Õru is a
small borough (') in
Valga Parish
Valga Parish ( et, Valga vald) is a rural municipality in Valga County. It includes the town of Valga.https://www.valga.ee/ (accessed 4 March 2020)
Settlements Town
* Valga
Boroughs
* Tsirguliina
* Õru
* Laatre
Villages
* Hargla
* ...
,
Valga County
Valga County ( et, Valga maakond or ''Valgamaa'') is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area of Valga District. The present-day county was created on 1 January 1990. The capital and lar ...
, southern
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 ...
. Between 1992 and 2017, prior to the administrative reform of Estonian local governments, it was the administrative centre of
Õru Parish. As of
2011 Census, the settlement's population was 178.
The
Tartu–
Valga road (part of
E264) passes through Õru.
Õru was established in the 1950s–60s as the centre of the Vaiga
Sovkhoz
A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, abbreviated from ''советское хозяйство'', "sovetskoye khozyaystvo (sovkhoz)"; ) was a form of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union.
It is usually contrasted wit ...
.
Besides local government there are kindergarten-elementary school, library and post office located in Õru.
References
Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia
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