User:Roher2hn/First Secretary of the Estonian Communist Party

The first secretary of the Estonian Communist Party (ECP) Central committee (CC) was the lead secretariate for the ECP CC. This was the Estonian Communist Party's highest office. The position is determined by the ECP Central Committee.

Up until 1990, this was essentially the highest position in the Estonian SSR, based out of Tallinn on the 9th floor of the ECP CC building on Lenin boulevard.

Different ECP CC sectors took orders from the First Secretary of the ECP CC. In 1940, Karl Säre was the First Secretary of the Central Committee. The organization and instruction sector, private sector, financial and economic sector and commercial sectors all reported to him.
 * 25.08.1940-1941 Karl Säre
 * 28.09.1944-04.04.1950 Nikolai Karotamm
 * 04.04.1950-26.07.1978 Johannes Käbin
 * 26.07.1978-16.06.1988 Karl Vaino
 * 16.06.1988-??.03.1990 Vaino Väljas
 * 1990 Enn-Arno Sillari

ECP CC Deputy First Secretaries

 * Aleksander Aru
 * Aleksander Hendrikson
 * Pavel Krjukov
 * Gavriil Latõšev
 * Vladimir Lipp
 * Stefan Mohort
 * Hermann Pappel
 * Jakov Parind
 * Jevgeni Radulov
 * Ilja Rjabov
 * Konstantin Selivanov