Harri Lumi (born 7 February 1933) is an Estonian former Communist politician who was the last chairman of the Executive Committee of

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

from December 1984 to January 1990. Lumi graduated from Tallinn's 17th Secondary School in 1952 and, in 1957, graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the

Tallinn University of Technology Established in 1918, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech; et, Tallinna Tehnikaülikool) is the only technical university in Estonia. TalTech, in the capital city of Tallinn, is a university for engineering, business, public administrati ...

with a degree in engineering. He worked as an engineer in the Government of the Residential Government Reserve in Tallinn from 1955 to 1960, in the 1960s in the subordinate units of the Estonian SSR Ministry of Construction, and from 1965 to 1977, he worked as the Chief Engineer and then Head of the Construction Management Construction Board of Tallinn. From 1977 to 1979, he was chairman of the Republican Building Management Trust of Lumi. In 1979, Lumi was appointed as the first deputy chairman of the RSN Executive Committee in Tallinn, where he worked until 1983. From 1983 to 1984, he was the Minister of Construction of the Estonian SSR. After the regaining of independence of Estonia, he was the Construction Director of the joint venture Estkompexim from 1990 to 1992, and from 1992 to 1995 he was the Deputy Head of the Industrial Construction Trust, a state-owned joint-stock company. In 1994, he was one of the founders of the joint stock company Parmeron and still holds some ownership. Lumi was chairman of the chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn from December 1984 to January 1990. He was the last chairman of the Executive Committee. He was chairman during the

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, the subsequent

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and the start of the dissolution of the Estonian SSR. Lumi led the efforts to have Tallinn's Old Town become a

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, as well as opening up Tallinn to foreign countries. He led the plans to start the dissolution of the

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government in Tallinn, eventually renaming the government from the Executive Committee to Tallinn City Government. He was succeeded by Hardo Aasmäe as mayor of Tallinn.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lumi, Harri 1933 births Living people Politicians from Tallinn Mayors of Tallinn Communist Party of Estonia politicians Tallinn University of Technology alumni 20th-century Estonian politicians

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