Vello Salum (5 July 1933 – 30 November 2015) was an Estonian

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...

clergyman, Soviet dissident, and politician. Salum was born in Elistvere in Tartu County. His father August Johannes Salum was a veterinarian and politician. He was a member of

Constitutional Assembly of Estonia Constitutional Assembly of Estonia ( et, Põhiseaduse Assamblee) was the representative body whose goal was to create new Constitution of the Republic of Estonia. The assembly was composed on 20 August 1991 by the members from Committee of Eston ...

. In 2000, he was awarded with Order of the National Coat of Arms, III class. Salum died on 30 November 2015 in

Viljandi Viljandi (, german: Fellin, sv, Fellin) is a town and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,407 in 2019. It is the capital of Viljandi County and is geographically located between two major Estonian cities, Pärnu and Tartu ...

and was buried on 10 December 2015 in Pilistvere Cemetery.

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