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Hilda Raudkivi

Estonian radio journalist (1927-1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ12363971 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hilda Raudkivi (née Hilda Ilmjärv, March 18, 1927 – January 18, 1997) was an Estonian radio journalist. In 1981, she was named an Honored Journalist of the Estonian SSR.

Raudkivi was the wife of the actor Priit Raudkivi (1920–1970) and the mother of the historian Priit Raudkivi (born 1954).

Editorial summary

“Hilda Raudkivi” enters the record as estonian radio journalist (1927-1996). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hilda, Raudkivi and Estonian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1927, 1997, 1981, 1920—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1927-03-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hilda, Raudkivi and Estonian.
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Why this record matters

“Hilda Raudkivi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hilda, Raudkivi and Estonian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12363971. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1927, 1997, 1981 and 1920.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hilda Raudkivi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.