Sitting from the left:

• Minister of War Paul Lill (arr. in 1941, died in 1942 in prison camp in Sverdlovsk region, family was deported in 1941),
• Minister of Agriculture Artur Tupits (arr. in 1940, died in 1941in Solikamsk prison camp),
• Prime Minister Kaarel-August Eenpalu (arr. in 1940, died in 1942 in Vjatka prison camp in Kirov region, his family was deported in 1941),
• Minister of Foreign Affairs Karl Selter (did not return to Estonia from Genf, where he represented the Republic of Estonia in the League of Nations and therefore escaped repression),

• Minister of Economic Leo Sepp (arrested in 1941, died in 1941 in Ussolje prison camp in Perm region).

Standing from the left:

• Head of the Chancery of state Karl Terras (arr. in 1941, executed in 1942 in Vjatka prison camp in Kirov region),
• Minister of Education Aleksander Jaakson (arr. in 1941, executed in 1942 in Kirov),
• Minister of Propaganda Ants Oiderma (arr. in 1940, sentenced to death in 1941),
• Minister of Transport Nikolai Viitak (arr. in 1941, executed in 1942 in prison camp in Sverdlovsk region; his family was deported in 1941),
• Minister of Justice Albert-Wilhelm Assor (arrested in 1940, died in 1943 in Krasnojarsk prison camp, his family escaped abroad),
• Minister of Labour Oskar Kask (arr. in 1941, executed in 1942 in prison camp in Sverdlovsk region),
• Minister of Internal Affairs Richard Veermaa (arr. in 1940, died in 1942 in Ussolje prison camp in Perm region),
• State Audit Office Karl Soonpää (was killed near Elva in 1944 in the fight against the Soviet parachutists).

Photo taken in Tallinn in 1939. Only Minister of Foreign Affairs of this government of the Republic of Estonia escaped from the Soviet massacre.