Arthur Robert Hone (18 February 1915 – 9 June 1972) was an English academic and émigré to the Soviet Union who lived the majority of his life in Estonia. A graduate of the University of Cambridge and member of the

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, he met his future wife

Aira Kaal Aira Kaal (until 1938 ''Alma-Vilhelmine Kaal'', from 1939 ''Aira Hone''; 7 November 1911, in Uuemõisa Parish, Saare County – 7 April 1988) was an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in No ...

in 1938 and returned to Estonia with her shortly before World War II. From 1940 to 1941, he lectured at

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, and during the war worked in a factory and as a librarian in Chelyabinsk, Russia. After the war ended, he again returned to Estonia and resumed lecturing full time at Tartu State University, teaching the subjects of English,

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, Spanish, Italian, and literature. Hone died in Tartu in 1972 at the age of 57. At the time of his death, he was the only foreign citizen who was a permanent resident in the city of Tartu.

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1915 births 1972 deaths 20th-century Estonian educators Academic staff of the University of Tartu British expatriates in Estonia British expatriates in the Soviet Union Communist Party of Great Britain members Estonian communists {{England-academic-bio-stub