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Arnold Koop

1922-07-16 – 1988-04-21

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Life & Legacy

Arnold Koop (16 July 1922, Saint Petersburg Governorate – 21 April 1988 Moscow) was a Soviet Estonian pedagog and Communist Party functionary.
From 1960 until 1968 he was the rector of Tallinn Pedagogical Institute. From 1970 to 1988 he was the rector of the University of Tartu, where he was responsible for exerting political control at the university, closing the sociology laboratory and dismissing its director, and shifting its focus from Estonian to Soviet studies. Koop was known as ideologically orthodox Communist, who supported Neo-Stalinist tightening up policies of the 1970s Brezhnev era.

Occupation & Career

politician, military personnel, educator, university teacher

Education

Tallinn University

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Order of the Red Banner of Labour; Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class; Order of the Badge of Honour; Order of the October Revolution; Order of Lenin; Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"; Medal "For Courage"; Hero of Socialist Labour; Merited Scientist of Estonian SSR; Estonian SSR State Prize

Legacy Highlights

Honors & Awards

Estonian SSR State Prize · Hero of Socialist Labour · Medal "For Courage" · Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" · Merited Scientist of Estonian SSR · Order of Lenin · Order of the Badge of Honour · Order of the October Revolution · Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class · Order of the Red Banner of Labour