Ülo Sooster life and time
And he died in 25 October 1970, in Moscow.
· He started school in his homevillage of Ühtri and continued on the island, in Kärdla.
His high school days were spent in Tallinn at France Lycee. Ülo Sooster studied art in
Tartu during the period of 1943 1949. During his first year there, the scool was
renamed the ,,Pallas Higher Art School".
· In November of 1949 Ülo Sooster and the men belonging to his circle of friends were
arrested, acvused of hardended decadence and bourglious natsionalism (süüdistatuna
paadunud dekadendsuses ja kodanlikus natsionalismis).
· The fate carried him to a prison camp in Karanganda. Despite everything he continued
creating his art there and even found offical ,,application" as the camp's artist. In
Kranganda Ülo met his futuure wife Lidia.
· In 1956 they returned to Estonia together. During those seven years the situation in