Uno Laht, (April 30, 1924, in Valga, Estonia – September 24, 2008, in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer and poet who wrote about the characteristics of everyday Soviet life in poetry.
Laht was also a NKVD (later KGB) officer who participated in arrests and deportations in 1940s.
The subject matter includes "shock troops" (work battalions sent to pioneer new agricultural and industrial collective projects), cultural restriction, time wasting bureaucracy and other phenomena of Soviet life.
In 1975, Laht was awarded the Tuglas Prize for his short story We Good Fellows All Over the Earth.
He left the USSR Union of Writers and rejected the status of a Soviet war veteran.