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Endel Rikand
Endel Rikand (9 April 1906 – 17 August 1944) was an Estonian sport shooter. He was born in Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba .... In 1926 he graduated from State Industry School (). He began his shooting career in 1932. He won 4 medals at ISSF World Shooting Championships. He was two-times Estonian champion in different shooting disciplines. 1934–1939 he was a member of Estonian national sport shooting team. 1943–1944 he participated on Continuation War in Finland. He died in 1944 in a battle near Narva. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rikand, Endel 1906 births 1944 deaths Estonian male sport shooters Soviet military personnel killed in World War II Sportspeople from Riga 20th-century Estonian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
