| Amuri's history dates back to the founding of Tampere in 1779. The burgesses in the town were given plantations for cultivation on the western edge of the new town. From the mid 1800's strong industrialisation brought new citizens to the town. The newcomers needed somewhere to live, so the burgesses had to give up their cultivation and pasturelands. At about the same time immigrants travelled to Amur province in Siberia. people in Tampere named their own colony area Amuri after the distant prototype. |  |
| Amuri grew at the same time as the industrialisation on the shores of the Tammerkoski rapids. At the turn of the 1900's there were about five thousand people living in the wooden housing quarters. A speciality of these houses was the kitchen system. A typical communal kitchen stove had four separate fireplaces so that four housewives could make their coffee and porridge at the same time. Normally there were four chambers around the kitchen, one for each family. The owner of the house usually had a couple of chambers at their disposal. There was a stable and an outside lavatory in the yard. Water pipes and sewers were already fitted in Amuri by 1895. Water was collected from the outer wall of the house and returned to the "hold". There were several public saunas in Amuri. People ventured into town only for a specific reason. All the necessities of life could be obtained from the co-ops in the area or from the Mustalahti marketplace. | 
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