May 26, 1924 – December 30, 2005 (81)Soviet and Russian journalist and translator
His father:
Josef (Juuso) Ivanovich SykiäinenApril 16, 1900 – June 30, 1977 (77)
Soviet communist politician, Secretary of the Central Committee of the CP(b) of the Karelian-Finnish SSR, Foreign Minister of the Karelian-Finnish SSR, Chairman of the Presidium of the Karelian-Finnish Research Base of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of party history of the Karelian regional committee of the CPSU, Doctor of History, professor