State · 1940 – 1991
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
A state of 1940 – 1991 — 51 years in Europe. It followed Interwar Estonia. It was replaced by Estonia and followed by Estonian restoration of Independence. The atlas records 12 things within it — people 12. Its line of rulers holds 16 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 51 years
- 1940 – 1991
- Rulers
- 16
- the Q109937335
- Within it
- 12
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 5
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Interwar Estonia · follows
After it
- Estonia · replaced by · 1918 – present
- Estonian restoration of Independence · followed by
Rulers
The line of Q109937335 - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johannes Vares | 1940 – 1946 | 6 years | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | |
| Nigol Andresen | 1946 – 1947 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Eduard Päll | 1947 – 1950 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| August Jakobson | 1950 – 1958 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Johan Eichfeld | 1958 – 1961 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Aleksei Müürisepp | 1961 – 1970 | 9 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Arnold Koop | 1967 – 1968 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Aleksander Ansberg | 1970 – 1970 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Artur Vader | 1970 – 1978 | 8 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Johannes Lott | 1975 – 1978 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Meta Vannas | 1978 – 1978 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Jüri Suurhans | 1978 – 1982 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Johannes Käbin | 1978 – 1983 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Valde Roosmaa | 1985 – 1989 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Enn-Arno Sillari | 1989 – 1990 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Arnold Rüütel | 1990 – 1992 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
16 rulers, 16 with terms dated as terms, covering 1940 – 1992. Median reign 3 years. 3 of 15 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.94, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, 1940 – 1953Flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (1940–1953) · Public domain 
coat of arms, 1940 – 1990Emblem of the Estonian SSR · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Estonian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1953%E2%80%931990).svg.png)
flag, 1953 – 1990Flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (1953–1990) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1990Coat of arms of Estonia · Public domain 
flag, from 1990Flag of Estonia · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19999 rows
- August Jakobson · ruler · 1904 – 1963
- Johannes Käbin · ruler · 1905 – 1999
- Artur Vader · ruler · 1920 – 1978
- Aleksei Müürisepp · ruler · 1902 – 1970
- Eduard Päll · ruler · 1903 – 1989
- Aleksander Ansberg · ruler · 1909 – 1975
- Meta Vannas · ruler · 1924 – 2002
- Enn-Arno Sillari · ruler · 1944 – present
and 1 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood51 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median3 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 9% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record16
has more rulers on record than 89% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1930 – 2001, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1966, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q130280 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.