Laari J. (Joosep Laar, 1905-1943)

One of the 11 Estonians ever to receive a Gold star medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union, an honor he shared with Gagarini J., Leonid Brezhnev (4-times prize-winner!) and Trotsky’s ice-axe assassin. Soviet Era renaming (1950-1991) of Villardi.