of a hotel next to the railway station.


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Personal injury was avoided after station supervisors had time to evacuate the platform area at the last minute.


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[103] Trains' departure tracks Commuter trains from Track 1-3 through Tikkurila to the airport and Kerava.


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Commuter trains run from tracks 4-11 to Tampere, Riihimäki and Lahti, as well as long-distance trains in Tampere and Kouvola directions.


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Commuter trains run from tracks 12-19 towards Kirkkonummi and via Huopalahti to the airport, as well as long-distance trains to Turku.


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Question: When was Zarïna Dïas born?

Zarïna Dïas

Zarïna Dïas (, born 18 October 1993 in Almaty) is a Kazakhstani tennis player.


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Zarïna Dïas

At her best she has been ranked number 31 on the singles WTA list in January 2015.


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She has won one WTA tournament and seven ITF tournaments in singles in her career.


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In Grand Slam tournaments, Dïas' best achievement in singles is qualifying for the fourth round at Wimbledon in 2014 and 2015, and a doubles quarterfinal spot at the 2014 U.S. Open.


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[1] Tennis career Adolescence Dïas was born in Kazakhstan, but moved at the age of six with his family to Prague, Czech Republic, where he attended his school.


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She became interested in tennis after watching it on TV, and her mother took her to learn tennis.


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While training in the Czech Republic, his coach was Jaroslav Jandus.


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[2] [3] Junior career and start of professional career (2008—09), Dïas was ranked best ranked 17 in the junior world list in January 2009.


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[4] In 2008, Dïas participated in the ITF tournament in Astana, where he played for the first time in his career in the main series of an ITF tournament.


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She won the tournament after being completely without any WTA rankings at that moment.


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In the final, she defeated Tetjana Arefyeva of Ukraine.


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[1] In June 2009, Dïas won the ITF tournament in Stuttgart after defeating Hungary's Katalin Maros, who was ranked 157 on the world list in the final.


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[1] In July, in her first WTA tournament of her career, Dïas advanced to the quarterfinals at the age of just 15, after defeating eighth-placed Petra Kvitová, among others.


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[5] She lost in the quarterfinals to Iveta Melzer.


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In qualifying for the U.S. Open, Dïas lost in the first round.


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She finished the season ranked 206 on the WTA World List.


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[1] WTA tournaments and ITF tournament victories (2010—2013) Dïas opened the 2010 Acapulco WTA Tournament, which she qualified for by wild card.


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She lost in the first round to Edina Gallovits-Hall.


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In qualifying for the French Open, Dïas advanced to the second round.


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Zarïna Dïas

In June, she lost in Rome in the final of an ITF tournament to Patricia Mayr-Achleitner.


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In July, Dïas received a wild card into the main series of the WTA Tournament in Prague, losing in the opening round in three sets to Patty Schnyder.


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At the Tashkent WTA tournament played in September, Dïas advanced to the main series after making it through qualifying.


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However, she lost in the opening round to Monica Niculescu.


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[1] At the WTA tournament in Moscow, she reached the quarterfinals by defeating, among others, former world ranking number one and number one placed Jelena Janković in the tournament by figures of 6—1, 6—2.


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[6] She lost in the quarterfinals to Marija Kirilenko.


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She finished the season ranked 173rd on the WTA World List.


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[1] In 2011, Dïas began his season with the qualifiers for the Australian Open, where he advanced to the third round.


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In February, she participated in the qualifiers for the WTA tournament in Pattaya and advanced to the main series, where, however, she lost in the opening round to Nungnadda Wannasuk.


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At the WTA Tournament in Kuala Lumpur, she lost in the first round to Lucie Šafářová.


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In March, Dïas lost in the final of an ITF tournament in Kunming to Iryna Brémond.


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At the French Open, he participated in the qualifiers, but nevertheless lost immediately in the first round.


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In Baku, she lost in the opening round of the WTA Tournament to Jelena Bovina.


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In qualifying for the U.S. Open, Dïas qualified for the second round.


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At the WTA Tournament in Canton, Dïas cleared the qualifiers and qualified for the second round in the main series, where lost to fourth-placed Petra Martić.


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She finished the season ranked 223rd on the WTA World List.


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[1] In 2012, Dïas played mostly in ITF tournaments.


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In June, he won the ITF tournament in Buhara.


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In June, she participated in the WTA Tournament in Baku where she lost in the first round to Alberta Briant.


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At the Canton tournament in September, she lost in the first round to Volha Havartsova.


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In October, Dïas reached the final at the ITF tournament in Taipei.


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In October, she played in the same city in the main series of the WTA tournament and advanced to the quarterfinals where she lost to Kurumi Nara.


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She finished the season ranked 265 on the WTA World List.


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[1] In 2013, Dïas participated in qualifying for the Australian Open, where lost in the first round.


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In February, she advanced to the second round at the WTA Tournament in Kuala Lumpur after defeating Kristýna Plíšková until losing in the second round to Ashleigh Barty.


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In qualifying for the French Open, he lost his opening match.


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At the WTA Tournament in Suzhou in August, Dïas advanced to the second round, where lost to Shahar Pe'er.


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At the U.S. Open, he lost in the second qualifying round.


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In October, Dïas won the ITF tournament in Makinohara and qualified for the final at the ITF tournament in Taipei in October/November.


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She finished the season ranked 163 on the WTA World List.


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[1] During the year, Dïas moved to Canton, China, where his coach is Alan Ma.


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[7] Grand Slam debut and top 50 of the world list (2014—15), Dïas opened the season with the 2014 Hong Kong ITF tournament, where he lost in the final.


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He made his Grand Slam main league debut at the Australian Open, which he qualified for through qualifying.


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She advanced to the third round in the tournament after defeating Marina Erakovic, who was ranked 52 on the world list in the second round.


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In the third round, she lost to Simona Halep, ranked number 11 on the world list.


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In March, Dïas won the ITF tournament in Quanzhou.


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At the WTA Tournament in Miami, she qualified through qualifiers to the main series and there to the second round where she lost to Sloane Stephens.


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After the tournament, Dïas rose to the top 100 on the world list for the first time.


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At the WTA Tournament in Kuala Lumpur, she reached the quarterfinals where she lost to Dominika Cibulková, who was ranked number ten in the world list, in a three-set match.


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In May, she advanced to the quarterfinals at the WTA Tournament in Strasbourg, where she lost to Christina McHale after forfeiting in the second set.


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At the French Open, Dïas lost in the first round to Petra Kvitová, who was ranked number six on the world list.


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In June, she reached the final at the ITF tournament in Nottingham.


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At the WTA Tournament in Birmingham, she lost in the first round to Coco Vandeweghe.


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[1] At Wimbledon, Dïas reached the fourth round after defeating Carla Suárez Navarro, who was ranked number 15 on the world list, among others.


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In the fourth round, she lost to Simona Halep, who was third on the world list.


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At the WTA Tournament in Washington, she lost in the second round to Kurumi Nara after forfeiting in the third round.


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Zarïna Dïas

At the WTA Tournament in Cincinnati, she lost in the second round to Lucie Šafářová.


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[1] Dïas entered the top 50 on the WTA World Rank for the first time in her career on 18 August 2014, following her ranking of 46th on the list, while becoming the first starter Kazakh player to reach the top 50.


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[8] [9] At the U.S. Open, Dïas advanced to the third round where lost to Yekaterina Makarova.


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In doubles, Dïas reached the quarterfinals with Xu Yifan, where they lost to third-placed pair Cara Black and Sania Mirza.


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[1] At the WTA Tournament in Canton, she lost in the first round to Zhang Ling.


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Zarïna Dïas

At the WTA Tournament in Wuhan, she reached the second round after defeating Klára Koukalová until losing to Angelique Kerber.


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In Beijing, Dïas again defeated Koukalová, but lost in the second round to a repeat to Kerber.


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[1] At the Osaka WTA Tournament played in October, Dïas advanced to the semi-finals and final for the first time in her career.


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[10] In the final, she lost to Samantha Stosur, who won the Osaka tournament for the third time in her career.


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[11] In September—October, the WTA Rising Stars voting held by the WTA, Dïas earned a spot with votes received from her fans for the WTA Rising Stars invitational competition held in Singapore.


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[12] There, Dïas lost all three matches he played.


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[13] In November 2014, Dïas was one of four WTA Rookie of the Year nominees, eventually receiving the second most fan votes.


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[14] [15] Dïas finished the season ranked 34th on the WTA World List.


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[1] Dias started the 2015 season by participating in the WTA Tournament in Shenzhen.


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Zarïna Dïas

There, she advanced to the quarterfinals where she lost in three sets to Zheng Saisai.


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At the tournament in Hobart, she lost in the quarterfinals to Alison Riske.


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At the Australian Open, Dïas advanced to the third round where lost to Marija Šarapova.


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In Dubai, as well as Indian Wells, he qualified for the third round.


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At the French Open, she lost in the second round to Alison Van Uytvanck.


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[1] At Wimbledon, Dïas advanced to the fourth round like last year, where she lost to Marija Šarapova.


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[16] [17] In the North American tournaments, she lost in all five tournaments she played in the opening round, including the United States Open, where she lost to Polona Hercog.


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The same spending continued for him in the final four tournaments in September/October, where he achieved only one victory.


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Dïas was ranked 52nd on the world list at the conclusion of the season.


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[1] Vicious excerpts continue, declining list ranking (2016—) Dïas started the 2016 season with the tournament in Shenzhen, where she lost in the true round to Kateřina Siniaková, ranked number 102 in the world list.


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In Hobart and the Australian Open, his games ended in the opening round.


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At the Miami tournament played in March, she made it beyond the second round for a long time as she advanced to the third round, where she lost to Serena Williams.


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Zarïna Dïas

In May, she played in two ITF tournaments, losing in them to those who were ranked 154 and 124 in the world list, respectively, in the quarterfinals and semi-finals.


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[1] At the French Open, Dïas made it to the second round, where lost to Simona Halep.


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[18] In 2017, Dïas achieved her first singles WTA tournament win at the Japanese Open in Tokyo.


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[1] Fed Cup Dïas first played for the Kazakhstan Fed Cup team in 2009.


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He has played in eight country matches and won all six of the singles titles he played.


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[19] Style of play Dïas considers his strengths include powerful pitching as well as palm batting.


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[2] Private life Dïas' mother, Aida Aubelova, lives in Kazakhstan, and her younger sister, Alisa, studies in England.


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[3] [1] Dïas moved in 2013 to Canton, China.


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[7] ITF tournament wins [1] [20] Singles (5) Sources on the topic elsewhere at the Women's Tennis Association at the International Tennis Federation Category:79.35 Tennis Class:Kazakh tennis players Category:Born in 1993 Category:Living persons


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (; usually V.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

I. Lenin), from the original name Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, () (22 April (J: 10 April) 1870 Simbirsk — 21 January 1924, Gorky) was a Russian revolutionary, leader of the Bolshevik Party and founder of Leninist ideology.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

The name Lenin was originally one of Vladimir Ulyanov's revolutionary pseudonyms, [1] which according to one explanation is a variant of the Siberian Lena River.


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Vladimir Lenin

[2] Early years Lenin's father Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov (1831—1886) was a Russian civil servant.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

From his world of thought, he was libertarian and served as his goal the promotion of democracy in Russia and, for example, free universal education.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

The genus was originally called Ulyanin and in background according to some sources Mordavian [3] [4], some sources claim Chuvassi [5].


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

Lenin's mother, Maria Aleksandrovna Blank (1835—1916), was also known as a libertarian.


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Through the mother, in Lenin's ancestry, German blood heritage can be found on the maternal side of the mother, the mother father, in turn, was Alexander Blank, a Jew who converted to Christianity.


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In addition, Lenin is said to have had a Kalmuk or Kyrgyz pedigree on his paternal side and his mother's maternal mother was of Swedish ancestry that migrated to Peter.


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[5] [4] Lenin's father died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1886 when Lenin was only sixteen years old.


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Lenin was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.


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At the age of 16, however, he converted to atheist after becoming acquainted with 18th-century Enlightenment philosophy.


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Lenin's interest in Enlightenment information theory was evident in his later works.


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[6] Studies and Political Awakening In May 1887, Lenin's eldest brother, Aleksandr, who was involved in the narodnik movement, was hanged for taking part in an assassination attempt on Emperor Alexander III.


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This caused Lenin to become radicalised, and after taking part in student protests, he was arrested and expelled still that same year from Kazan University.


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Lenin continued to study independently, learning five foreign languages, Latin, Greek, German, French and English, among others.


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[7] In 1891 he obtained the right to act as a lawyer.


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Lenin, however, did not stay on for a career in law, but joined revolutionary activities and ran Marxist study clubs, concentrating their activities in Saint Petersburg for the most part.


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As a result of his revolutionary activities, he was arrested on 7 December 1895 and held by the authorities for a year.


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He was then deported for three years to Siberia to the village of Šušensko in Yeniseisk Governorate.


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There, the deportees were allowed quite peacefully to continue their literary works and enter into cooperative relations with each other.


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[8] Šušenskoje was also exiled by Finnish revolutionary Oskar Engberg, with whom Lenin became friends.


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In the deportation period of July 10 of 1898, Lenin married socialist activist Nadežda Krupskaya.


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[9] In 1899 he published a work on The Development of Capitalism in Russia.


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The book was published under the pseudonym Vladimir Iljin.


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The work dealt comprehensively with the national economy of the Empire, largely drawing on the views of Georgi Plekhanov, the founder of Russian Marxism.


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[10] In 1900, Lenin's deportation sentence ended.


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He traveled in Russia and then travelled to Zurich, Switzerland, where he met Georgi Plekhanov.


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With this and Aleksandr Potresov, he planned to establish the magazine Iskra.


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After founding the magazine, Lenin travelled to Nuremberg, Germany, to negotiate with his friends belonging to the Social Democratic Party of Germany.


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The following autumn he spent in Munich editing the magazine Iskra, the first editions of which were small, amounting to a few hundred copies.


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Iskra magazines were smuggled across the German, Austrian and Turkish borders into Russia.


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[11] [12] Lenin's wife Nadežda Krupskaya arrived in Munich on 1 April 1901 and Nadežda's mother Yelizaveta Vasilyevna in May 1901.


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Nadežda took care of Iskra's correspondence and Yelizaveta Vasilyevna assisted in writing letters in secret language.


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[13] Lenin moved the 1902 editorial staff of Iskra magazine from Munich to London after noticing their actions were being monitored by the Bavarian police.


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[14] In the autumn of 1902, Lev Trotski, who fled Siberia, met Lenin in London and Lenin suggested him to be a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Iskra”, following Georgi Plekhanov's objection to this.


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[15] Juli Martov, a member of the editorial board of Iskra magazine, proposed at the Second Assembly to move the editorial staff of the magazine to Geneva in Switzerland due to Georgi Plekhanov.


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Lenin voted against this proposal, with all the other members supporting it.


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In April 1903, the editorial staff of Iskra magazine moved to Geneva.


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The genesis of the Bolshevik Party, Lenin rose to an influential position within the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party.


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Between 1901 and 1902, Lenin wrote a book entitled What Must Be Done, which dealt with a pure-docile Marxist view of the party's organisational problems.


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This book he wrote under the pseudonym N. Lenin, by which he was known ever since.


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The book received a highly mixed reception in Marxist circles.


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The book became a political classic of the 20th century and has been said to have led to the controversy that allowed the Communist Party to emerge.


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[16] [17] The organizing committee of the Assembly, established in March 1902, decided, with Lenin as one to decide which groups in Europe and Russia were allowed to participate in the second Belgian assembly of the party in Brussels.


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Lenin had arranged for Iskra delegates to the Assembly a majority.


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[18] The assembly was begun on 17 July 1903, but due to inconvenience caused by the Belgian police, the meeting was moved to England, London, where the meeting was held at the Church of the Brotherhood on 30 July 1902 and continued still at the English Club in Charlotte Street.


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The meeting dealt with the party's programme, the agra issue, and party rules.


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The debates over the leadership of the party ended with the victory of Lenin and Plekhanov's vision, causing representatives of the Bund and other factions to march out of the meeting.


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Lenin referred to his victorious group as the Majority, or Bolsheviks, and the losing Juli Martov group as the Minorities, or Mensheviks.


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[19] At this meeting, the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia was established, Gleb Krzizanovski, F.


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V. Lengnik and V.


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A. Noskov.


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The editorial council of Iskra magazine now had only Juli Martov, Lenin and Georgi Plekhanov instead of the former seven members.


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At the Assembly of the Foreign Union of Russian Socialists held in Geneva in October 1903, after Juli Mortov attacked Lenin, Georgi Plekhanov switched to the side of Juli Mortov and the Mensheviks.


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Axelrod and Martov accused Lenin of seeking to make the party a force of generals without an army.


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[20] The Bolsheviks now became a minority, Lenin resigned from Iskra and the party council.


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[21] Lenin founded Vperyod magazine (Forward) together with Anatoly Lunatsarsky and Bogdanov.


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On December 22, 1904, the magazine began its appearance.


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[22] In 1903, Lenin headed the Bolshevik section following its separation from the Mensheviks.


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[23] This division was largely due to Lenin's pamphlet What is to be done?.


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The party should be limited exclusively to professional revolutionaries, Lenin wanted the other working people and sympathetic idealists out of the party.


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The party should also be made tightly centralist in order to be capable of revolution.


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[24] [25] Lenin had noticed that the workers themselves did not have the common will demanded by the revolution, because under capitalism their conditions had improved slightly.


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Lenin admitted this was not due to capitalism but to the colonies (imperialism) and said the improvement in conditions was a form of bribery of workers.


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Later, Lenin was also persuaded by Lev Trotsky that instead of working people, the repeal would only succeed from the professional revolutionaries, resulting in Trotsky, who remained with the Mensheviks, eventually switched sides.


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[26] The Mensheviks operated more by the law of Western European parties, while the Bolsheviks were a fighting organization that sought to overthrow the Tsarist power through terror, among other things.


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The most prominent leaders of the Mensheviks were Juli Martov, Georgi Plekhanov and Vera Zasulich.


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The Bolsheviks were later joined by many of the former Mensheviks including Lev Trotski, whose skills contributed to the success of the October Revolution, and Aleksandra Kollontai.


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[27] The Mensheviks kept party membership open and also cooperated with other parties and its members later even ended up in another interim government headed by Aleksandr Kerensky.


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[28] Lenin was in Genve from late 1904 to early 1905.


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[29] Russia had started a war against Japan in 1904 and the war had turned to a loss at the end of the year.


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Eserrie had been murdered by Home Secretary V.


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K. Plehwen in the summer of 1904.


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[30] On 9 January 1905, St. Petersburg workers marched under priest Georgi Gapon to take a supplication to the Winter Palace to Emperor Nicholas II to convene the Legislative Assembly.


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Among other things, the petition envisaged bringing about the Progressive Income Tax and Labor Protection Act legislation and ending the Russo-Japanese War.


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In front of the marchers marched Orthodox Church priest Georgi Gapon.


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Upon reaching near the Winter Palace, they were instructed to disperse, but continued their march, and soldiers opened fire, killing dozens of people.


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Every part of Russia began to strike and riots arose.


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[31] The Bolshevik Central Committee convened the Third Assembly in 1905.


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The Mensheviks; Plekhanov, Yuri Martov and other Iskrans who did not agree to attend the London meeting met in Geneva.


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The London meeting was attended by Bolsheviks and a few Menshevik delegates.


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The meeting was initiated on 12 April 1905 in a secret chamber, the place of which is unknown, with Lenin expressing strident opinions during the meetings, leading the Mensheviks to say Lenin had betrayed Marxism.


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Lenin insisted that the party should take advantage of the revolutionary situation that has arisen and the party must therefore change its policies.


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[32] Lenin travelled with Nadežda Krupskaya from Geneva via Germany to Stockholm, from where they travelled by steamship to Helsinki, arriving by train in Saint Petersburg on 8 November 1905.


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During his time in St. Petersburg, Lenin wrote newspaper articles and maintained contacts with his fellow party members, visiting to speak at party events and people's assemblies.


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Lenin, among other things, urged Bolshevik departments to take active action.


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[33] In December 1905, the Social Democratic Labour Party held a party conference in Tampere, where Lenin and Stalin met each other for the first time.


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After the Russian Revolution of 1905 in December in Moscow, an armed coup attempt by the Bolsheviks failed and Lenin was forced to go into exile in Finland for security reasons in 1907.


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Lenin lived several times in Finland thereafter and travelled in Europe, attending various socialist meetings and other activities.


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[34] Lenin began collaborating with the Mensheviks.


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The Mensheviks opposed many of Lenin's views, but Lenin supported their proposal to participate in the electoral campaign in the Caucasus.


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The party's central committee now included seven Mensheviks and three Bolsheviks, but Lenin was not among them.


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The Bolshevik group established a secret Bolshevik centre, of which Lenin, Bogdanov and Leonid Krasinin were elected as members.


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[35] On the Finnish side of Kuokkala, the Bolshevik group established their base in the large two-storey Villa Vasa villa, where Lenin and a few other Bolsheviks worked for 15 months.


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From Kuokkala, Lenin traveled to important meetings held in Finland and London, as well as in Stuttgart, Russia Lenin no longer travelled until 1917.


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[36] [37] Lenin had achieved his political goals for the Mensheviks and ceased cooperation in 1907.


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[38] From Kuokkala, Lenin and other Bolsheviks were forced to leave in June 1907, a new Bolshevik center was established in Paris.


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[39] February Revolution The humiliations and shortages of the First World War brought the tsarist power to the bottom of its popularity.


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Yet as recently as January 1917, Lenin estimated that the tsar power would not be overthrown in his lifetime.


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[40] [41] In the February Revolution of 1917, the Duma took power in its hands and installed a provisional government.


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It was led by Prince Georgi Lvov of the Liberal Democratic Cadet Party and nine other ministers of the Cadet Party due to the liberal majority in the Duma.


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[42] Since the Petrograd Council was already as significant, or more significant, a centre of power than the government, the Council's second-in-command, Aleksandr Kerenski of the Socialist Revolutionaries, was included in the government as the sole socialist.


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The Provisional Government gave human rights to the people, abolished censorship and the death penalty, and released political prisoners but did not bend to German peace terms, where all parties, down to socialist ones, supported it.


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However, the people were still extremely dissatisfied with the continuing war, which over the months took away the government's favour.


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[43] Back to Russia 1917, the German government saw its opportunity and sent Lenin through Finland to Russia to make a revolution so that the country would break away from the war.


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With permission from the German government, Lenin was able to travel from Switzerland in a “sealed train” through Germany to Sweden and from there on to Finland.


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[44] Despite “sealing” in July, SR's Kerenski, who received the Prime Minister's seat from the Liberals, later claimed Lenin as an agent for the Germans.


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[45] [46] On 16 April 1917, Lenin arrived in Saint Petersburg (at that time Petrograd) at the Finnish Station and took command of the Bolshevik movement, berating the Pravda journalists Lev Kamenev and Josif Stalin, who supported the Provisional Government.


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Lenin positioned himself in the April Theses to support Soviet rule, although the Bolsheviks did not yet have significant power in the councils.


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[47] October Revolution The Bolsheviks already attempted a coup d'état under Trotsky's plans in July, but the attempt failed.


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At that time, rumours circulated within the machine-gun company supporting the Bolsheviks that the unit would be moved to the front against Germany.


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The regimental assembly urged the soldiers to revolt and the Matruses moved on to ships and set out to take control of Petersburg.


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The force headed for the Bolshevik headquarters at Krzezińska Palace, where Lenin was required to take the leadership.


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On the way to the Tauria Palace to demand the Council take control, Viktor Chernov, the leader of the SR, was met, who was being taken to be shot, but Trotsky had him rescued.


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Eventually, troops from the front laid siege to Krzezińska Palace and the Provisional Government ordered the Bolshevik leaders Lenin, Trotsky, Zinovyev, Kamenev and Lunazharski arrested.


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[48] The Liberals soon withdrew from the government and it remained to the Socialists with Kerensky in charge.


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With the failure of the invasion planned by Kerenski and the loss of one hundred thousand men by the army, the position of the Provisional Government was further weakened.


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Kerenski feared that accusations against the Bolsheviks would strengthen the right, and the Bolshevik newspapers were allowed to continue appearing, and the Red Guards were not disarmed.


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[49] Commander-in-Chief Lavr Kornilov demanded full powers to restore order and prevent a Bolshevik capture and sent Krymov's cavalry army corps to Saint Petersburg.


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The provisional government interpreted this as a rebellion and Kerenski asked for help from “all democratic forces”, including the Bolsheviks.


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The Bolsheviks were allowed to arm their Red Guards and the matruses of the armoured canister cruiser Aurora were called in to defend the Winter Palace.


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After the Kornilov rebellion, Bolsheviks began to be released from prisons and the leaders returned, except for Lenin, who was hiding in Finland.


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[50] In September, Lenin sent letters announcing that the moment of the uprising had come.


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The provisional government experienced its last defeats as the Germans occupied the Baltic islands, and Kronstadt and Peter were preparing for the attack and the evacuation of the city was being prepared.


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The palaces of the Grand Dukes began to be looted and rebellion was already widely spoken of.


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Trotsky was named president of the St. Petersburg Council.


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An armed clash ensued between the garrison and the government as the government sought to move the unreliable troops to the front.


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[51] The Bolsheviks started a revolt under Trotsky's leadership.


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Its centre was the former Institute of Noble Maidens in Smolna.


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The hijacking proceeded discreetly, encountering no resistance whatsoever.


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The force of perpetrators was quite small, among them some thousands of garrison soldiers and some hundreds of Bolsheviks, but the Kerensky government had become so weak that opposition was nonexistent and the subversion actually bloodless.


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Overnight, Lenin convened a central committee to form a government.


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Ministers were appointed People's Commissars on the model of the Great French Revolution.


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Lenin proposed Trotsky as chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, but this was refused, among other things, because of his Jewishness and Lenin took the position.


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For Trotsky came foreign affairs.


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[52] On the same evening, the Second Pan-Russian Assembly of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils began in the Smolna Ballroom.


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Trotsky declared the Provisional Government had ceased to exist and the Lenin Workers' and Peasants' Revolution had won.


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In the meantime, the provisional government was still sitting in the Winter Palace, from where Kerenski fled to the front in search of reinforcements.


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The defenders of the Winter Palace quietly went away, and at last a single shot was fired from the Aurora cannon and the Winter Palace was overrun and the ministers were hurtled into the Peter — Paul Fortress.


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[45] [53] With the leadership of Soviet-Russia, the Bolshevik Party blessed the land distributions made by many village communities already in the summer of 1917, but in a couple of months it stripped power from the councils, trade unions, socialist parties, block committees and others, which had independently fought against the old power.


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In December, extensive strikes against the Bolsheviks ensued.


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Lenin set up the secret police of the Czech Republic on 20 December 1917 to pursue “opponents of the revolution”.


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[54] On November 8, 1917, Lenin was elected Speaker of the Council of People's Commissars, or leader of Soviet-Russia.


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Lenin wanted to make immediate peace with the Germans, while many other Bolsheviks judged the war to lead to revolution in Germany too, and Lenin did not win approval for Germany's strict peace terms until Germany took over the Baltics and drew closer to Saint Petersburg.


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In the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918, Soviet-Russia gave up the Baltic states, its territories in Poland, Ukraine and Finland.


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[55] [56] Lenin bans other parties in the elections to the Constituent National Assembly held on 25 November 1917, the Bolsheviks received only 25% of the vote.


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The Socialist-Revolutionary Party (SR) emerged as the largest party, receiving about 40% of the vote.


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However, the left wing of the SR party, or Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, were allied with the Bolsheviks and Lenin sent the Matruses who supported the Bolsheviks to close the Constituent Assembly on 19 January 1918.


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[57] Instead of a Constitutional Assembly, the Bolsheviks declared their government accountable to the councils (“sovjet”), in whose assembly Bolsheviks and Left-SRs gained a majority of over 90%.


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The Bolsheviks formed a government together with the Left-SRs who supported them, but subsequently dissatisfied with the Peace Treaty (3 March 1918), the Left-SR:S began to oppose the Bolsheviks.


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[58] In an effort by all non-Bolshevik groups (socialist and non-socialist) to counter Bolshevik power aspirations, Lenin imprisoned or shot their members as well as disbanded organizations.


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In July, the Left-SR:S Jakov Bljumkin assassinated the German envoy, Count von Mirbach, with the intention of restarting the war against Germany.


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On the same occasion, the party staged a revolt in Moscow, where the government had relocated.


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On 30 August, the SRs assassinated Bolshevik leaders Moisei Uritsky and V.


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Volodarsky.


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[59] An assassination attempt on August 30, 1918, Lenin was shot three times by socialist revolutionary Faina Kaplan; this wounded but improved.


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The incident may still have contributed to the subsequent deterioration of Lenin's health.


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[60] Kaplan, who belonged to the Left-SRs, had served life imprisonment 1906—1917 for the attempted assassination of a Tsarist official.


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He was a supporter of the Constitutional Assembly and regarded Lenin as a traitor to the revolution.


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It is estimated that Kaplan acted on his own initiative.


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[61] Even under interrogation by the Czech Republic, Kaplan refused to reveal his accomplices, so he was shot on 3 September 1918.


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On the same day, in the Izvestiya magazine, the Bolsheviks demanded to “crush the hydra of the counter-revolution with massive terror”, and on September 5, the Czech Republic, led by Polish Feliks Dzerzhinsky, issued an order for “red terror.” In the following months, 800 SR and other opponents of the trial were also executed.


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Over time the numbers only went up, even the official figures spoke of thousands, some estimates of 200,000 victims.


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The Socialist-Revolutionary Party was banned.


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The Mensheviks were allowed to resume operations in November after pledging to remain loyally in the opposition.


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[62] Civil War The Russian Civil War broke out in a way in May—June 1918, six months after the revolution, initially in cities along the Volga between the councils supporting the Bolsheviks and the Czechoslovak Legion assembled from Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war.


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The fighting encouraged the SR opposition to set up a committee in Samara for the Saving of the Constitutional Assembly (Комуч).


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This prompted the Bolsheviks to expel the SRs and Mensheviks from local councils.


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In turn, the Cadet Party convened in July 1918 in Omsk, establishing the Siberian Provisional Government.


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These parties even allied themselves in Ufa in September, but Admiral Kolchak declared himself supreme leader and expelled the Socialists.


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[63] In actual terms, the Civil War is considered to have broken out in March 1919.


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White armies made up of mixed groups (including those supporting the Tsarist power, Cossacks) fought against the Red Army, supported by Western powers.


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The White Guard initially achieved significant success, but by early 1920 the Red Army had virtually defeated the Whites and the war was largely over, though with Pyotr Wrangel's forces in Crimea the Red Army could not reach the end of the year.


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The 1919 victories in the civil war had prompted the Red Army to attack Poland, which had conquered Ukraine, with the intention of reaching as far as Germany.


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Former Emperor Nicholas II was executed and his family in July 1918 in Yekaterinburg with Lenin certainly aware of the order.


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[64] Lenin claimed capitalism was linked to imperialism and in 1917 declared unlimited sovereignty for all peoples and minorities.


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However, when after the civil war he had the strength to limit it, he also did so and conquered the independents of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.


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[65] The radical transition to socialism, the Tsarist reign of terror had formally executed 3932 people between 1825 and 1917 through legal trials in which “defence lawyers had at least the same amount of speaking power as the prosecutors”.


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Under Lenin, the Bolsheviks exceeded this number in four months (by March 1918).


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[66] However, it should be noted that most of the people killed by the Tsars never came to official knowledge.


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[65] The Bolsheviks violently attacked the opposition, and Lenin did not prevent the execution of numerous executions.


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[67] After the February Revolution, the Liberal Provisional Government had abolished capital punishment, released political prisoners and declared freedoms of speech, printing and assembly.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

However, these freedoms were of no use to the people in the squalid conditions created by prolonged war and famine.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

After the revolution, Lenin saw no reason to restore these rights, as it could have harmed the young communist regime.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

He is reported to have intended to restore these rights at a later date when conditions have leveled and socialism materialised at will.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

[68] Russia, under the leadership of the tsar, had fought a war in which more than a million Russians had fallen in the preceding three years.


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Vladimir Lenin

Most of those killed were forced recruited rowmen, used in World War I battles mainly as cannon fodder.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

Civilian losses caused directly and indirectly by the war, which have not been reliably statised, were also not negligible.


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Vladimir Lenin

Despite its liberal domestic political line, the Provisional Government sought to continue this same war effort during 1917.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

The final nail in this coffin was the miserably unsuccessful summer of 1917 and the lives of up to 400,000 Russians claimed by the invasion of Kerensk, as a result of which the Russian army practically collapsed.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

Opposing the war was Lenin's main goals, and he wanted to end it as soon as possible.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

[69] Lenin was very harsh on his opponents.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

Even in his speeches before the revolution, he had vowed to destroy the bourgeoisie class altogether.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

For this reason, he meticulously intervened in countless details of persecutions, as evidence of which his numerous letters have survived.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

For example, in his letter on August 10, 1918, Lenin wrote: In support of this, Lenin commanded to exclude “kulaks” (peasants), priests and burghers into concentration camps on the basis of social class or profession, regardless of their actions.


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Vladimir Lenin

[70] An instruction from the Czech Republic of 1 November 1918 read: Lenin wrote in 1917: Discontent leads to revolts Soviet-Russian leadership began a radical transition to socialism on 13 May 1918 by forming huge command municipalities to confiscate the extras of the peasants foods.


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Vladimir Lenin

Members of the commanding municipalities received a portion for themselves as a reward, plus money.


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Vladimir Lenin

Thus, incentives were taken away from the peasants.


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Vladimir Lenin

This did not prove to be a good solution, as food production collapsed and food shortages worsened further.


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Vladimir Lenin

[71] There was no satisfaction among the people with the way socialism was implemented.


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Vladimir Lenin

Shortage, economic collapse and hunger prompted countless revolts of peasants, sailors and even laborers across the country, occasionally with hay pitchforks and spears against cannons and machine guns.


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Vladimir Lenin

[72] The uprisings were suppressed by, among other things, shooting protesters, declaring lockouts against striking workers and arresting them and opposition activists, bombing and burning villages, using chemical weapons and hanging suspects, and closing dozens thousands of rebel family members held hostage to concentration camps (mainly women, children and the elderly).


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Vladimir Lenin

[73] Lenin himself said the mistreatment of the innocent bothered him, but did not interfere in these matters.


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Vladimir Lenin

For him was the most important goal and he gave orders separately to destroy opposition demonstrations.


Question: What country was Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin

For example, about the most famous of the peasants, namely the Tambov Revolt (where there had been calls for the abolition of confiscations and the Czech Republic, free elections and freedom of trade), Lenin wrote to the Czech Republic: This movement must be crushed as soon as possible and in such a way as to make an example as possible clear.


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Vladimir Lenin

[74] These participants in the rebellion were clearly harmful to the construction of socialism and representatives of the opposition.


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Vladimir Lenin

An army of over 30,000 men led by General Mikhail Tuhachevsky took two years (1919—21) to destroy the resistance despite superior armament and brutal grip.


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Vladimir Lenin

The concentration camps of the Tambov rebellion held 50,000 “hostages” et al and the death rate was 15— 20% per month.


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Vladimir Lenin

Although the Tambov Rebellion had also arisen spontaneously, unlike other uprisings it was orchestrated as systematic by SR's former active Aleksandr Antonov.


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Vladimir Lenin

[75] Famine The radical transition to socialism scuppered the country's economy, and in 1921 the Great Famine arose.