Estonian President Lennart Meri named his wolfhound in honor of Rust.

There are numerous legends related to the crater ; these are summarized by Lennart Meri in his book Hõbevalge.

Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (), formerly Ülemiste Airport is the largest airport in Estonia and home base of the national airline Estonian Air.

Since March 29, 2009 the airport is officially known as Lennart Meri Tallinn International Airport, in honour of the leader of the Estonian independence movement and second President of Estonia Lennart Meri.

After the death of former president of Estonia Lennart Meri on 14 March 2006, journalist Argo Ideon from Eesti Ekspress proposed to honor the president's memory by naming Tallinn Airport after him – "" ( Lennart Meri International Airport ), drawing parallels with JFK Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Istanbul-Atatürk Airport etc.

* March 29 – Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia ( d. 2006 )

* October 6 – Lennart Meri becomes the first president of newly independent Estonia.

The new Estonian government fled to Stockholm, Sweden and operated in exile until 1992, when Heinrich Mark, the prime minister of the Estonian government in exile acting as president, presented his credentials to incoming president Lennart Meri.

Lennart Meri, an outstanding writer and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, won this election and became president.

After Estonia regained independence from the Soviet Union on August 20, 1991, the exiled association of the German Baltic nobility sent an official message to the president-to-be Lennart Meri that no member of the association would claim proprietary rights to their former Estonian lands.

The second round was held in the Riigikogu, whose members voted for the two leading candidates of the first round ; there, Rüütel lost to Lennart Meri.

* On 18 March 2010 a DHL Antonov An-26 aircraft made an emergency landing on the frozen Lake Ülemiste, close to Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport.

Lennart Georg Meri () ( 29 March 1929 – 14 March 2006 ) was a writer, film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001.

Lennart Meri was born in Tallinn, a son of the Estonian diplomat and later Shakespeare translator Georg Meri, and Estonian Swedish mother Alice-Brigitta Engmann.

In addition to his native Estonian, Lennart Meri fluently spoke five other languages: Finnish, French, German, English and Russian.

At the age of twelve, Lennart Meri worked as a lumberman in Siberia.

Whilst in exile, Lennart Meri grew interested in the other Uralic languages that he heard around him, the language family of which his native Estonian is also a part.

The Meri family survived and found their way back to Estonia where Lennart Meri graduated cum laude from the Faculty of History and Languages of the University of Tartu in 1953.

The movie was written by Natalie Marcin and Isobel Lennart and directed by George Sidney.

The film was adapted by Isobel Lennart from the novel of the same name by Jon Cleary and directed by Fred Zinnemann.

Credit was eventually given to Isobel Lennart rather than Cleary.

A Swedish-allied army under general Johan Baner decisively defeated a combined Imperial-Saxon army, led by Count Melchior von Hatzfeld and the Saxon Elector John George I. Baner was helped by Swedish Count Lennart Torstenson and Scottish professional soldiers Alexander Leslie, later first Earl of Leven, James King, later first Lord Eythin, and John Ruthven.

Its last mayor was Lennart Andersen, a member of the Social Democrats ( Socialdemokraterne ) political party.

It was written by Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart.

Count Anders Torstenson ( 1641 – 1686 ), Swedish statesman, son of Lennart Torstenson and member of the Privy Council, was from 1674 to 1681 Governor-General of Estonia.

The earliest quantitative analysis of pollen was published by Lennart von Post who laid out the foundations of modern pollen analysis in his Kristiania lecture of 1916.

Karl Lennart Oesch ( 8 August 1892 – 28 March 1978 ) was one of the leading Finnish generals during World War II.

In 1986, Lennart Meri was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Helsinki University.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lennart Meri ’ s first task was to create the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Lennart Meri was engaged in the work for the human rights of German refugees from Central and Eastern Europe and other victims of ethnic cleansing in Europe, and was a member of the jury of the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award, which was awarded by the Centre Against Expulsions ( Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen ).

Lennart Meri was married twice.

Lennart Meri was chosen the European of the Year in 1998 by French newspaper La Vie.

" Finnish President Tarja Halonen stated, " The Finnish nation lost in Lennart Meri a close and sincere friend and the world, a great statesman who was one of the leading architects of the post-Cold War world.

In 2009 Tallinn Airport was renamed to Lennart Meri Tallinn International Airport.

While the Persian mathematician Jamshīd al-Kāshī claimed to have discovered decimal fractions himself in the 15th century, J. Lennart Berggrenn notes that he was mistaken, as decimal fractions were first used five centuries before him by al-Uqlidisi as early as the 10th century.

Lennart styled himself Prince Lennart Bernadotte, but this usage was never recognised by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Sepp Blatter's 1998 election to the presidency of FIFA over UEFA President Lennart Johansson occurred amidst much controversy.

* Lennart Meri, portrait of a President – Baltic States City Paper

In 1991, he was a member of the Estonian Constitutional Assembly, and in 1992, he ran as a presidential candidate against Arnold Rüütel ( 3rd President of the Republic of Estonia, 2001 – 2006 ), and Lennart Meri ( 2nd President of the Republic of Estonia, 1992 – 2001 ), who won the election.

* Helle Meri ( born 1949 ), Estonian actress, First Lady of Estonia 1992 – 2001, wife of President Lennart Meri

* Lennart Meri ( 1929 – 2006 ), Estonian politician and writer, President of Estonia 1992 – 2001

The last Prime Minister in duties of the President, Heinrich Mark, handed over his credentials to the incoming President Lennart Georg Meri on 8 October 1992.

His father was Lennart Johansson, for many years President of the SKF Group ( 1971-1985 ).

* President: 1992 ( Lennart Meri ), 1996 ( Lennart Meri ), 2001 ( Arnold Rüütel ), 2006 ( Toomas Ilves ), 2011 ( Toomas Ilves )

As leader of the Estonian Coalition Party, Vähi was asked by President Lennart Meri to form a government.

Three days later, on 27 February, President Lennart Meri named Mart Siimann as the new Prime Minister.

Then in 1992 the last acting President of Estonia, Heinrich Mark, handed over his credentials to the newly elected President of the restored republic, Lennart Meri.

President Lennart Meri proposed to introduce direct elections of the President and to found a Constitutional Court on the last day of his stay in office.

This option was previously exercised by President Lennart Meri.