Rikke Helms
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Rikke Marianne Helms (born 25 February 1948) is a Danish cultural worker and leader of the Danish Cultural Institute's office in Saint Petersburg.
Rikke Helms was born in 1948 in Skive, Denmark to Dr Peder Georg Helms (1920–2005), a physician, and Sara (née Tønnesen) Helms (1911–1999); she has two brothers. She spent most of her childhood in the eastern Greenland in connection with her parents work as physicians.
In 1966, she took the studentereksamen[clarification needed] at the Horsens Statsskole. In 1976, she was awarded cand.mag. in Russian and Danish language studies from the University of Copenhagen. Following a one-year study at the Leningrad State University, she worked as a travel guide for tourists and congresses in the former Soviet Union in the period 1970–75 during her years of studies.[citation needed]
