{{short description|Estonian journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Urmas Ott | post-nominals = | image =Urmas Ott Urmas Ott.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_place = Otepää, Valga County, Estonia | birth_date = 23 April 1955 | death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|10|17|1955|4|23|df=yes}} | death_place = Tartu, Estonia | awards = 60 px|link=Order of the White Star | relatives = }} '''Urmas Ott''' or Oti Ummi, (April 23, 1955 – October 17, 2008) was an Estonian television and radio journalist, and talk show host in Soviet Union, Estonia<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.president.ee/print.me.php?gid=120295 |title=President Ilves sent a letter of condolence to Urmas Ott's family |access-date=2008-10-21 |publisher=Estonia, Office of the President |date=October 20, 2008 }}</ref> and Russia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/news/2008/10/208000.shtml |title=Dmitry Medvedev expressed his condolences over the death of journalist Urmas Ott |access-date=2008-10-17 |publisher=President of Russia |date=October 17, 2008 }}</ref>
Ott was born in Otepää<ref>http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/445350 Urmas Ott 1955–2008 (Estonian)</ref> and first appeared on the Soviet Channel One in 1986 as host of ''Television Acquaintance'' ({{langx|ru|Телевизионное знакомство}})<ref>[http://www.1tvrus.com/anonce/vremya/8439/?tz=55 Первый канал. Зарубежное и тематическое вещание / Эфир / Телевизионное знакомство. Людмила Гурченко]</ref> show. He later worked on Russian Channel One and Estonian ETV, hosting "Urmas Ott and Others" on the latter channel.
==Career== On television he interviewed well-known people, including Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky, Irina Rodnina, Ilya Glazunov, Chuck Norris<ref>{{Cite web|title=Чак Норрис. Интервью московскому телевидению 1998 год — Video {{!}} VK|url=https://vk.com/videos167589522?z=video167589522_162435667%2F6fddbe6281e4423401|access-date=2022-12-04|website=vk.com|language=en}}</ref> and Alla Pugacheva.<ref>[http://interviewmg.ru/2965/ Урмас Отт: «Со мной уже не случится очень многого»]</ref> His style was intimate, usually facing the interviewee rather than the audience.<ref name=Time>{{cite news | title = Piercing The Privacy Veil | journal = TIME Magazine | date = Oct 10, 1988 | access-date = 2008-10-17 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,968652,00.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081021100829/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,968652,00.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = October 21, 2008}}</ref> He explained humorously that he appealed to Russian viewers because "I'm not one of them and I'm not foreign."<ref name=Time/>
==Personal life== He lived in Tallinn<ref name=Time/> and died on 17 October 2008 in Tartu<ref>[http://uudised.err.ee/index.php?06140486 Suri Urmas Ott (Estonian)]</ref> from a heart attack after a bone marrow transplantation undertaken to remedy leukemia.
==Books== * ''Playback'' (1994) * ''Carte Blanche'' (1995) * ''Encore! Neeme Järvi'' (2001) * ''Isikuraamat Erika Salumäest "Surplace"'' (2002) * ''Isikuraamat Vardo Rumessenist "En face"'' (2002) * ''Asmerid. Topeltpeeglis'' (2007)
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==External links== *[https://www.etvpluss.ee/saated-list.aspx?cat=353 "Urmas Ott ja Teised" show] on ETV
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