Huopalahti
Huopalahti is a old municipality south of the Finland, between Helsinki and Espoo. In 1903, a station is opened to 6 km of the center of Helsinki on the railway of Turku, in what is then the farming community of Helsinki (which will become later Vantaa). The station receives the name of close bay, Huopalahti. A district develops in the vicinity, and in 1919 a new east commune creates. It gathers the territory around the station of Huopalahti (current districts of Munkkiniemi, Munkkivuori and Haaga) and the majority of the islands separating Espoo from Helsinki, in particular Lauttasaari. In all a few hundreds of inhabitants, and even less when the commune of Haaga separates some in 1923. In all, Huopalahti counts only 500 inhabitants in 1930, at the beginning of the process of urbanization. The commune knows a very strong increase in its population between 1938 and 1945 and it is finally attached to Helsinki at January 1st, 1946.
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