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] 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. At the beginning of the 1980s it was one of four best-selling men's magazines in Finland along with Jallu, Kalle and Ratto.[2]
A climbing route in Gritstoneberget, a wall section on the northern part of Ällmoraberget, Sweden, was named after Urkki.[3]