Porkkala Parenthesis - Friggesby airport Traditional Geocache
Dencku: Kätkölle ei ole löytynyt uutta piilopaikkaa joten tämä arkistoidaan.
Porkkala Parenthesis - Friggesby airport
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Maanomistaja on antanut luvan käyttää tietä joka johta kätkölle asti.
The parenthesis is the name of the period between 28th September 1944 and 26th January 1956, when the Porkkala area was leased to the Soviet Union as a naval base. This meant that the people that leaved in this area in 1944 were forced to leave. They were given nine days to pack everything that they owned and move away. The area that was to be leased was 2/3 of Kirkonummi, the southern parts of Siuntio, entire Degerby and parts of Inkoo.
It was decided that Porkkala was to be leased for fifty years. The Finnish state paid the farmers and house owners compensation for their lost property. The state demanded repayment of the compensation when the evacuees moved back in 1956.
This is the first cache of a series that I will call “Porkkala parenthesis”.
The cache is hidden in the south end of the former airport.
You will find this cache in a place were Russian prisoners were forced to manufacture gravel with only hammers and chisels. There are still piles of gravel left.
The fields in the north of you the Russians used as airport. The airport was about 2200 meters long and covered with steel rashers and sand. About 1000 meters north from the cache hide on the western side of the fields you will find some airplane shelters that the Russians built. Now days they are in the forest.
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Pbeare, oruvaq gur fgbar