Central Helsinki and southern end of Mannerheimintie#
Central Helsinki and southern end of Mannerheimintie, seen from Erottaja Fire Station.
Photo: Otso Kivekäs in: Wikicommons, under CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Otso Kivekäs in: Wikicommons, under CC BY-SA 3.0
Mannerheimintie, Mannerheimstreet, is named after Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951).
He was a Finnish military leader and statesman and served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Regent of Finland (1918–1919), commander-in-chief of Finland's defence forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and the sixth president of Finland (1944–1946).