Nikolai Kormašov (28 August 1929 – 22 August 2012) was a Russian-Estonian painter and art restorer. He became one of the best-known figures of Estonia’s post-Stalin “Sixties Generation” and is commonly associated with the Soviet-era Severe style. He was also noted for collecting and restoring Old Russian icons. A museum exhibition of icons from his private collection in 1971 has been described as the first museum presentation of icons from a private collection in the Soviet Union.
Kalle Kasemaa (born 30 December 1942) is an Estonian theologian, Lutheran pastor, and literary translator. He was a professor of Old Testament and Semitic studies at the University of Tartu and served as the first dean of the university’s re-opened Faculty of Theology after Estonia regained independence.
Kasemaa has been widely recognised for his translation work and cultural contributions, including Estonia’s state lifetime achievement award for culture (2017) and the University of Tartu’s national identity award (Rahvusmõtte award, 2018).
Mati Karelson (born 27 December 1948) is an Estonian chemist and academic whose work has centred on theoretical and computational chemistry, especially quantitative structure–activity and structure–property relationships (QSAR/QSPR), molecular descriptors, molecular design and the use of artificial intelligence in chemistry. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tartu, was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 2007, and served as research and development adviser to the Prime Minister of Estonia from 2005 to 2014.
Peeter Kann (9 January 1883 – January 1943) was an Estonian military officer, jurist and judge. A veteran of the Imperial Russian Army, the First World War and the Estonian War of Independence, he served as military prosecutor of Estonia and reached the rank of colonel. In December 1920 he was elected to the Supreme Court of Estonia, where he remained until the Soviet occupation in 1940; from 1923 he chaired the Criminal Department, later served as deputy chairman of the court, and acted as chief justice in 1940. Arrested by the NKVD after the Soviet occupation of Estonia, he died in the Gulag in January 1943.