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Arvo Makkonen
Arvo is a Finnish and Estonian given name for males and may refer to: * Arvo Aalto (born 1932), Finnish politician *Arvo Aaltonen (1892–1949), Finnish swimmer and Olympic medalist *Arvo Aller (born 1973), Estonian politician *Arvo Andresson (1954–1994), captain of *Arvo Askola (1909–1975), Finnish track and field athlete and Olympic medalist * Arvo Haavisto (1900–1977), Finnish freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist *Arvo Iho (born 1949), Estonian film director, cinematographer, actor and photographer * Arvo Kraam (born 1971), Estonian football defender * Arvo Kuddo (born 1954), Estonian economist and politician * Arvo Kukumägi (1958–2017), Estonian actor * Arvo Nuut (1941–2021), Estonian film operator and film producer *Arvo Ojala (1920–2005), American actor * Arvo Pärt (born 1935), Estonian composer *Arvo Sainio (1921-1984), Finnish military officer and politician *Arvo Salminen (1896–1967), Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician * Arvo Salo (1932–2011) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Sainio
Arvo Rober Sainio (30 July 1921, in Lokalahti – 23 October 1984) was an officer in the Finnish Defence Forces, a farmer and a politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Finnish Rural Party (SMP) from 1972 to 1973 and the Finnish People's Unity Party (SKYP) from 1973 to 1975. He served in the Finnish Army as an officer during World War II and for a couple of years after the war before he retired from the Army and took up farming. He was the father of MP Kike Elomaa Ritva Tuulikki "Kike" Elomaa (née ''Sainio''; born 16 July 1955, in Lokalahti) is a Finnish professional female bodybuilding champion, pop singer, and member of the Finnish Parliament. Early life and education Kike Elomaa was born in Lokalaht .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sainio, Arvo 1921 births 1984 deaths People from Uusikaupunki Finnish Rural Party politicians Finnish People's Unity Party politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1972–75) Finnish military per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARVØ
ARVØ (born 1992 in Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Erlabrunn as Raphael Schmiedel) is a German musician and producer. Personal life In the age of 10 ARVØ discovered his interest in electronic music and started producing own songs. Subsequently he worked as a DJ in the region Zwickau. Later in September 2017 resident in Tallinn ARVØ met with the composer Arvo Pärt. The first music was published in December 2018. The song "Northward Bound" was released on the compilation ''Tour de Traum XVI'' by the Cologne based label Traum Schallplatten. ARVØ was put together with artists like Dominik Eulberg, Max Cooper (electronica musician), Max Cooper or Ryan Davis (musician), Ryan Davis. In March 2019 ARVØ released a remix of the song "Lell´o", which won 3rd prize for Song of the year 2018 in Estonia) by the Estonian band Trad.Attack!. The EP "Pirita" was published in August 2020 in the label Wanderlust by Leipzig based DJane . Musical style ARVØ can be assigned to the genres Tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Ylppö
Arvo Henrik Ylppö (27 October 1887 – 28 January 1992) was a Finnish physician and professor of pediatrics who significantly decreased Finnish infant mortality during the 20th century. He is credited as the father of Finland's public maternity and child health clinic system established in 1922 ( fi, neuvola), which focuses on monitoring the health and development of newborn and pre-school children and their families, providing parents with childcare guidance and supporting child-parent interaction. For forty years, Ylppö held the title of archiater (''arkkiatri''), the highest honorary title awarded to a physician. Internationally, he was known for his research on premature infants. Ylppö was born in 1887 in Akaa, Finland into a farming family. He was apparently born premature and remained small in stature through his life. He entered the University of Helsinki in 1906 and decided to specialize in pediatric medicine. In 1912, he moved to the Imperial Children's Hospita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Volmer
Arvo Volmer (born November 4, 1962 in Tallinn) is an Estonian conductor. Volmer was principal conductor of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra from 1993 to 2001. From 2004 to 2013 he was Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and in 2014 was appointed Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor. The ''Adelaide Review'' wrote that Volmer's tenure as Chief Conductor saw the orchestra "improve out of all proportion and enter an unprecedented period of ascendancy". From 2004 to 2012, Volmer combined his Adelaide duties with the posts of music director and principal conductor of the Estonian National Opera in Tallinn. He has also been guest conductor of many orchestras, especially in Scandinavia. Among his recordings are the complete orchestral works of Leevi Madetoja and the complete symphonies of Eduard Tubin and Jean Sibelius. Since September 2014 he has been the Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento. Awards and nomination ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Viljanti
Arvo Kunto Viljanti (until 1935 named ''Viklund'', 24 August 1900 in Pargas – 6 July 1974) was a Finnish historian. Viljanti had earned a PhD and from 1962 worked as a professor at the University of Åbo The Royal Academy of Turku or the Royal Academy of Åbo ( sv, Kungliga Akademin i Åbo or ; la, Regia Academia Aboensis; fi, Turun akatemia) was the first university in Finland, and the only Finnish university that was founded when the country .... He was specialized in Swedish–Finnish military history of the 16th and 17th centuries. References External linksBibliography at the Swedish National Library 1900 births 1974 deaths 20th-century Finnish historians Academic personnel of the Åbo Akademi University {{Finland-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Viitanen
Arvo Albert Viitanen (12 April 1924 – 28 April 1999) was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. He won a silver medal in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. He was born in Uurainen, Central Finland and died in Myllykoski. Viitanen also won five medals in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 4 × 10 km relay (1954), a silver in the 15 km (1954), and bronzes in the 50 km (1954, 1958) and the 4 × 10 km relay (1958). He also won the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival The Holmenkollen Ski Festival ( no, Holmenkollen skifestival or ) is a traditional annual Nordic skiing event in Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway. The full official name of the event is Holmenkollen FIS World Cup Nordic. History It takes place in March ... in 1956. Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Olympic Games * 1 medal – (1 silver) Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Valton
Arvo Vallikivi (born 14 December 1935 in Märjamaa), commonly known under the pen name of Arvo Valton, is an Estonian writer known for a number of books and, among other things, the script for Viimne reliikvia, the highly successful movie adaptation of Eduard Bornhöhe's Vürst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimsed päevad. In October 1980, Valton was a signatory of the Letter of 40 Intellectuals, a public letter in which forty prominent Estonian intellectuals defended the Estonian language and protested the Russification policies of the Kremlin in Estonia. The signatories also expressed their unease against Republic-level government in harshly dealing with youth protests in Tallinn that were sparked a week earlier due to the banning of a public performance of the punk rock band Propeller. In 1992, Arvo Valton was elected to Riigikogu The Riigikogu (; from Estonian ''riigi-'', of the state, and ''kogu'', assembly) is the unicameral parliament of Estonia. In addition to appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Turtiainen
Arvo Albin Turtiainen (16 September 1904, Helsinki – 8 October 1980) was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize The Eino Leino Prize is an annual prize award to top writers in Finland since 1956, with particular emphasis on poets. It is named after Eino Leino, a pioneer of Finnish poetry. Recipients *1956 Viljo Kajava *1957 Helvi Juvonen *1958 Rabbe Enc ... in 1973. Works * Muutos (1936) * Rautakourat (1938) * Tie pilven alta (1939) * Palasin kotiin (1944) * Laulu kiven ja raudan ympyrässä (1945) * Ihminen n:o 503/42 (1946) * Laulu puolueelle (1946) * Tapahtui satamassa (1954) * Laulu ajasta ja rakkaudesta (1954) * Minä rakastan (1955) * Syyskevät (1959) * Minä paljasjalkainen (1962) * Runoja 1943–64 (1964) * Hyvää joulua (1967) * Puheita Porthaninrinteellä (1968) * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Tuominen
Arvo “Poika” Tuominen (5 September 1894 – 27 May 1981) was a Finnish communist revolutionary and later a social democratic journalist, politician and author. Tuominen was given his nickname, "Poika", in 1920 because of his boyish look; ''poika'' means "boy" in Finnish. Tuominen was born in 1894 in Kuotila (part of Hämeenkyrö) to the family of a rural carpenter. In 1912 he moved to Tampere to become a carpenter's apprentice and soon joined the Social Democratic Party of Finland. During the Finnish Civil War in early 1918, Tuominen sided with the Finnish Red Guards and edited ''Kansan lehti'', a radical social democratic newspaper in Tampere. He was shortly arrested when the White Guards took the city in April, but he was soon released. After the Red Guards were defeated in May 1918 several Finnish radical social democratic leaders fled to Russia, where they split from the mainstream of Finnish Social Democratic Party and founded the Communist Party of Finland in Petrograd i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Sävelä
Arvo Päiviö Sävelä (30 June 1908, Kankaanpää - 17 November 1976; surname until 1936 ''Sjöviiki'') was a Finnish smallholder and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1948 to 1962, representing first the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP), later the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders ( fi, Työväen ja Pienviljelijäin Sosialidemokraattinen Liitto, TPSL) was a political party in Finland. TPSL originated as a fraction of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, headed by Emil ... (TPSL). References 1908 births 1976 deaths People from Kankaanpää People from Turku and Pori Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1948–51) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1951–54) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1954–58) Membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Sarapuu
Arvo Sarapuu (August 26, 1953 – March 17, 2020) was an Estonian businessman, politician, and member of the Estonian Centre Party. Sarapuu served as the first post-independence County Governor of Järva County from 1989 until 1997. He then served as the Deputy Mayor of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, from April 2011 until his resignation on May 26, 2017, due to allegations of corruption. Arvo Sarapuu died on March 17, 2020, at the age of 66. He was survived by his wife, Kersti Sarapuu, who served as Mayor of Paide from 2005 to 2011, and their five children. Sarapuu was buried in Metsakalmistu cemetery in Tallinn. Honors *Order of the National Coat of Arms The Order of the National Coat of Arms ( et, Riigivapi teenetemärk, french: Ordre du Blason National) was instituted by Konstantin Päts on 7 October 1936 to commemorate 24 February 1918, the day on which Estonian independence was declared. The ..., 3rd class (2006) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarapuu, Arvo 1953 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
