Letipea is a village in
Viru-Nigula Parish,
Lääne-Viru County
Lääne-Viru County ( et, Lääne-Viru maakond or ''Lääne-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland. In Estonian, ''lääne'' means western and ''ida'' means east or easter ...
, northern
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, a ...
. It is located on the
Letipea cape (Letipea neem) on the coast of the
Gulf of Finland about 6 km northeast of the town of
Kunda. Letipea has a population of 17 (as of 1 January 2013).
On 8 August 1976,
a tragic conflict between resting workers and drunk
Soviet border guards
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
took place in Letipea, resulting in the death of 8 people, with 18 more being injured.
(area 608,8 ha) was founded on 30 January 1992. It was proposed by Marek Vahula and others with 3 days, as a bird reserve instead of building plan of the port of
Kunda. Letipea is since 2009 lively as possible location of the Estonian nuclear power station.
Letipea Ehalkivi
Ehalkivi (Sunset Glow Boulder) is Estonia's biggest pegmatite granite boulder, at the tip of the Letipea peninsula. It is the largest
erratic boulder in the glaciation region of North Europe. It measures 7m in height, a circumference of 48.2m, a volume of 930m
3, and a mass of approximately 2,500 tonnes.
Gallery
File:Letipea coast - panoramio.jpg, Coast at Letipea
File:Ehalkivi1.jpg, Ehalkivi
File:Ehalkivi 2.jpg, Ehalkivi
File:Ehalkivi2.jpg, Ehalkivi
File:Letipea ohvrite mälestuskivi.jpg, Memorial stone of Letipea massacre
The Letipea massacre was a mass shooting of civilians by the Soviet armed forces that took place on 8 August 1976 in Letipea, Estonia, at the time part of the USSR. It resulted from a conflict between gas company workers who were having a picni ...
.
See also
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Letipea Lighthouse
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Letipea Landscape Conservation Area
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Letipea massacre
The Letipea massacre was a mass shooting of civilians by the Soviet armed forces that took place on 8 August 1976 in Letipea, Estonia, at the time part of the USSR. It resulted from a conflict between gas company workers who were having a picni ...
References
Villages in Lääne-Viru County
Kreis Wierland
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