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Tallinna Lauluväljak (Tallinn Song Festival Grounds)
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From www.laulupidu.ee:
One of Tallinn's most worthwhile places to visit is located at the foot of the Lasnamägi area of the city on Pirita Road near the sea. This place is the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds where the All-Estonian Song Festivals have been held since 1928. Also festive ceremonies, concerts, open-air performances, exhibitions, and other events take place in this vast area. In 1988 several manifestations abounding with people were organized where patriotic songs were sung and blue-black-white flags were flown after a lengthy time of them being forbidden. These summer days were later called the "singing revolution". At the end of the summer, on September 11, a huge event took place at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds entitled "The Song Of Estonia". More than 300,000 people participated, and for the first time the re-establishment of Estonia's independence was openly demanded.
Lauluväljak
The most dominant feature of the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds is the Song festival stage - the only one of its kind. The current grandstand-like sounding board structure, which holds up to 24,000 singers, was erected in place of the previous one for the 1960 All-Estonian Song Festival. The construction of the song festival stage is original and unique. The space between the point of support of the front arch is 73 meters. The back arch unites with it at the same points. In between the two arches is the concavo-convex screen made out of wooden shields, which has two convexities - a hyperboloid paraboloid. This way, all the groups of voices can be distinguished but the sound as a whole is directed out to the Song Festival Grounds.
The width of the song festival stage is 120 meters. The 43 steps of the center section rise 18 meters high. The height of the center of the front arch is 36 meters and its diameter is 2 meters. Both of the side walls of the song festival stage reach out to the towers. During the festival, radio and television broadcasts can be made from the south tower. At the top of the 42-meter-high north tower is the festival flame. The building materials of these structures include locally mixed limestone, concrete, wood, and metal. The creators of the project (A. Kotli and H. Sepmann, architects; E. Paalman, engineer; H. Laul and H. Oruvee, consultants) were successful in designing an architectural masterpiece that is whole and unique. This includes a concavity in the shape of an ellipse which is where the audience sits. This area is 200 meters in length and 175 meters in width.

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Õismäe, Tallinn
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Soviet era suburb of Õismäe looks more interesting from space than from the ground

Allveelaev Lembit (The Submarine Lembit)
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From www.tourism.tallinn.ee:
the Lembit is the only intact submarine in the Baltics. It was built in England in Barrow-in-Furness in 1936 for the Republic of Estonia and has sailed under both Estonian and Soviet flags. Inside the submarine, you can test a seaman's cot, sit in the radio operator's room and peer through the periscope at Tallinn's Old Town.
Pictures at www.online.ee/~peeprada/.

Tallinna Teletorn (Tallinn TV Tower)
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From Wikipedia:
The Tallinn TV Tower (Tallinna teletorn) is a free-standing structure with an observation deck, built to provide better telecommunication services for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics regatta event (see Yachting at the 1980 Summer Olympics). It is located in Tallinn, Estonia. The tower has a specification height of 314 metres (1030.2 ft), some sources state 312.6 metres (1026.6 ft). Building is administered by a public company Levira (formerly Estonian Broadcasting Transmission Center Ltd) and is a member in World Federation of Great Towers.
The tower was designed by architects David Baziladze and Juri Sinis. The cornerstone was laid in September 30, 1975, and the building was inaugurated in July 11, 1980. The tower body is constructed of reinforced concrete rings 50 centimetres thick, weighing a total of 17,000 metric tons, with total weight being approximately 20,000 tons. The tower survived a fire during construction stage.
The observation deck, which was originally designed to have a rotating section, is located 170 metres above ground, and has a diameter of 38 metres. Besides stairs, it can be accessed by two express elevators, taking 45 seconds to travel to the top.

Icebreaker Tarmo
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Name ship of the Finnish Tarmo-class, she was built in 1963 and served under Finnish flag until 1993. It is now the only working icebrreaker in Estonia and it is not to be confused with earlier Tarmo, the World's oldest surviving icebreaker (1907) which is currently a museum in Kotka, Finland.

Pirita Olümpia Purjespordikeskus (Pirita Olympic Sailing Center)
From Wikipedia:
Yachting at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by six events. All they were held at the Pirita Yachting Centre, situated in Tallinn Bay, on the Baltic Sea near Tallinn. The schedule started on July 22 and ended on August 1.

Kadrioru Loss and Kunstimuuseum (Kadriog Palace and Art Museum)
From www2.tourism.tallinn.ee:
Peter I began building the palace in 1718, and it was called Ekaterinenthal, or Catherinenthal, in honour of Catherine I.
The architect of the temporary summer residence palace and park was the Italian Niccolo Michetti, who was later involved with the famous Peterhog Palace. It is said that the tsar himself laid the first foundation stones for the palace.
Currently, the baroque Kadriorg Palace is housing the foreign art collection of the Estonian Art Museum. The collection contains over more than 900 Western European and Russian paintings from 16th to 20th centuries, about 3,500 prints, over 3,000 sculptures and gems, and about 1,600 decorative arts objects (historic furniture, porcelain, glass etc.).
The museum organizes concerts and theatre performances, lectures and receptions, in addition to art exhibitions.
The upper flower garden, behind the palace, has been reconstructed in 18th-century style, and is open to visitors in the summer.

Bronze Soldier of Tallinn
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The Bronze Soldier (Estonian: Pronkssõdur), originally Monument to the Liberators of Tallinn (Estonian: Tallinna vabastajate monument, Russian: Монумент освободителям Таллина), sometimes called the Tõnismäe Monument, was a Soviet World War II memorial in central Tallinn, Estonia. The monument consisted of a mastaba-like structure of dolomite and a two meter (6.5ft) statue of a soldier in Soviet uniform located on Tõnismägi (Lit. St Anthony's hill) in close proximity to a small mass grave of reburied Soviet soldiers' remains, created in April 1945.

Icebreaker Suur Tõll
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Icebreaker Suur Tõll is the largest preserved steam icebreaker in the world. She was built by the Vulcan Werft, Stettin 1912-14 for the Russian government as the Tsar Mihhail Feodorovits. During the Russian Revolution she was renamed Volynets and in March 1918 she was captured by the Finns and renamed Wäinämöinen. She was then handed over to Estonia in 1922 and again renamed. Now she became Suur Tõll after a mythological hero from Saaremaa. In 1940 she was captured by the Soviets and became Volynets again and served until early 1980's. Today she ibelongs to Eesti Meremuuseum (Estonian Maritime Museum) and is currently undergoing restoration.

Kadrioru Staadion (Kadriorg Stadium)
From eurokarikas.dev.vision.ee:
The Kadriorg stadium (appendix 3) that was renovated in the year 2001 has received very high evaluations from many European managers. The stadium has Polytan track cover, modern equipment and info-systems. Besides the good competition conditions the stadium catches the eye with its beautiful architecture and its naturally beautiful location.
Also pictures at www.fclevadia.ee.

Estonian President's Palace
From www.inyourpocket.com:
For a few years during the first period of independence, the Estonian president worked out of the Kadriorg Palace. In 1938, a new, purpose-built presidential palace was built just up the hill in a style that echoes the Kadriorg, but without quite so much flourish. Tourists can’t normally see the inside, but they can watch the honour guards marching out front.

Paks Margareeta (Fat Margaret Tower) and Suur Rannavärav (Great Coastal Gate)
From www2.tourism.tallinn.ee:
The Great Coastal Gate (Suur Rannavärav) and Fat Margaret's Tower (Paks Margareeta) were built as a defense on the seaward side of town, but also for impressing visitors coming in from the sea.
The Great Coastal Gate, built along with the city wall, is situated on the northern side of the Old Town, near the harbour.
During the reconstruction of the gate in the early 16th century, the cannon tower Fat Margaret was added. The round tower, with 155 loopholes, a diameter of 25 meters, and a height of about 20 meters, was built to protect the harbour. It got its name from the fact that it was indeed the stoutest tower in the city wall. Through history, the cannon tower has also served as a storehouse for gunpowder and weapons, and as a prison.
Fat Margaret's Tower now houses the Estonian Maritime Museum, with a permanent exhibit on Estonian maritime and fishing history. The viewing platform on the roof affords a lovely view onto the Old Town and the bay.

Lake Peipus
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Between Estonia and Russia

Eduard Vilde Muuseum (Eduard Vilde Memorial Museum)
From www.tourism.tallinn.ee:
Literary classic Eduard Vilde’s (1865-1933) Memorial Museum is housed in the castellan's baroque house in Kadriorg Park.
The house was built around 1850, and the palace governor worked here at that time. The writer Vilde lived on the first floor from 1927 to 1933. Five rooms are exhibited with contemporary interiors, as well as a documentary exhibit on the author's life and work in three rooms. The Castellan House Gallery, with art exhibitions, is located on the second floor.

Saku Suurhall
Saku Suurhall or Saku Arena is the largest sports and music arena in Estonia. It can accommodate up to 10,000 spectators. Name, by the way, is analoguous for the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki as both Saku and Hartwall are well known brewery companies

Haapsalu Castle
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Haapsalu Castle (also Haapsalu Episcopal Castle, Estonian: Haapsalu piiskopilinnus) is a castle with cathedral in Haapsalu, western Estonia. It was founded in the thirteenth century to be a center for the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek. When there is a full moon in the month of August, it is said that an image of a maiden, the White Lady, appears on the inner wall of the chapel.

Maarjamäe Memorial Complex
From www.inyourpocket.com:
The pointed obelisk alongside the highway to Pirita Beach is part of the Maarjamäe War Memorial complex, a cement-filled park similar in its imposing style to other large complexes created in the USSR in the 1960s and 70s. The spire was put up in 1960 in memory of Russians who died in 1918, while the surrounding inspirational concrete and iron figures were added in 1975 to honour Soviet soldiers killed trying to fend off the Nazis in 1941.

Russalka Monument
From www.inyourpocket.com:
This striking sculpture of an angel facing out into the sea horizon is a memorial to the 177 men of the Russalka, a Russian military ship that tragically sunk while en route to Helsinki in 1893. The monument has become a famous Tallinn landmark, and a traditional spot for Russian couples to lay flowers on their wedding day. Earlier this year Estonian marine archeologists made news by located the wreck of the Russalka, which was about 25km south of Helsinki.

Kadrioru Luigetiigi Juures (Kadriorg Park Swan Lake)
This artificial, rectangular pond with a picturesque gazebo in the middle looks like something out of a Chekhov play, and is a required stop on any tour of Kadriorg. Bring plenty of film for the camera and food for the ducks and swans.
Also, a picture at www.epl.ee.

Peeter I Majamuuseum (Peter the Great's Cottage)
From www.tourism.tallinn.ee

Tallinn Airport (Ülemiste Airport) (TLL)
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Tallinn University of Applied Sciences
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TTK University of Applied Sciences (Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool) offers competitive technical education in the field of engineering where practical subjects and trainings for engineers and technicians constitute a considerable part of the learning process. TTK UAS is the largest university of applied sciences in Estonia, offering higher education to 3100 students.
TTK UAS is proud of its long history and continuing traditions. The predecessor of TTK UAS, Tallinn Commercial School for Boys, was founded in 1915. The process of transferring the curricula from the level of vocational education to the level of applied higher education started in 1992.
The vision of TTK UAS is to become an internationally recognized university of applied sciences. The mission of TTK UAS is to support the development of a sustainable society by offering contemporary applied higher education in a creative, innovative and active environment.
Study programs
TTK UAS offers 4-year study programs on Bachelor’s level (240 ECTS), Distant Studies and in-service trainings for professionals.
TTK UAS has five faculties with 12 study programs

Kalevi Keskstaadion
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Home pitch to JK Kalev Tallinn

Maarjamäe Palace
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A. Le Coq Arena
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Home pitch for the Estonia national football team and FC Flora Tallinn. Also serves as an outdoor concert venue

Pirita Top Spa Hotel
From www.topspa.ee:
Pirita TOP SPA, the largest spa-hotel in Tallinn, located right on the picturesque seaside just 5 km from the city centre and astonishing Old Town, by the Pirita River mouth close to Pirita's beautiful beach.
The world of SPA Health and Beauty
Sport Center Swimming pool, Saunas and Gym. Restaurant A’ la carte, Lobby Bar, Sport Cafe Conference Rooms with magnificent sea view.
Also home to the Temptation Island Casino run by Olympic Casino.

Mikkeli Muuseum (Mikkel Museum)
From www.tourism.tallinn.ee:
J. Mikkel's collection is one of the few private collections from the post-war period. The extensive collection includes Western European, Russian and Chinese art (paintings, prints and china) from the 16th - 20th centuries. Icons from the 14th - 19th centuries are displayed on the ground floor.

1975 Lincoln Town Car Limousine
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Tallinna Botaanikaaed (Tallinn Botanic Garden) (TBG)
The Tallinn Botanical Garden contains over 8 000 plant species and classes.
The Botanics, established in 1961, cover an area of 110 hectares. They contain five large collections on open land: an arboretum, a rosary, perennials, bulbous plants and summer flowers. However, there are many more individual exhibitions, including a heather garden, low-growth bulbous plants, lilies, a stone garden, peonies, astilbes, primroses, and useful plants. Altogether, the Gardens exhibit over 5000 plant classes and species.
The majority of plants growing in Estonia’s parks and gardens can be seen here, as well as rarer plant types and new decorative plant species which can survive in Estonia’s climate.
There are around 2400 taxons in the greenhouse plants collection (with 2100 m² of glassed-in surface area). Beside the plant groups which are widely recognized and which grow in broad areas (palms, cactuses, thick-leaved plants, orchids, araceae), there are also many species from Australia, Madagascar, the Canary Islands, and elsewhere. Numerous useful plants are on display (coffee, cacao, vanilla, cardamom, banana, date, lemon, olive, locust, black pepper, and others), as well as plenty, which are suitable as houseplants.
Specialized exhibits change nearly every month, and cover such themes as medicinal and poisonous plants; exotic fruits; taste and smell; mushrooms; various cutting flowers; and much more. Thematic tours are also available throughout the year, most popular among them being the summer-night aroma tours and the rose days.

Ruins of the Convent of St. Birgitta (Püha Birgittale)
The Convent of St. Bridget was the largest convent of Old Livonia.
Established by Tallinn’s wealthy merchants in 1407, construction was begun on the convent itself immediately. It is a typical example of late Gothic churches in Tallinn. The church was destroyed in the second half of the 16th century, and today only the western limestone gable, 35 meters high, and side walls remain standing. In the 17th century, a farmers' cemetery developed in front of the ruins.
The convent was unique in that its constitution allowed male priests to live there and organise everyday religious ceremonies and processions on religious holidays. There are also tales of secret underground passageways between the convent and the city of Tallinn.
Today, the convent is a pleasant spot for relaxation and sightseeing. In addition to the impressive ruins themselves and their surrounding greenery, the site is a venue for open-air concerts and a convent day celebration, where a traditional fair takes place in the convent grounds.

Narva Kreenholmi Staadion
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Porsche and Bentley Continental Flying Spur

Russalka Memorial
The Russalka Memorial is a bronze monument sculpted by Amandus Adamson, erected on 7 September 1902 in Kadriorg, Tallinn, to mark the ninth anniversary of the sinking of the Russian warship Rusalka, or "Mermaid", which sank en route to Finland in 1893.
The monument depicts an angel holding an Orthodox cross towards the assumed direction of the shipwreck. During the Soviet rule the cross was removed and the angel pointed to the sea with her bare hand. The model for the angel was the sculptor's housekeeper Juliana Rootsi, whose grandson is the politician Tiit Made

Tallinn TV Tower
http://www.teletorn.ee/en
The Tallinn TV Tower (Tallinna teletorn) is a free-standing structure with an observation deck, built to provide better telecommunication services for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics regatta event (see Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics). It is located near Pirita, six km north-east of the Tallinn city center. The tower has a specified height of 314 m (1030.2 ft), though some sources put it at 312.6 m (1026.6 ft). The building is administered by the public company Levira (formerly Estonian Broadcasting Transmission Center Ltd) and is a member of the World Federation of Great Towers.
The tower was designed by architects David Baziladze and Juri Sinis. The cornerstone was laid on September 30, 1975, and the building was inaugurated July 11, 1980 (although the first transmission took place in 1979). The tower body was constructed of reinforced concrete rings 50 cm thick that weigh a total of 17,000 metric tons, and the total tower weight is approximately 20,000 tons. The tower survived a fire during the construction stage.

Russian T-34/85 tank
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Circus

Klooga concentration camp
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Hummer H1 Limousine
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Lake Suurjärv in Rõuge (It is the deepest lake in Estonia (38 metres))
Lake Suurjärv - Big Lake, or as the locals call it 'Witch's Lake' - forms part of the chain of lakes in Rõuge valley. Suurjärv formed at the end of the last ice age from the action of melting ice. It is 13.5 hectares in area with an average depth of 11.9 metres. It is not a closed system, with creeks flowing into it from Lakes Liinjärv, Valgjärv and Kaussjärv. It is the deepest lake in Estonia (38 metres) and has many natural springs along its shores and in its depths. The colour of its water varies from orange to light green. 22 species of plants are found in the lake, to a depth of up to 8 metres. The fish most commonly found in the lake are the perch and roach. The lake is open to swimmers.

Toompea Castle
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Toompea Castle (also Latin: Castrum Danorum, Estonian: Toompea loss; (previously probably) Taani loss, literally "The Danish castle") is a castle on the limestone hill of Toompea in the central part of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, which for a time was also one of the names for the whole settlement of Tallinn during the times of Danish Estonia in the 13th and 14th centuries.

"Kumu" by Pekka Vapaavuori
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Kumu (Estonian: Kumu Kunstimuuseum) is an art museum in Tallinn, Estonia. The museum is the largest one in the Baltics and one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe. It is one of the five branches of the Art Museum of Estonia, housing its main offices.
Kumu presents both permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. The main collection covers Estonian art from the 18th century onwards, including works from the occupations period (1941–1991) and showing both Socialist Realism and Soviet Nonconformist Art. Temporary exhibitions include both foreign and Estonian modern and contemporary art.
Kumu abbreviates from Estonian "Kunstimuuseum" (art museum). The designer was a Finnish architect Pekka Vapaavuori, who won the competition in 1994. It was constructed between 2003 to 2006.
Kumu received European Museum of the Year Award 2008 by European Museum Forum.

Poseidon fountain in Kadriorg Palace
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This fountain is located at the Kadriorg Palace, an art museum in Estonia that used to belong to Catherine I of Russia.

Estonia Olympic Committee headquarters
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The Estonian Olympic Committee was founded in 1923. Their athletes competed for the Soviet Union in international competition after 1940. The committee was reestablished in 1991 after the country regained it's independence.
This building is also home to many of the country's individual international sports federations, including handball, judo, karate, ice hockey, fencing, and equestrian.

Executioner (Museum of Torture)
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Estonian Statue of Liberty
Cooperation agreement for the erection of statue of liberty of the War of Independence was concluded Tallinn, February 14th 2008 – the Mayor of Tallinn, Mr. Edgar Savisaar, and the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jaak Aaviksoo, today signed a cooperation agreement for the erection of statue of liberty of the War of Independence.
The objective of the agreement is to assure timely completion of the statue of liberty of the War of Independence simultaneously with general reconstruction of the Liberty Square.
According to Mr. Savisaar, today’s agreement serves as a good example of cooperation between the town and the state. "We do hope that the state will contribute to turning the Liberty Square into a representative town square in every possible way," Mr. Savisaar said. "We must cooperate to make the Liberty Square into a statuesque heart of both the town and the state.
"I am glad about both our former cooperation and the agreement signed today," said the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jaak Aaviksoo. "The support of the inhabitants of Tallinn and City Government to the erection of the statue of liberty of the War of Independence is important to allow the joint unveiling of a monument worthy of both the heroes of the War of Independence and those having stood for Estonia’s freedom during different times as a dignified closure of the year of anniversary of our country here, on the slopes of Harjumägi."
The reconstruction of Liberty Square is to begin in spring ; simultaneously, preparations will be made to erect the statue of liberty of the War of Independence on the slopes of Harjumägi. According to the plans, the statue of liberty of the War of Independence is to be completed by November 28th, commemorating the passing of 90 years since the beginning of the War of Independence.
Approximately 5,000 people both from Estonia and abroad have donated for the erection of the statue of liberty of the War of Independence. Approximately 619,434.32 kroons have been collected to the bank account of the Monument of Liberty Foundation.

Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport
Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (Estonian: Lennart Meri Tallinna lennujaam) (IATA: TLL, ICAO: EETN), formerly Ülemiste Airport is the largest airport in Estonia and home base of the national airline Estonian Air.

Tallinn Zoo
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The UAZ-452 is a 4x4 off-road Russian van to the earlier 4x2 UAZ-451. Because of the external similarities with a loaf of bread, the van became known as Буханка («Bukhanka», "loaf") in Russian. Production started in 1965 and continues today.

A Le Coq Arena
A. Le Coq Arena (Lilleküla Stadium) is a football stadium in Tallinn, Estonia. As well as football matches, it also hosts various concerts and events. According to the plan, the stadium is unfinished.
It is the home ground of the Estonia national football team and FC Flora football club. The stadium has a capacity of 9,692 but can be expanded to 10,300 with extra seats. Its capacity can also reach up to 25,000 for concerts. It is named after the Estonian beer company A. Le Coq. The address of the stadium is Asula 4c, 11312 Tallinn.
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Tehvandi ski jumping hill
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Toompea Castle
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Toompea Castle (also Latin: Castrum Danorum, Estonian: Toompea loss; (previously probably) Taani loss, literally "The Danish castle") is a castle on the limestone hill of Toompea in the central part of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, which for a time was also one of the names for the whole settlement of Tallinn during the times of Danish Estonia in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
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Orthodox cathedral in the Tallinn Old Town, Estonia. It was built to a design by Mikhail Preobrazhensky in a typical Russian Revival style between 1894 and 1900, during the period when the country was part of the Russian Empire. The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is Tallinn's largest and grandest orthodox cupola cathedral.

Ferry Koidula
Ferry Koidula at Laaksaare harbour. She was built by Reval Shipbuilding in 2009 and is specially designed for the shallow waters of Lake Peipus with the draught of only one meter fully loaded.

Antonov AN26- Cargo plane breaks chassis during take-off in Tallinn (2010)
An Antonov AN-26 cargo plane belonging to the Polish carrier Exin has suffered a takeoff accident at Tallinn Ülemiste airport (Estonia). None of the four crew members were injured. The flight failed to take off when the gear collapsed or retracted during takeoff. The airplane skidded to a stop on its belly. This is the second Exin crash at the airport in five months. Another Exin AN-26 made an emergency landing on frozen Lake Ülemiste in March.

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Art Museum of Estonia "Kumu"
Kumu (Estonian: Kumu Kunstimuuseum) is an art museum in Tallinn, Estonia. The museum is the largest one in the Baltics and one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe. It is one of the five branches of the Art Museum of Estonia, housing its main offices.
Kumu presents both permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. The main collection covers Estonian art from the 18th century onwards, including works from the occupations period (1940–1991) and showing both Socialist Realism and Nonconformist art. Temporary exhibitions include both foreign and Estonian modern and contemporary art.
Kumu is an abbreviation of the Estonian "Kunstimuuseum" (art museum). The designer was a Finnish architect, Pekka Vapaavuori, who won the competition in 1994. It was constructed from 2003 to 2006.
Kumu received European Museum of the Year Award 2008 by European Museum Forum.

Antonov An-26- Plane that Crashed on Ülemiste Lake (2010)
The AN-26 plane that belongs to a Polish company and carried DHL packages terminated its landing procedure after its landing gear did not function and tried to pick up height, but failed when its engine failed and fell to the ice.
The plane had a crew of 6 persons on board made an emergency landing. According to authorities, no-one was injured in the incident.
Snow clearing equipment is currently cleaning a path to the plane that is relatively close to the lake shore. Because of arriving rescue vehicles, there is a major traffic congestion near the airport.
The authorities have started investigation of the incident.
Lake Ülemiste is the main drinking water reservoir for Tallinn.

Pyuhtitsky monastery
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Puuhtitsa Convent (Estonian: Kuremaae Jumalaema Uinumise nunnaklooster, Russian: Пюхтицкий Успенский женский монастырь) is a convent located in Eastern Estonia (Ida-Viru County) between Lake Peipus and the Gulf of Finland. The convent is located on a site known as Puuhitsetud ("blessed" in Estonian) since ancient times. According to a 16th century legend, near the local village, Kuremaae, a shepherd witnessed a divine revelation near a spring of water to this day venerated as holy. Later, locals found an ancient icon of Dormition of the Mother of God under a huge oak tree. The icon still belongs to the convent. A small Orthodox Christian church was built in Puhtitsa in the 16th century. In 1888, the Russian Orthodox Church sent a nun from Kostroma Ipatiev Monastery to establish a convent in Puuhtitsa. The convent was founded in 1891. The main Cathedral of the convent - Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God - was built to a design by Mikhail Preobrazhensky in a Russian Revival style and was fully completed in 1910. There are also Refectory Church of St Simeon the Receiver of God and St Anna the Prophetess (1895), Church of St Sergius of Radonezh (1895), Graveyard Church of St Nicholas and St Arsenios the Great (1885), Baptism Church of St John the Baptist and Saint Priest and Martyr Isidore of Tartu (Yuryev) (1990), Church of St Alexy and the Great Martyr St Barbara (1986). The convent was first Orthodox monastery built in Estonia to the delight of mostly Orthodox local Estonian and Russian peasants of Jyohvi county.

Nabala Mansion
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Segways
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Estonia disaster memorial
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MS Estonia, previously Viking Sally (1980–1990), Silja Star (−1991), and Wasa King (−1993), was a cruise ferry built in 1979/80 at the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. The ship sank in 1994 in the Baltic Sea in one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century. It is the deadliest shipwreck disaster to have occurred in the Baltic Sea in peacetime, costing 852 lives.

Tallinn skyline

German War Cemetery Reval-Marienberg
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
2,156 German soldiers of WW 2 are buried here.

Aston Martin DB9

Suur Munamägi (highest point of the Baltics)
Suur Munamägi (in translation "Big Egg Mountain") is the highest peak in Estonia (and the Baltic states), reaching 318 metres (1,043 ft) above sea level. It is located near the village of Haanja, in Võru County in the south-eastern corner of Estonia, close to the borders of both Latvia and Russia. The landscape around the peak - the Haanja Upland - is gently hilly.

Suur Munamägi
Suur Munamägi (in translation "Big Egg Mountain") is the highest peak in Estonia (and the Baltic states), reaching 318 metres (1,043 ft) above sea level. It is located near the village of Haanja, in Võru County in the south-eastern corner of Estonia, close to the borders of both Latvia and Russia. The landscape around the peak - the Haanja Upland - is gently hilly.

Fahle House

Hello!
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.

Õllesummer

Bridesmaids, Super 8, X-Men

Ice road between Vormsi and mainland Estonia
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Rohuküla - Sviby (between the mainland and Vormsi) - 10.2 km

Google Car hits a cat

Tamme Staadion
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Stripclub Ärtu

BMW representative office

Narva Castle
The castle was founded during the Danish rule of northern Estonia during the second half of the 13th century, the earliest written record of the castle is from 1277. The castle and surrounding town of Narva became a possession of the Livonian Order in 1346, after the Danish king sold its lands in Northern Estonia.
The castle was in Russian Hands from 1558 to 1581 when the area was conquered by the Swedes. Near the end of the Swedish rule the defence structures of Narva were greatly improved - beginning in 1680s, an outstanding system of bastions, planned by the renowned Swedish military engineer Erik Dahlbergh, was built around the town.
The city and castle were conquered by Russia in 1704 during the Great Northern War. After the war the bastions were renovated and Narva remained in the list of Russian fortifications until 1863, though there was no real military need for it.

House For Sale (1 000 000 €)

Flags
koho56 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: koho56.

Veski Tavern
Of three formerly functional windmills used within the city borders this windmill is the only one preserved. Initially this construction was known as the Trei windmill, after the name of its builder and owner. The windmill was built in 1899 and it was used until the beginning of World War II. The restoration of the windmill began in 1972 and it was reopened as a coffeehouse in 1974. The aim of the restoration was to preserve the initial constructions of the Dutch type stone windmill. Good to know: the windmill was declared an architectural monument of national importance. The windmill is 17 m high and if we include its wings then its highest point reaches 24 meters of height.

Tallinn Town Hall
The Tallinn Town Hall (Estonian: Tallinna raekoda) is a building in the Tallinn Old Town, in Tallinn, Estonia, beside Town Hall Square. It is the only intact gothic style town hall in the Northern Europe.[1][2

Ilumetsa Crater
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Ilumetsa is a meteorite crater in Estonia.
It is 80 meters in diameter and the age is estimated to be more than 6600 years. The crater is exposed at the surface

Tartu Observatory - start the Struve Geodetic Arc
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The Tartu Observatory is the largest astronomical observatory in Estonia. Tartu Old Observatory is known internationally for its connection to Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and the Struve Geodetic Arc, of which it is the first point.
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km. The chain was established and used by the German-born Russian scientist Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve in the years 1816 to 1855 to establish the exact size and shape of the earth. At that time, the chain passed merely through two countries: Sweden-Norway and the Russian Empire. The Arc's first point is located in Tartu Observatory, where Struve conducted much of his research. In 2005, the chain was inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Measurement of the triangulation chain took place between 1816 and 1855. It comprises 258 main triangles and 265 geodetic vertices. The northernmost point is located near Hammerfest in Norway and the southernmost point near the Black Sea in Ukraine.

St. Olaf's church
Location Tallinn, Estonia
Status Complete
Constructed 1438-1519
Height
Antenna/Spire Original: 159 m (522 ft.)
Current: 123 m (404 ft.)

Pregnant

Sillamäe Kalevi Staadion

Raadi cemetery
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
The oldest and largest burial ground in Tartu, Estonia, dating back to 1773. Many prominent historical figures are buried there. It is also the largest Baltic German cemetery in Estonia after the destruction of Kopli cemetery in Tallinn. Until 1841, it was the only cemetery in the town.
The cemetery currently includes several smaller graveyard sections, the oldest of which date back to 1773.
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Cruise ship in Tallinn (Estonia)

Viru Gates
Viru Gates were built in the 14thC, and the towers still standing today are only a part of the original structure. Viru Gates are located in the eastern section of the town wall. The main tower of the gates was built in its initial form in 1345-1355. Today, Viru Gates are one of the entrances into the Old Town leading to numerous shops and restaurants in Viru Street.

Pirita Velodrome
Outdoor, Concrete, 333m

Mustamäe ski jumping arena
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.

Velotaxi

Couple kissing

Rõuge Viewing Tower

Mom Takes Pictures Of her Daughter

Eesti Spordimuuseum (Estonian Sports Museum)