Johannes Undusk (10 September 1918 – 28 March 1979) was an Estonian Communist politician who was the 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 27 March 1961 to June 1971. Undusk graduated from the Leningrad Oblast School of Cultural Studies in 1940, and started working as a club manager. During

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, he joined the Estonian Shooting Corps. During the post-war years, he was elected second secretary of the Estonian Central Committee, and later the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Central Bank of the ECB. He also worked at the Estonian SSR Council of Ministers. He was the chairman of the Committee on Culture Education Institutions and the first secretary of the Tartu City Committee. In 1955, he was promoted to the head of the propaganda and agitation department of the

Communist Party of Estonia The Communist Party of Estonia ( et, Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei, abbreviated EKP) was a subdivision of the Soviet communist party which in 1920-1940 operated illegally in Estonia and, after the 1940 occupation and annexation of Estonia by the ...

Central Committee. From 1971 to his death in 1979, he was the chairman of the Estonian Association for Friendship and Cultural Relations. The organization served as a promoter of foreign policy and as a proponent of Estonian Soviet-era achievements. He was also elected as the Ambassador of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Estonian SSR, a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee of Tallinn. From 1961 to 1971, he was the chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn, developing the city. He oversaw the opening of the passenger ferry between Tallinn and

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in 1965. He was succeeded by

Ivar Kallion Ivar Kallion (30 October 1931 – 16 May 2013) was an Estonian Communist politician and author who was the chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn from June 1971 to July 1979. Biography Kallion graduated from Võru Secondary School in ...

. Undusk died on 28 March 1979 and is buried at

Metsakalmistu Metsakalmistu (meaning ''Forest Cemetery'') is a cemetery in the Pirita district of Tallinn. Metsakalmistu was originally planned to be a public medieval cemetery. Eduard Vilde was the first to be buried in 1933. The original area of the cemet ...

. His son is television journalist and politician

Feliks Undusk Feliks Undusk (born 23 December 1948 in Kärdla, Hiiu County) is an Estonian journalist and politician. He was a member of VIII Riigikogu VIII Riigikogu was the eighth legislature of Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu The Riigikogu (; from Esto ...

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