Johannes Undusk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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politician
Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1918
Place of Birth: Pskov Oblast, Russia
Date of Death: 28-Mar-1979
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Johannes Undusk
- 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, 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 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.His son is television journalist and politician Feliks Undusk.
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