Arnold Koop Explained

Arnold Koop
Office:Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
Term Start:19 March 1967
Term End:13 June 1971
Alongside:Ilmar Vahe
Predecessor:Vaino Väljas
Successor:Ilmar Vahe
Birth Date:16 July 1922
Birth Place:Saint Petersburg Governorate
Death Place:Moscow, Soviet Union
Party:CPSU

Arnold Koop (16 July 1922, Saint Petersburg Governorate – 21 April 1988 Moscow) was a Soviet Estonian pedagog and Communist Party functionary.[1]

From 1960 until 1968 he was the rector of Tallinn Pedagogical Institute. 1970-1988 he was the rector of the University of Tartu. Koop was known as ideologically orthodox Communist, who supported Neo-Stalinist tightening up policies of the 1970's Brezhnevian era.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fond 105: Arnold Koop . dspace.ut.ee . 13 July 2021.
  2. Web site: PUNAFRAASID KUI SÕJAKAVALUS ENSV-s | teater. Muusika. Kino. . 16 November 2017 .