Theme Week Estonia – Kohtla-Järve

26 April 2022 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

First oil shale lot © Aleksandr Matrunich/cc-by-sa-4.0

First oil shale lot © Aleksandr Matrunich/cc-by-sa-4.0

Kohtla-Järve is a city and municipality in north-eastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946. The city is highly industrial, and is both a processor of oil shales and is a large producer of various petroleum products. The city is also very diverse ethnically: it contains people of over 40 ethnic groups Only 21% of the population are ethnic Estonians; most of the rest are Russians. Kohtla-Järve is the fifth-largest city in Estonia.   read more…

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