Kusa is a village in Arona Parish,

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, Vidzeme, eastern

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. As of 2008, Kusa had a population of 686. Kusa is situated by the P30 road at the 8th kilometer heading from Madona towards Cēsis.

History

Kusa mostly developed from a former

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with few houses into a village under Soviet rule in the 1970s under the guidance of the PMK-19 land improvement brigade ( Latvian: ''Pārvietojamā mehanizatoru kolonna'', Mobile Mechanizator Column), which was draining marshes and working on other

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tasks for the local Soviet collective farm ( kolkhoz). Block houses, a district heating system and paved roads were built. Kusa has a postal office (postal code LV-4847), primary school (Kusas pamatskola) with approximately 250 students, small shops, a hotel, saw mill, car-repair workshops and a gas station.

External links

Official website of Kusa Primary School
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