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Born in Turku, Harry Larva was forced to change his last name from Lagerström to Larva in 1928 by a young president of Finnish Athletics Union and known nationalist, Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, because his name did not sound sufficiently Finnish.

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After the defection Golitsyn claimed also that the President of Finland Urho Kaleva Kekkonen was a KGB-agent codenamed " Timo " since 1947.

Later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the term has been used in Finland for the post-1968 radicalization in the latter half of the Urho Kekkonen era.

Both armies used child soldiers, mainly between 14 and 17 years of age, the most famous example being Urho Kekkonen who fought for the White Army and later became the longest-serving President of Finland.

A graffiti in Pieksämäki representing the former President of Finland, Urho Kekkonen, who is well recognised in Finnish popular culture.

The CSCE was widely considered in Finland as a possible means of reducing tensions of the Cold War, and a personal triumph for President Urho Kekkonen.

Voroshilov with Nikita Khrushchev and Finnish president Urho Kekkonen in 1960

In 1952, Nurmi was persuaded by Urho Kekkonen, Prime Minister of Finland and former chairman of the Finnish Athletics Federation, to carry the Olympic torch into the Olympic Stadium at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

In 1964, Nevanlinna's connections with President Urho Kekkonen were instrumental in bringing about a total reorganization of the Academy of Finland.

* 1900 – Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician, 8th President of Finland ( d. 1986 )

Later she became the Vice-President of the committee, which lobbied then-President Urho Kekkonen.

Urho Kekkonen ( left ), Sylvi Kekkonen ( second right ), John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961.

In 1979 Urho Kekkonen was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.

* The Urho Kekkonen National Park, Finland's second largest national park, is named after Kekkonen.

* The Urho Kekkonen museum was opened in Tamminiemi in 1987.

* In Helsinki, the former Kampinkatu ( Kamppi Street ) was renamed Urho Kekkosen katu ( Urho Kekkonen Street ) in 1980.

The silver collector coin that pays homage to Urho Kekkonen, the longest-serving Finnish president, was issued in 1981, when he had served 25 years as the president.

** Name: 60th birthday of President Urho Kekkonen, issued: 03. 09. 1960, designed by Olavi Vepsäläinen

* List of state visits made by President Urho Kekkonen of Finland

* Urho Kekkonen Museum, Tamminiemi, Helsinki

* The Archives of President Urho Kekkonen

* Urho Kekkonen National Park

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* September 3 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland ( d. 1986 )

When president Urho Kekkonen resigned in 1981 due to a serious illness, he stayed in the then official residence Tamminiemi until his death in 1986.

In the presidential elections of 1956 Fagerholm got one elector's vote less than needed to be elected ( 149 votes ), and Urho Kekkonen was elected ( 151 ).

Finnish historians, political scientists and journalists still debate whether President Kekkonen really wanted to dismiss Prime Minister Koivisto or whether Kekkonen wanted to speed up Koivisto's slow and ponderous decision-making or whether this government crisis was just a part of the ruthless " presidential game " that top politicians, such as Koivisto, Foreign Minister Väyrynen, Social Democratic Chairman Sorsa, acting Governor of the Bank of Finland Karjalainen, and Parliamentary Speaker Virolainen, were playing ( see, for example, Pekka Hyvärinen, " Finland's Man: Urho Kekkonen's Life " / Suomen mies.

Salama was sentenced to three months in prison but placed on probation, before subsequently being pardoned by President Urho Kekkonen.

At the Federation's 62nd general conference held in Helsinki, Finland, Beregovoy was awarded the first Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal for achievements in space ; Finnish President Urho Kekkonen was the honorary presenter on July 14, 1968.

Since 1956, the year when Urho Kekkonen was elected President, the party has been nearly continuously in the government.

* In 1956 the Swedish-speaking Social Democrat Fagerholm got one elector's vote less than needed to be elected, and the Agrarian Urho Kekkonen was elected.

He was known also as President Urho Kekkonen's right-hand man.

His father Sakari Tuomioja was a prominent liberal Finnish politician and diplomat, and the challenger of Urho Kekkonen for the conservatives and liberals in the 1956 presidential elections.

Urho Kekkonen was the President of Finland from 1956-1982 and became a symbolic figure of a statesman in Finland.

In 1956, Urho Kekkonen, the candidate of the Agrarian League, was elected President of Finland, after serving as Prime Minister several times.

The country's longest-serving president, Urho Kekkonen, was from the party, as were two other presidents.

The last mention of him in any major Soviet media was his meeting with Urho Kekkonen, the President of Finland.

Urho Kekkonen, a former President of Finland who ruled the country over two decades, was born in Pielavesi.

One of Suomalainen's most favourite characters was Urho Kekkonen, whom he drew as a bald man with an angular chin and huge eyeglasses.