Kalevanrinne is a district of

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

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. It is located in the Sampo area between the districts of Kaleva and Järvensivu, bordering Liisankallio and Kalevanharju in the west, Hakametsä and Vuohenoja in the east. The city plan of Kalevanrinne was confirmed in 1951 and supplemented in 1955 and 1960.Maija Louhivaara: ''Tampereen kadunnimet'', s. 92. Tampereen museoiden julkaisuja 51, 1999. (in Finnish) Kalevanrinne has a

hypermarket A hypermarket or superstore is a big-box store combining a supermarket and a department store. The result is an expansive retail facility carrying a wide range of products under one roof, including full grocery lines and general merchandise. In ...

Prisma, a pet store Musti ja Mirri and an electronics store Gigantti. There are also 13 planned apartment buildings in the area, which means that the Kalevanrinne

residential area A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residen ...

, located between Kalevantie and

Sammonkatu Sammonkatu is a wide park street in the Kaleva district in Tampere, Finland. It starts at the intersection of Itsenäisyydenkatu (formerly known as ''Puolimatkankatu'') and Teiskontie (formerly ''Teiskonkatu''). The street is part of Kaleva' ...

, is planned to have about 1,360 inhabitants. The planned area is about 3,5 hectares in size. Kalevanrinne was once known in 1918 as the location of a prison camp for red prisoners during the

Finnish Civil War The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between Whites (Finland), White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Red Finland) during the country's transition fr ...

.IS: Tampere saa uuden asuinalueen huippupaikalle – entisen punavankileirin viereen tulossa 13 kerrostaloa
(in Finnish)

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– City of Tampere (in Finnish) Sampo {{WesternFinland-geo-stub