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Visit to Narva in the North-East and a riverrafting through Vohandu in the South-East! |
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From the middle ages the frontiers between Russia in the east and Estonia which was ruled by German knights and then Sweden in the west were most visible where the streams of the river Narva ran. The city Ivangorod was built on the east side of the river, but the city Narva was built on the west side. Still these two cities lie on each side of the river and sometimes the distance is not more than 30 meters. The borders between are highly guarded and the traffic of cars and people is big every minute of the day. But at the banks of each side of the river small children play, fish and shout at each other in Russian, the children at the east side are Russian citiziens and the children at the west side are Estonian citizen but their mothertongue is Russian. 98% of the inhabitants in Narva have Russian as their mothertongue. |
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Here is the city hall (Rajakodi) in Narva, it�s old and bigger than in Tartu and Tallinn, but they are located in bigger and more prosperous cities and therefore the renevation is going better there. From 1991 the population of Narva has gone from 100.000 to 80.000 and things like renevating old city hall is not on high on the priority list in times of money shortage! |
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On the left side of the photo you see the fortress of Ivangorod the Russian city, on the west side is Narva. In the 17th century when Peter the Great ruled Russia and Karl Gustav the king of Sweden ruled Estonia they started a competition by building higher fortress than the other on the banks of Narva, that caused a great war that ended in Tallinn, when the Swedish force had to flee to Stockholm, Russia then ruled Estonia to 1918 when they became independent because of the Bolsyevik revolution! |
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In the fortress of Narva! |
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The last statue of Lenin in all the Baltics is ofcourse located in the Russian speaking city Narva and interestingly enough facing Ivangorod! |
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Bratislav church in Narva, culturally and geographically Narva is much closer to Russia than Estonia, located on the borders and much nearer St. Petersburg than it�s capital Tallinn! |
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Narva linn |
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On Wednesday morning, the day after the trip to Narva I went riverrafting through Vohandu. Borrowed Tiinas car and headed on to the town Voru to meet the others in the group! |
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We made the boats ready! |
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To enjoy peaceful river and beautiful Estonian forests! |
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What a freedom! |
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