Name Mihkel Pung | Role Politician | |
Died October 11, 1941, Sverdlovskaya Oblast, Russia | ||
Mihkel Pung (19 October [O.S. 7 October] 1876 in Vana-Põltsamaa Parish – 11 October 1941 in Sevurallag, Sverdlovsk Oblast) was an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia and Speaker of the National Council (upper chamber) from 21 April 1938 to 5 July 1940. Pung was arrested during the Soviet invasion of Estonia and sent to Sevurallag (Sosva lager), a Soviet gulag in Sverdlovsk Oblast. He died in imprisonment in 1941.
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