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Jüri (given Name)
Jüri is an Estonian language, Estonian masculine given name. It is often a diminutive of the given name Jürgen. People named Jüri include: * Jüri Aarma (1951–2019), actor, musician and journalist * Jüri Adams (born 1947), politician * Jüri Allik (born 1949), psychologist * Jüri Alperten (1957–2020), conductor, pianist and music teacher * Jüri Annusson (1884–1965), politician * Jüri Arrak (1936–2022), painter * Jüri Ehlvest (1967–2006), writer * Jüri Jaakson (1870–1942), businessman and politician * Jüri Jaanson (born 1965), rower * Jüri Järvet (1919–1995), actor * Jüri Käen (born 1970), swimmer and coach * Jüri Kallas (born 1967), translator, publisher and editor * Jüri-Ruut Kangur (born 1975), conductor * Jüri Käo (born 1965), businessman * Jüri Kaver (born 1974), politician * Jüri Kerem (1943–1993), caricaturist and portraitist * Jüri Kork (born 1947), politician * Jüri Kraft (1935–2023), economist and politician * Jüri Krjukov (1954– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Language
Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language and the official language of Estonia. It is written in the Latin script and is the first language of the majority of the country's population; it is also an official language of the European Union. Estonian is spoken natively by about 1.1 million people: 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 elsewhere. Classification By Convention (norm), conventions of historical linguistics, Estonian is classified as a part of the Finnic languages, Finnic (a.k.a. Baltic Finnic) branch of the Uralic languages, Uralic (a.k.a. Uralian, or Finno-Ugric languages, Finno-Ugric) language family. Other Finnic languages include Finnish language, Finnish and several endangered languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and in northwestern Russia. Estonian is typically subclassified as a Southern Finnic language, and it is the second-most-spoken language among all the Finnic languages. Alongside Finnish, Hungarian language, Hungarian and Maltese language, Maltese, Estonian is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Kerem
Jüri Kerem (24 April 1943 – 8 September 1993) was an Estonian caricaturist and portraitist. He was born in Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and .... References External linksSome of Jüri Kerem's works(choose his name from the menu on the right) Estonian caricaturists Estonian portrait artists 20th-century Estonian illustrators Artists from Tallinn 1943 births 1993 deaths Tallinn University alumni {{Estonia-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Müür
Jüri Müür (born 7 January 1929, Tartu – 17 November 1984) is an Estonian film director, screenwriter and actor. In 1960 he graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Filmography * 1961: ''Ühe küla mehed'' (feature film; director) * 1964: ''Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan'' (feature film; director) * 1968: ''Inimesed sõdurisinelis'' (feature film; director) * 1977: ''Reigi õpetaja'' (feature film; director) References 1929 births 1984 deaths Estonian film directors Estonian screenwriters Estonian male film actors 20th-century Estonian male actors Male actors from Tartu 20th-century screenwriters Burials at Pärnamäe Cemetery {{Estonia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Mõis
Jüri Mõis (born 25 October 1956 in Pärnu) is an Estonian politician and businessman, who was mayor of Tallinn between November 1999 and June 2001, and who was the Minister of the Interior (Estonia), Minister of the Interior between 25 March and 5 November 1999. He is one of the three founders of Hansapank. References 1956 births Living people Mayors of Tallinn People from Pärnu Ministers of the interior of Estonia 21st-century Estonian politicians Members of the Riigikogu, 1999–2003 {{Estonia-1999-Riigikogu-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Martin
Jüri Martin (29 September 1940 – 21 January 2025) was an Estonian biologist and politician. He was a member of IX Riigikogu. Martin was born on 29 September 1940, and died on 21 January 2025, at the age of 84. References 1940 births 2025 deaths Estonian Greens politicians Estonian Centre Party politicians Members of the Riigikogu, 1999–2003 University of Tartu alumni Politicians from Tallinn {{Estonia-1999-Riigikogu-politician-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Marksoo
Jüri Marksoo (born Jüri Markson; 10 August 1876 Ertsma, Pärnu County – 3 October 1941 Sevurallag, Sverdlovsk Oblast) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of Estonian National Assembly Estonian National Assembly () was a bicameral national assembly which was convened after the 1936 Estonian National Assembly referendum received popular support to draft a new constitution. The First Chamber had 80 members and was elected (althou ... (). References 1876 births 1941 deaths Members of the Estonian National Assembly Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class Estonian Gulag detainees Estonian people who died in Soviet detention People who died in the Gulag People from Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish Politicians from Pärnu County {{Estonia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Luik
Jüri Luik (born 17 August 1966) is an Estonian diplomat and politician. He has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defence, and he has acted as Estonia's ambassador to Benelux, NATO, North America, and Russia. Early life Jüri Luik was born in Tallinn. He attended the University of Tartu where he received a degree in journalism in 1989. He was active in the Estonian independence movement at this time. After graduating, Luik became editor of the magazine ''Vikerkaar'' for two years. Luik married fellow diplomat Ruth Lausma Luik. Political and diplomatic career Luik began working under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lennart Meri, in 1989. He served as the Anglosphere expert at the Estonian Institute from 1989 to 1991. He briefly worked as the Head of International Organisations Division within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1991 before becoming its Political Director from 1991 to 1992. He joined the Pro Patria National Coalition Party that was affiliat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juri Lotman
Juri Lotman (; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu. He was elected a member of the British Academy (1977), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989) and the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. His extensive archive (now kept at the University of Tallinn and at the Tartu University Library) includes his correspondence with a number of Russian and Western intellectuals. Biography Juri Lotman was born in the Jewish intellectual family of lawyer Mikhail Lotman and Sorbonne-educated dentist Aleksandra Lotman in Petrograd, Russia. His elder sister Inna Obraztsova graduated from Leningrad Conservatory and became a composer and lecturer of musical theory, his younger sister Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Lossmann
Jüri Lossmann ( – 1 May 1984) was an Estonian long-distance runner. He finished second in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at 2:32:48.6, trailing Hannes Kolehmainen by 13 seconds, but beating the third-placed Valerio Arri by almost 4 minutes. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris he was the flag bearer for Estonia and finished tenth in the marathon. Biography Lossmann started as a football player for ''Merkur'' club before changing to athletics. He was wounded in World War I, but recovered and in 1916 won a marathon race in Tallinn and the Russian Championships in the 5000 m. In 1923 he won the international marathon in Gothenburg, Sweden, and in 1928, he ran the first leg of the Trans-America Run. Next year he set an Estonian record in one-hour running and competed in the Antwerpen marathon. Besides running, Lossmann worked for the Estonian Chocolate Factory Kawe in 1922–36, and in the 1930s trained Estonian long-distance runners, but without much succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Lina
Jüri Lina (born 13 October 1949 in Tartu) is an Estonian journalist, writer, paranormal investigator, music producer, radio host, film director, ufologist and conspiracy theorist. In 1960s and 1970s he published many works (articles, reviews, translations) which were anti-Soviet. Due to discord with Soviet powers, in 1979 he was expelled from Estonia by Soviet authorities. Since then he has lived mainly in Sweden. In 1991 he was rehabilitated. Lina's works are usually anti-Semitic, anti-Masonic, and critical of socialism. He is one of the most well known Holocaust deniers of Estonia. Biography From 1960–1970, Jüri Lina first began to write articles, reviews and translations and produced radio programs, the most famous of which was " Pobifo revüü", the first program of which was broadcast on Eesti Raadio's corresponding II program, or Vikerraadio, on 22 May 1968. In 1967, Lina participated in the founding of the film club Amfo in Tartu, being its first president in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Liim
Jüri Liim (born 9 November 1940 in Tallinn) is a former Estonian politician, investigative journalist and track and field athlete (long-distance runner). 1965-1976 he won several medals at Estonian championships. In 1990–1992 he was a member of parliament of Estonia (''Ülemnõukogu'') and Estonian Congress. He was one of the founders and leaders of Estonian Green Party () (later Estonian Greens). Awards * 2006: Order of the National Coat of Arms The Order of the National Coat of Arms (, ) was instituted by Konstantin Päts on 7 October 1936 to commemorate 24 February 1918, the day on which Estonian independence was declared. The Order of the National Coat of Arms is bestowed only on Est ..., III class. References Living people 1940 births Estonian Greens politicians Voters of the Estonian restoration of Independence 20th-century Estonian politicians Estonian journalists Estonian male long-distance runners Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jüri Kukk
Jüri Kukk (May 1, 1940 – March 27, 1981) was an Estonian professor of chemistry, anti-Soviet dissident and political prisoner, who died in the former Soviet labor camp at Vologda. Kukk, who initially studied and later taught at the University of Tartu from 1958 to 1979, was the author of a number of scientific papers. Although he was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, it was apparently Kukk's period of scientific work in France in 1975–1976 that opened his eyes to the severity of the problems in his occupied homeland of Estonia and in the former Soviet Union more broadly. Kukk protested the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR in 1979, and applied for permission to emigrate to the West. After being fired by the University of Tartu, he was arrested by the Soviet authorities in February 1980, along with fellow human rights activist Mart-Olav Niklus, and charged with distribution of "anti-Soviet propaganda". Niklus and Kukk both actively campaigned for Estoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
