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  1. Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also served as prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956), and held various other cabinet positions.

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  3. Urho Kekkonen - Wikipedia

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    Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also served as prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956), and held various other cabinet positions.

  4. Urho Kekkonen – Wikipedia

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    Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3. syyskuuta 1900 Pielavesi – 31. elokuuta 1986 Helsinki) oli kahdeksas Suomen tasavallan presidentti ja suomalainen poliitikko. Hän oli tasavallan istuva presidentti yhtäjaksoisesti vuodesta 1956 alkuvuoteen 1982, yli 25 vuoden ajan.

  5. Urho Kaleva Kekkonen | statesman, Cold War, Finland

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    Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, (born Sept. 3, 1900, Pielavesi, Fin.—died Aug. 31, 1986, Helsinki), Finnish prime minister (1950–53, 1954–56) and president (1956–81), noted for his Soviet -oriented neutrality. A northern lumberman’s son, Kekkonen studied at the University of Helsinki, receiving bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in civil law in ...

  6. When Finland Mattered — And Why It Matters Again - POLITICO

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    “They know that I know Putin,” the Finnish president said recently, echoing similar sentiments his predecessor, Urho Kekkonen, expressed in 1961 about Khrushchev.

  7. Urho Kaleva Kekkonen. 1900—1986 8th President of Finland. 1956—1981 (five terms) U rho Kaleva was born on 3 September 1900 in Pielavesi in a humble cottage called Lepikko. He was the first child of Juho Kekkonen and Emilia Pylvänäinen. His father was originally a farmhand and forestry worker, but he joined the emerging middle class by ...

  8. Urho Kaleva Kekkonen | Encyclopedia.com

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    Urho Kekkonen. Urho Kekkonen (1900-1986) was Finland's president from 1956 to 1981. He kept the nation on a steady political course, despite continuing to keep that nation actively politically neutral to assure peaceful relations with its powerful neighbor, the Soviet Union. This policy became known as "Finlandization" by detractors.

  9. Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (pronounced [ˈurho ˈkekːonen] ; 3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was the President of Finland between 1956 and 1982. He was also the Prime Minister of Finland before that. Kekkonen was born in Pielavesi. He took part of the Finnish Civil War.

  10. URHO KEKKONEN, 85, IS DEAD; FINNISH PRESIDENT FOR 25 YEARS

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    Urho K. Kekkonen, Finland's President for more than 25 years, until an incompacitating illness forced his retirement in 1981, died early today at his home in Helsinki. He was 85 years old.

  11. The Birth of Urho Kekkonen | History Today

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    Finland's longest-serving president was born on September 3rd, 1900. Urho Kekkonen making a speech on New Year's Day 1959 For most of the last millennium Finland has been dominated by either Sweden or Russia, and in 1809 the country was absorbed into the empire of the Tsars.

  12. Urho Kekkonen - Wikiwand

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    Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also served as prime minister (1950–1953, 1954–1956), and held various other cabinet positions.