Former first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia Karl Vaino dies

Karl Vaino, who served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Estonian Communist Party in 1978-1988, has died

He served as First Secretary of the Estonian Communist Party from 1978 to 1988. Vaino’s funeral took place on February 14 in Mytishchi near Moscow

Karl Vaino, who in 1978-1988 served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia, died at the age of 99. says on the website of the Stavropegial Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Mytishchi. The deceased was the grandfather of the head of the presidential administration of Russia, Anton Vaino.

Vaino’s funeral took place on February 14, the report said. The ceremony was attended by colleagues and relatives. At the same time, Delfi writesthat Vaino was buried on February 16. The publication does not name the cause of death.

Karl Vaino was born in 1923 in Tomsk, where his parents had moved from Estonia a few years earlier. He studied at the Tomsk Electromechanical Institute of Transport Engineers and after graduation worked in railway structures in the Estonian SSR.

In the late 1940s, he switched to party work, in particular, he was the secretary of the Tallinn Regional Committee, then the head of the department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia. In 1960 he was appointed secretary of the Central Committee of the party, and in 1978 – first secretary.