He later became a Communist politician who was the chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn from July 1979 to December 1984.
He was the Estonian master fifteen times and was in 1950 the Soviet Union Student Champion in the 200m.
[1] He worked as an economist from 1952 to 1959 at the Estonian SSR Ministry of Finance, and was a deputy minister from 1961 to 1966.
He was also a member of both the board and the audit committee of the Estonian Nature Conservation Society.
He died on 28 March 2015 from complications of Parkinson's disease, and was buried at Metsakalmistu.