Ants Paju

Ants Paju (10 September 1944 – 28 June 2011[1]) was an Estonian politician, journalist, athlete, and engineer.

Following the death of Joseph Stalin and the Khrushchev Thaw, the family were permitted to return to Estonia in 1955.

In 1970 he became the champion of track and field sports associations in discus and in 1972, shot put.

[4] As a journalist, he worked as the deputy editor of the Jõgeva district newspaper Punalipp and the editor-in-chief of the magazine Eesti Loodus.

A memorial and bench created by Tauno Kangro to honour to Paju was unveiled in Sõpruse Park in Jõgeva in 2018.