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Place of Birth: Narva, Ida-Viru County, Estonia
About Sergei Issakov
- Sergei Gennadievich Issakov (Russian: ?????? ??????????? ??????; 8 October 1931, Narva – 11 January 2013, Tartu) was an Estonian literary scholar and politician. Issakov was born into a family of first generation intellectuals (his grandmothers and grandparents were workers and peasants, but his father and mother became intellectuals).
- His parents were from Narva.
- In 1941, his father was arrested on charges of espionage.
- A special meeting sentenced him to seven and a half years of imprisonment, and two years later he died in the camp.
- He studied with Yuri Lotman at the University of Tartu and graduated in 1954 as a philologist of Russian.
- In 1955, he became a university lecturer, and from 1978 to 1997, he was a professor, and afterwards, an emeritus professor.
- Issakov was a Doctor of Philology from 1976 to his death.
- He worked as a lecturer in Russian literature at the University of Helsinki.From 1995 to 1999, Issakov was a member of the Riigikogu for the pro-Russian Our Home is Estonia coalition, representing Tartu.
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