Karl Vaino

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Karl Vaino
Vaino in 1987
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Estonia
In office 26 July 1978 – 16 June 1988
Preceded by	Johannes Käbin
Succeeded by	Vaino Väljas
Personal details
Born	(1923-05-28)28 May 1923 Tomsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	12 February 2022(2022-02-12) (aged 98)[1] Moscow, Russia
Resting place	Federal Military Memorial Cemetery
Citizenship	Soviet and Russian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940–1989)
Relations	Anton Vaino (grandson)
Alma mater	Omsk State Transport University

Karl Genrikhovich Vaino (Estonian: Karl Vaino; Russian: Карл Генрихович Вайно; alias Kirill Voinov;^[2] 28 May 1923 – 12 February 2022) was a Russian-born Soviet politician in Soviet-occupied Estonia. In 1978–1988 he was the formal leader of the Communist Party of the Estonian SSR.^[3]