Urkki (magazine)

Urkki was a Finnish language men's magazine that was in circulation between 1974 and 1983.^[1] The magazine was started with the subtitle of "the world's magazine" as a Finnish edition of the Danish magazine Ugens Rapport.^[1] The title of the magazine, Urkki, was a reference to the Finnish President of the period, Urho Kekkonen.^[1]

Urkki mostly featured masculine oriented topics such as war adventures and news from other countries and did not focus on nude models or sexual content.^[1][2] Following the established tradition for the Finnish men's magazines that were launched after World War II the magazine employed a sarcastic approach towards reporting domestic politics.^[1]

In 1979 the magazine had a total of 238,000 readers of whom 38,000 were women.^[2] At the beginning of the 1980s it was one of four best-selling men's magazines in Finland along with , and .^[2]

A climbing route in Gritstoneberget, a wall section on the northern part of Ällmoraberget, Sweden, was named after Urkki.^[3]

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