Heiki Raudla (born 20 May 1949 in

Võhma Võhma (german: Wöchma) is a town in Põhja-Sakala Parish, Viljandi County, central Estonia. History The settlement dates to the sixteenth century. It began to grow when a railway station, located on the Tallinn - Viljandi railway line operat ...

) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n educator, cartoonist and politician. Rausla graduated from the Department of Physics and Chemistry of Tartu State University in 1972 with a degree in physics. He later worked as a physics teacher. Since 1972, he has been drawing cartoons for newspapers such as ''

Edasi ''Edasi'' (Estonian: ''Forward'') was a newspaper published in Tartu, Estonia. The paper was published with this name between 1948 and 1994. History and profile The paper was the successor of ''Postimees'' of which the name was changed to ''Eda ...

'', ''Tee Kommunismile'', ''Sakala'', '' Oma maa'', and magazines such as Pikker and Noorus. He was a member of

VII Riigikogu VII Riigikogu was the seventh legislature of Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu The Riigikogu (; from Estonian ''riigi-'', of the state, and ''kogu'', assembly) is the unicameral parliament of Estonia. In addition to approving legislation, the Pa ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raudla, Heiki Living people 1949 births Members of the Riigikogu, 1992–1995 Estonian cartoonists University of Tartu alumni Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class People from Võhma