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Õru is a
small borough The following is a list of Populated places in Estonia, boroughs () and Populated places in Estonia, small boroughs () in Estonia. Boroughs *Aegviidu *Järva-Jaani *Järvakandi *Kiili *Kohila *Kohtla-Nõmme *Lavassaare *Märjamaa *Paikuse *Pärn ...
(') in
Valga Parish Valga Parish () 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 * Iigaste * ...
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Valga County Valga County ( 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 largest town of Valga Co ...
, southern
Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
. Between 1992 and 2017, prior to the administrative reform of Estonian local governments, it was the administrative centre of
Õru Parish Õru Parish was a rural municipality (Estonia), rural municipality in Valga County, Estonia. Settlements ;Small borough Õru ;Villages Killinge - Kiviküla, Valga County, Kiviküla - Lota, Estonia, Lota - Mustumetsa - Õlatu - Õruste - Priipal ...
. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 178. The Tartu–Valga road (part of E264) passes through Õru. Õru was established in the 1950s–1960s as the centre of the Vaiga
sovkhoz A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated from , ''sovetskoye khozyaystvo''; ) was a form of state-owned farm or agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union. It is usually contrasted w ...
. Besides local government there is a kindergarten-elementary school, library and post office located in Õru.


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