Võmmorski is a village in
Setomaa Parish
Setomaa Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. It has a population of 2,849 (as of 1 January 2022) and an area of 463.1 km2. Demographics
Population in the municipality:
* 2000: 4,206
* 2011: 2,990
* 2022: 2,849
...
,
Võru County
Võru County ( or ''Võrumaa''; ) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga and Põlva counties, Latvia's Alūksne and Ape municipalities, and Russia's Pskov Oblast (making it the only Estonian county to border two countries) ...
, in southeastern
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 ...
, on the border with Russia.
[ (retrieved 27 July 2021)] The
Piusa River borders the village in the north, Russian border in the east. As of 2000, Võmmorski had a population of 43.
, a small
Seto
Seto may refer to:
Places
*Seto, Aichi, production place of Japanese pottery and venue of Expo 2005
* Seto, Ehime, facing the Seto Inland Sea
* Seto, Okayama, adjacent to Okayama, in Okayama Prefecture
*Seto Inland Sea of Japan
*Setomaa (''Seto ...
chapel is located in the village.
The Piusa cordon of
Estonian Border Guard is located in Võmmorski.
On 4 May 2011 a shooting incident between police officers and local landowner took place just behind the
river
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
on the territory of
Piusa village. As a result the landowner and a police officer died and two were wounded.
References
Villages in Võru County
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