10 Facts About Jaakko Hallama

Eino Jaakko Untamo Hallama was a Finnish diplomat and a longtime Ambassador of Finland to Moscow, who served as minister for foreign affairs in the Lehto caretaker government from 1963 to 1964.

Jaakko Hallama spent some of his childhood and youth in Viipuri.

Jaakko Hallama graduated from Kuopio lyceum in 1936, studied at Cambridge University in 1938 and graduated in Finland as a Bachelor of Philosophy in 1941.

Jaakko Hallama has been employed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1941.

Jaakko Hallama first visited with Foreign Minister Ahti Karjalainen in Moscow and eventually with President Urho Kekkonen in Novosibirsk.

Jaakko Hallama received in Novosibirsk information about the ousting of Chancellor of Justice Olavi Honka from candidate in presidential nomination.

At about 40 years of age, Jaakko Hallama became ill with Parkinson's disease, which was attempted in 1963 to improve her condition at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm by surgery by the world-famous Swedish brain surgeon Herbert Olivecrona.

However, the operation did not succeed, as a result of which Jaakko Hallama lost his speech almost completely.

When Mauno Koivisto became a new president in 1982, Jaakko Hallama was called home from Moscow and moved from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to retire in 1983 after working for more than 40 years.

Anita Jaakko Hallama became known for her long-term relationship with President Urho Kekkonen.