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February 1st, 2012
Caucasus Mtn Range in Russia Might Be Named “Helsinki”

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Finland comes up notoriously short in the Alps department, as successive failed attempts to lure the Winter Olympics in this direction have proved beyond doubt, and the capital region is particularly poorly furnished with anything much larger than an ambitious molehill, but there might just be a “Mount Helsinki” on the map if one dogged Russian has his way. The project has been in the making already for more than 23 years, but eastern trade veteran Yuri Piskulov, 78, is not giving up. A mountain peak in the Northern Caucasus region in Russia has to be officially named after the Finnish capital Helsinki, he claims. Read More

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