Tahkuranna is a village in

Häädemeeste Parish Häädemeeste (german: Gudmannsbach) is a municipality located in Pärnu County of Estonia. Nigula Nature Reserve is partly located in Häädemeeste Parish. Tahkuranna village of the municipality is known as the birthplace of Konstantin Päts ...

Pärnu County Pärnu County ( et, Pärnu maakond or ''Pärnumaa''; german: Kreis Pernau) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in the south-western part of the country, on the coast of Gulf of Riga, and borders Lääne and Rapla counties to the nor ...

in southwestern

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 the birthplace of

Konstantin Päts Konstantin Päts (; – 18 January 1956) was an Estonian statesman and the country's president in 1938–1940. Päts was one of the most influential politicians of the independent democratic Republic of Estonia, and during the two decades pri ...

, the first president of Estonia and his brother, artist and politician

Voldemar Päts Voldemar Päts (19 July 1878, Tahkuranna – 27 June 1958, Toronto) was an Estonian artist, art teacher and politician. He was the younger brother of statesman and 1st President of Estonia Konstantin Päts. He was a member of Estonian Constituent ...

Tiit Helmja Tiit Helmja (born 19 July 1945) is an Estonian rower who competed for Soviet Union at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with the men's coxed pair where they qualified for the small final but did not start. At the 1971 European Rowing Champi ...

, an Olympic rower, was also born in Tahkuranna.

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Villages in Pärnu County Kreis Pernau {{Pärnu-geo-stub