Cika wannan jumla: An haifi Hakulinen a ranar 9 ga Oktoba 1918. A lokacin, wannan yankin yana cikin ƙasar Finland, amma yanzu yana cikin Jamhuriyar Karelia, da ke cikin ƙasar Rasha. Hakulinen ya yi aiki a rundunar sojojin Finland a cikin
yaƙi da Rasha a 1941-1944, ciyar da yawa daga cikin lokaci a can a kan iyaka a Svir kogin. Ya shafe watanni da yawa a asibitocin soja don warkar da raunukansa.