We continue to move to the east. We are heading for the city of Jõhvi, the administrative center of Ida-Virumaa county. At this crossing there is a picturesque site, when the road comes close to the coast of the Baltic Sea. Very beautiful places! The section of the European route E20 connects the administrative center of Lääne-Virumaa county Rakvere city and the administrative center of Ida-Virumaa county Jõhvi city. The road between the two cities passes through the territory of Estonia
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And now let's look into the Estonian province! Rakvere is an analog of our regional center. A small city with a population of 16 thousand people. But has an interesting story. In the distant 1268 there was a bloody battle between the armies of the ancient Russian principalities and German and Danish crusaders. During the war, Rakvere had a large airfield, from which the German aircraft made regular raids on the blockaded Leningrad. Rakvere, in the Russian chronicles Rakovor, the German name Wesenberg (German Wesenberg) is a city in the north of Estonia, the administrative center of the county of Lääne-Virumaa, the sixth largest and most populated city in Estonia. It is located on the river Kiyula. First mentioned in the XIII century, founded near a feudal castle. In prehistoric times and the beginning of the Middle Ages, the Estonians named this city Tarbapea (Russian head of the bull). According to an ancient Estonian legend, once upon a time there was a bull, which was the size of most of Estonia. And when he was caught, his head hit Rakvere, and his body was in Tartu (Tarbatu). At 7 km from the city on February 18, 1268, there was a battle of Russian troops with the combined forces of German and Danish crusaders (Rakovorska battle). In 1347-1558 the city was owned by the Livonian Order. The city was then owned by Russia, Rzeczpospolita and Sweden. During the Northern War, in 1710, he moved to Russia. In 1919-1940 and since 1991 - as part of independent Estonia. In 1950-1991 he was the center of Rakvere district. In the late 1920s, an airfield was built on the northern outskirts of the city by the Defense Forces of the Republic of Estonia. Here was based a separate division of the Rakvere Air Force of the Republic of Estonia. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the airfield was used by the Luftwaffe air force and units of "air defense assistants". February 26, 1944 on the airfield was struck by aviation from the Leningrad front, as a result of which the airfield was put into non-working condition. After the war the airfield was rebuilt. During the period from July 1945 to 1954, parts of the 277th Aviation Krasnoselskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov divisions were deployed at the airfield on the Il-2 and Il-10 aircraft. In 1954, the regiments relocated to the Pribilovo airfield (Leningrad region), and the airfield was transferred to the 6th Rakvere border guard of the Order of the Red Star to the detachment of the Baltic Border District. In 1983, the shooting of the feature film "Anxious Departure" was conducted at the airfield. Since the withdrawal of Russian troops from Estonia since 1993, the airfield is not used. Population - 16 000 people
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakvere
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It's time to move on. We are heading east, towards the Russian border, or more precisely, we are heading for St. Petersburg. It is in St. Petersburg that we turn to the west, to Finland, we will go round the Gulf of Finland in a semicircle and avoid landing on a car ferry in Tallinn, and we will still admire the beautiful views of Estonia and the wonderful nature around St. Petersburg and the Karelian Isthmus. But so far to St. Petersburg is still far away, and on the way to it we will visit a few more interesting Estonian cities. Now we take a course on Rakvere, the administrative center of the Estonian county of Lääne-Virumaa. It is 104 km from Tallinn. Of these, 100 km is a beautiful high-speed Estonian highway! Already further behind Rakvere the highway will again turn into an ordinary automobile road. We are moving along the European road E20. The section of the European route E20 connects the capital of Estonia with the city of Tallinn and the administrative center of the county of Lääne-Virumaa, the city of Rakvere. The road between the two cities passes through the territory of Estonia
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Finally we reached the last Baltic capital - the city of Tallinn! The capital of Estonia is as ancient as its brothers Riga and Vilnius. In Tallinn, too, there is an old city. And he is also very handsome, as in Riga and Vilnius. And in the city there is always a huge number of tourists, especially in its old part. And the symbol of Tallinn - the tower Long Herman - plunges everyone into the unique atmosphere of the medieval city. There are many places of interest in the capital of Estonia - the Old Town, the Church of St. Olaf, the Tallinn Town Hall, the Dome Cathedral, the Tower of Long Hermann, the Toompea Castle, the Kadriorg Park, the Kadriorg Palace and Park Ensemble and many others. Tallinn is the smallest of the three Baltic capitals. Here lives 441 thousand people. Nevertheless, in Tallinn, especially in its old part, you can easily get lost if you do not have a map near you or a GPS-navigator. The city is strongly stretched along the coast of the Baltic Sea (the Gulf of Finland). There are landscaped beaches where you can relax, and in good summer weather, even swim in the cool Baltic Sea. The Tallinn Sea Port plays an important role in the life of the city. It is one of the largest ports on the Baltic Sea. From the port of Tallinn to the capital of Finland Helsinki, several car ferries leave every day. The name of the original founder of Tallinn is unknown. There is a legend about the origin of the city of Tallinn. Once upon a time, a thousand, and maybe more years ago, a Danish king was terribly angry with his daughter. His son and daughter flushed to each other with forbidden love. The king, learning about this, decided to expel his daughter from his country, because he considered her the main culprit. Punishment cruel father came up with a severe. He ordered the princess to be put on a ship that does not have a steering wheel, and to release the ship into the open sea, so that his daughter never returned home. The ship wandered for a long time on the waves, until the storm struck him to the northern coast of Estonia. The princess ordered to anchor and went by boat to the shore. After some time she noticed a hill on the coast. The place it was necessary for the princess so much that she wished to lay the city here. The exile brought with her from her home country a lot of gold and silver, and the goodness was transferred from the ship to her tent on a hill. The princess called the people and ordered her gold and silver to build a luxurious castle, and around it a city. For those who showed courage and zeal, she complained at home. So over time, gathered around the castle a lot of people, and the city has grown significantly, has become beautiful and rich, and people in it lived peacefully and happily. So, the legend says, there was Tallinn (Taanilinn) - "the Danish city". Tallinn - a city where many films popular in the USSR (and now!) Were shot - "Seventeen Moments of Spring", "The Crown of the Russian Empire, or again elusive", "The Adventures of Electronics". In the USSR, in the USSR, there was a film studio of its own. Tallinn is the city where the famous explorer and navigator was born Admiral Pavel Krusenstern, Soviet and Estonian singer and composer Tõnis Mägi. In Tallinn, also the chief ideologue of Hitler's National Socialism, Alfred Rosenberg, was subsequently executed by the verdict of the tribunal in Nuremberg. The first written mention of Tallinn was left from 1141. In ancient Russian chronicles the city is mentioned under the name of Kolyvan. Tallinn (Tallinn (Tallinn - [tʲˑlˑinˑ])) is the capital of Estonia, a major passenger and cargo seaport. Tallinn is the political, scientific, economic and cultural center of Estonia. In the city there are all the branches of power of the republic, as well as many secondary professional and higher educational institutions. The settlement that existed on the site of the present Tallinn was first mentioned in 1154, in the work of the Arabian geographer Al-Idrisi as Quoluwany, who described it as "a small city more like a fortress", while noting a large harbor. In the Russian chronicles the fortress is mentioned as Kolyvan. Later, the city was called Revel. In 1219, captured by the Danes. Becoming Danish, the city experienced constant forays of Estonians and the German Order of Swordmen, who by this time had already mastered the territories of modern Latvia and modern southern Estonia. In 1227, Revel was captured by knights-swordsmen. In 1238-1346 again belonged to Denmark. In 1346, Denmark sold its part of Estland to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, who soon handed it over to the land master of the Teutonic Order in Livonia. In 1347, the city of Revel was confirmed by its privileges. The beginning of the XV - the middle of the XVI century - the golden age of ancient Revel: the city was part of the Hanseatic League and played an important role in the Baltic Sea region. During the Livonian War in 1561 the Livonian Order ceased to exist. Russian troops approached the limits of Revel. Seeking a new patron, the Revel burghers turned to Poland and Sweden for help. Not waiting for military assistance from Poland, the city on June 6, 1561 swore allegiance to the Swedish king Erik XIV. At the same time, Revel became the largest trading city of the Swedish kingdom, surpassing the size and volume of foreign trade in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. In 1568 the city was subjected to sea blockade by the Polish fleet, in 1569 - bombarded by the Danish fleet, and in 1570-1571 - by the siege of the troops of the Danish Prince Magnus, proclaimed by the king of Livonia. At the beginning of 1577 the Russian troops again besieged Revel, but the three-month siege ended in nothing. After the conclusion of the Russian-Swedish peace in 1583, the northern part of Estonia remained in the possession of Sweden and was named the duchy of Estland, centered in Reval. During the Northern War, Revel was captured by Russian troops under the command of General R. H. Baur, who rose to the city on August 18, 1710. Revel became the provincial city of Revel, then the Estland province. At the end of the reign of Emperor Paul I, the city underwent a naval blockade by the British fleet, and in 1854-1855 - by a combined Anglo-French fleet. In 1918, Estonia's independence was proclaimed in Reval. However, under the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Article IV) between Germany and the RSFSR, the country was occupied by the Germans. In 1919, Revel officially received the modern Estonian name - Tallinn. As a result of the signing of the secret additional protocol on the delimitation of spheres of interest to the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR of August 23, 1939, Estonia was placed in the sphere of the interests of the USSR. In June-July 1940, a revolutionary change of government was held in Estonia and Sovietization of the country was started. On July 21, 1940, the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was formed, which became part of the USSR on August 6, 1940. Tallinn became the capital of the Estonian SSR. During the Second World War, the city suffered from bombing raids. Soviet troops defended Tallinn for 23 days - from August 5 to 28, 1941, after which they were forced to leave it. On September 22, 1944, during the Tallinn operation, Soviet troops regained control over the city. After the war, the city significantly expanded its borders. New "sleeping" areas of the city were built - Mustamäe, Väike-Õismäe, Lasnamäe. In the framework of the Summer Olympic Games in 1980, an Olympic regatta was held in Tallinn. Since 1991, after the collapse of the USSR, Tallinn is the capital of an independent state Estonia. In 1997, the historical part of Tallinn - Old Town - was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallin
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We leave again on the road. This time our goal will be the capital of Estonia - the city of Tallinn. From Pärnu to Tallinn 128 km. The road is of excellent quality. We are moving along the national highway №4 (section of the European route Е67). Closer to Tallinn, the nature around the trail resembles the nature of the north of the Khmelnitsky region! About this, I already wrote, when we drove the site Shepetivka - Exactly. The same pines, the same road, just north of Shepetovka for 1000 kilometers! It is possible and confuse. After Tallinn we turn east towards Narva and St. Petersburg. On the Tallinn-Helsinki car ferry we will not be loaded, but we will drive around the Gulf of Finland almost in a circle, on the way to Narva, St. Petersburg and Vyborg.
The section of the European route E67 connects the administrative center of Pärnu County to the city of Pärnu and the capital of Estonia, the city of Tallinn.
The road between the two cities passes through the territory of Estonia
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We begin to get to know Estonia more closely. Pärnu is the first Estonian city on our way to Norway. In the city there are 40 thousand people, according to Estonian standards this is a fairly large city. Pärnu is the administrative center of Pärnu County. It is located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Features of the architecture of Pärnu - a huge number of wooden houses in one or two floors and the most diverse colors! The city is very cute and clean. Pärnu is a resort town in Estonia. There is a large sandy beach. In summer weather, the Baltic Sea in the area of Pärnu warms up to 22-23 degrees Celsius, and you can swim here. Pärnu is located approximately in the middle of the road between Riga and Tallinn. Pärnu (est. Pärnu), rus. Pernau, Pernau, a port city in the south-west of Estonia with a population of 40 401 inhabitants (2012), is the fourth largest and the largest city in Estonia. Pärnu is the main resort of Estonia on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It is located near the mouth of the Pärnu river with the same name, on the way from Riga to Tallinn. The city has a long and picturesque sandy beach in the northern part of the Gulf of Riga. The official year of foundation is 1251. This year, Bishop Saare-Lääne (Ezelvik) moved from the old residence of Lihula to the castle of Perone on the right bank of the river Pärnu. In the same year, Perone received the rights of the city. But already in 1263 during the military campaign of Lithuanians Perone was destroyed. The new city began to grow mainly on the left bank of the river in the territory of the Teutonic Order, in connection with which the German form of the name was fixed - Pernau. He was a member of the Hanseatic League and was of great importance to the whole of Livonia as an ice-free seaport. After the Livonian War, he became Swedish possessor. According to the results of the Polish-Swedish war (1600-1611), the city from March 1609 to June 1617 was under the authority of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and then again went to Sweden. More details of this event are described in the article "Taking Pernau." During the Great Northern War in 1710, he took over the Russian Empire and returned the Russian name Pernov, which was secured by the Nystadt Peace Treaty of 1721. In 1710, the first Orthodox parish was founded in the city. In Pernov lived Abram Petrovich Hannibal - an associate of Peter the Great and Pushkin's great-grandfather. About the life of Hannibal in Pernov, the poet David Samoilov wrote a poem. The next 200 years were peaceful in the history of the city. Pernov became one of the main Russian ports on the Baltic Sea - in the 18th century more goods were transported through it than through the Reval (Tallinn) port. In the 1860s stone piers (moles) were poured into the mouth of the river to prevent clogging of the river mouth. In 1843 Pernov ceased to be a fortified city. Many fortress buildings were razed, and the rest began to be used for walking around the city. Then the transformation of Pernov into a resort town began. The first bathhouses were built in 1837. The city developed and industry. In 1913 there were 15 enterprises in Pernov (the largest is the pulp and paper mill "Waldhof"). During the First World War in 1915, German ships appeared on Pernov's raid and, because of fears of landing of the German landing force, the Waldhof factory was blown up by order of the commandant of the city. The attempt to establish Soviet power was foiled by the occupation of the city by German troops on February 25, 1918. In 1919 Pernov was renamed to Pärnu. The city developed a textile industry. A linen factory was founded. In 1924, the Communist Party of Estonia attempted an uprising. However, because of the suppression of the main focus of the uprising in Tallinn, the plans of the conspirators in Pärnu remained unfulfilled. In accordance with the secret additional protocol on the delimitation of spheres of interest to the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union of August 23, 1939, Estonia entered the zone of interests of the USSR. Soon, at the request of the USSR, Soviet military bases were stationed in Estonia. June 20, 1940 in Pärnu, Soviet power was proclaimed. Repressions against the inhabitants of the city began. The industrial enterprises were nationalized. At the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, on July 8, 1941, German troops occupied Pärnu. The German occupation authorities and members of the Estonian militarized organization "Omakaitse" shot about a thousand citizens, including 137 Jews, of whom 34 were children. The Second World War interrupted the development of the resort. On September 23, 1944, Pärnu was liberated during the Tallinn operation from the German invaders by the troops of the Leningrad Front under the command of Marshal LA Govorov. In the postwar period, a large fish cannery was built in the city. The textile and woodworking industries developed. Accelerated development and the resort. The sanatoriums "Estonia", "Siprus", "Rahu", "Tervis" were opened.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pärnu
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It's time to say goodbye to Latvia! She, like Lithuania, was hospitable to us. Now we are going to Estonia. The road is the same - E67. To the border with Latvia it is referred to as A1 highway, on Estonian territory - national road number 4. We cross the Latvian-Estonian border without problems, we remind that customs are not there, as the entire Baltic region is in the European Union. We are heading to the city of Pärnu, the administrative center of Pärnu County. The road is very picturesque, on the left is the coast of the Baltic Sea.
The section of the European route E67, the administrative center of Salacgrivsky Krai, the city of Salacgriva and the administrative center of Pärnu County, Pärnu.
The road between the two cities passes through the territory of Latvia and Estonia
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Salacgriva is the last Latvian city with the status of a regional center, which we met in Latvia. It is located only 14 km from the Latvian-Estonian border on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The population of Salacgriva is only 3 and a half thousand people. This city was founded in due time as a fishing village. Salacgriva (Latvian, Salacgriva, Salatsi, Salis) is a city in the north of Latvia, the administrative center of the Salacgriva region. Until July 1, 2009 was part of Limbazhsky district. It is located on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth of the Salaca River. The distance to other cities: Riga - 103 km, Limbaži - 50 km, Valmiera - 95 km. The area is 12.57 km ². The name of the city reflects its location in the mouth of Salaca. The city was founded as a fishing village of Liv, and to this day preserves the aura of a fishing town.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salacgriva
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We continue to move towards Estonia. We have to visit the last regional center of Latvia - the city of Salacgriva. The road to Salacgriva passes in close proximity to the coast of the Baltic Sea, and for 10 km it is already near the shore.
The section of the European route E67 connects the administrative center of the Saukrasta Territory with the city of Saulkrasti and the administrative center of Salacgrivsky Krai the city of Salacgriva.
The road between the two cities passes through the territory of Latvia
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Now on the left way across Latvia to us settlements of larger places will meet. Before the Estonian border, we will pass through two smaller towns, which are the regional centers. We drive to Saulkrasti. It is a small town stretched along the Baltic Sea coast, located in a very picturesque place. Saulkrasti surroundings are considered one of the most picturesque places in Latvia. And in Saulkrasti itself there are only 3200 people, but this is a city! There are several sights in Saulkrasti. The Latvian bicycle museum is the only one in Latvia. White dune from the dazzling white sand on the coast of the Baltic Sea also attracts many tourists. Saulkrasti (Latvian: Saulkrasti - translation of "Sunny Shores", formerly German Neubad) is a city in Latvia, the center of the Saulkrasti region. The population is 3200 people. The area of the city is 4.8 km ². The town of Vidzeme seaside is 17 km long, from Lilaste to Limbazi border in Skulta. Saulkrasti is a city of four rivers: Inchupe, Peterupa, Kishupe, Aga. The city is surrounded by numerous country cooperative societies - Silmala, Peterup, Jubilee, Selga, Kishupe, Saule, etc. Since 1997, Saulkrasti every summer hosts a jazz festival - Saulkrasti Jazz.
Link: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saulkrasti
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