Ida-Virumaa |
It is often possible to hear, that if you did not see the fine Estonian city of Ida-Virumaa - you did not see Estonia. Since times of medieval Estonia an influential and drawing look Tallinn on the one hand and Ляяэнемаа, with the islands and historically resort city of Pjarnu - with another, became already traditional Estonian Mecca for tourist pilgrimage. Ida-Virumaa in this plan absolutely незаслуженно, remained in a role poor forgotten the child.
The geographical arrangement of this region obliges it for a role of the intermediary between the east and the West as in geographical, and social, political value.
Historically developed basic binding way between Baltic sea and Russia passed just through the bridge. In 1870 the railway Tallinn-Petersburg which operates and to this day has been started.
Already owing to site Ida-Virumaa it is possible to guess, that the most part of its inhabitants from Russia, especially in Narva and on city approaches. This circumstance only enriches a local cultural heritage and does its diverse.
Double culture Ida-Virumaa became a place of a meeting of East and Western earths. Many-sided Ida-Virumaa.
Ida-Virumaa is the centre сланцехимии, it is the manufacturer отнчественного fuel from the beginning of the century, is more exact since 1922 when the first slate mine in Кивиыли has entered into operation. Since then local men already earn some generations for a life miner's work.
