Kunda
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Kunda is a town in Estonia
, located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland
. There is a pulp mill (AS Estonian Cell), a cement factory and a port. Its population is ca. 4000.
Evidence of some of the oldest prehistoric communities in Estonia, hunting and fishing communities that existed around 6500 BC
, were found near Kunda.
This settlement gave the name to the Kunda culture
.
The Rutja Airfield facility 13 km west of Kunda has served Soviet and Estonian defense interests.
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
, located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland
Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland and Estonia all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn...
. There is a pulp mill (AS Estonian Cell), a cement factory and a port. Its population is ca. 4000.
Evidence of some of the oldest prehistoric communities in Estonia, hunting and fishing communities that existed around 6500 BC
7th millennium BC
During the 7th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from Anatolia to the Balkans.World population was essentially stable at around 5 million people, living mostly scattered across the globe in small hunting-gathering tribes...
, were found near Kunda.
This settlement gave the name to the Kunda culture
Kunda culture
Kunda Culture, with its roots in Swiderian culture is a mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities of the Baltic forest zone extending eastwards through Latvia into northern Russia dating to the period 8000–5000 BC by calibrated radiocarbon dating...
.
The Rutja Airfield facility 13 km west of Kunda has served Soviet and Estonian defense interests.
Notable residents
- Argo AadliArgo AadliArgo Aadli is an Estonian theatre and film actor. He graduated from the Higher Theatre School of the Estonian Academy of Music in 2002. He has worked as an actor in Tallinn City Theatre where he has performed at least ten productions to date, notably the character of Zahhar in the Anton Chekhov...
(born 1980), theatre and film actor - Ernst ÖpikErnst ÖpikErnst Julius Öpik was a noted Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland.-Education:...
(1893–1985), astronomer and astrophysicist - Jüri Parijõgi (1892–1941), writer and scholar
- Knudåge RiisagerKnudåge RiisagerKnudåge Riisager was a Danish composer.Knudåge Riisager was born in Estonia of Danish parents. His father Emil Riisager was an engineer, and the family returned to Denmark in 1900 when Knudåge was three years old.- Notable works :*Ballet music**Benzin op. 17 **Cocktails-Party op...
(1897-1974), composer, son of expatriate Danish parents (his father running the cement factory), spent his first 3 years in Kunda.