Heiki Kranich

Heiki Kranich (9 October 1961 – 13 January 2026) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the Estonian parliament (Riigikogu) from 1992 to 1999 and from 2019 to 2023.

Life and career Kranich was born in 1961, in Haapsalu, then Soviet-occupied Estonia. In 1991, he graduated from the State University of Telecommunications in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) where he specialized in telecommunications engineering.

Between 1983 and 1991, he worked as a mechanic and the head of the Haapsalu Division at the state-owned telephone network. From 1991 to 1992, he was head of the Haapsalu branch of the West Estonian Bank (Lääne-Eesti Pank).