Tyrjän taistelun muistomerkki

Period: Continuation War
Category: Memorial
Location accuracy: Approximate area

Dated from the museum's caption: Tyrjän taistelun muistomerkki (source)

A memorial related to the wars. Memorial designed by Taisto Ahtola. Unveiled 1991.

Access and getting there

Parikkalantien ja Vierevintien risteyksessä. Muistopaikka — käyttäydy kunnioittavasti.

Related photographs

Photographs of the same subject from the same municipality. They do not show this site — each caption says what it actually shows.

What happened here

Battles, troop movements and military operations recorded near this site.

19 October 1939
Sjuna 3:n keskittäminen.
Troop movement · Parikkala · 2,7 km

Recorded casualties in the area

Parikkala: 391

The recorded place of death is usually a parish or village rather than an exact point, so the figure describes the area around the site. Names of the fallen are not shown.

Sotasampo · Kansallisarkisto, menehtyneet 1939–1945

Archive photographs nearby

Wartime photographs taken near this site.

Photographs: SA-kuva, CC BY 4.0.

Nearby

One site is rarely a trip on its own. These are the closest others.

Sources, licences and accuracy

Location accuracy: Approximate area

Verification: 2026-07-31 (remote)

Wikipedia — Luettelo Parikkalan julkisista taideteoksista ja muistomerkeistä (CC BY-SA 4.0)