Raoul Üksvärav (21 April 1928

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

– 2 March 2016) was an

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n economist and politician. He was a member of

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. In 1952 he graduated ''cum laude'' from the

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's Department of Economics, majoring in industrial economics. From 1953 to 1956 he was a postgraduate student at the Institute of Economics of the Estonian SSR Academy of Sciences, in 1956 he defended his doctoral dissertation (approved in 1957), and in 1967 he defended his doctoral dissertation in economics (approved in 1969). From 1963 until 1964 he was an exchange researcher at the

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and

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1928 births 2016 deaths Members of the Riigikogu, 1992–1995 Members of the Riigikogu, 1995–1999 Tallinn University of Technology alumni Academic staff of the Tallinn University of Technology Politicians from Tallinn Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 3rd Class Burials at Pärnamäe Cemetery 20th-century Estonian economists {{Estonia-1995-Riigikogu-politician-stub