Johannes Undusk (10 September 1918 – 28 March 1979) was an Estonian Communist politician who was the chairman of the executive committee of Tallinn 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

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, 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 The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, (abbreviated Estonian SSR, Soviet Estonia, or simply Estonia ) was an administrative subunit ( union republic) of the former Soviet Union (USSR), covering the occupied and annexed territory of Estonia ...

Council of Ministers. He was the chairman of the Committee on Culture Education Institutions and the first secretary of the

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the ...

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 (, abbreviated EKP; in Russian: Коммунистическая партия Эстонии) was a regional branch of the CPSU, Soviet communist party (CPSU) which in 1920–1940 operated illegally in Estonia an ...

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 Helsinki, Finland in 1965. He was succeeded by Ivar Kallion. Undusk died on 28 March 1979 and is buried at

Metsakalmistu Metsakalmistu () is a cemetery in the Pirita district of Tallinn. History Metsakalmistu was originally planned to be a public central city cemetery. Eduard Vilde was the first to be buried in 1933. The original area of the cemetery was 24.2 hec ...

. His son is television journalist and politician

Feliks Undusk Feliks Undusk (born 23 December 1948 in Kärdla, Hiiu County) is an Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by t ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Undusk, Johannes 1918 births 1979 deaths People from Pskov Oblast Mayors of Tallinn Communist Party of Estonia politicians Burials at Metsakalmistu 20th-century Estonian politicians Soviet politicians

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