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The Republic of Estonia

Viktoria Shsherbakova 11 klass 26.09.2012

Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. The territory of Estonia covers 45,227 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. The Estonians are a Finnie people, and the official language, Estonian, is closely related to Finnish.

Population in Estonia - 1 294 236 thousand people Estonia divided into 15 counties. The capital and

largest city is Tallinn.

Symbols of Estonia

The state symbols are the flag, the coat of arms, cornflower and a swallow.

Narva

Narva- third largest and on population the city in Estonia, the largest Russian-speaking city of Estonia, the largest city of the district Ida-Virumaa. The population — 61 076 people.

Symbolics of Narva

Symbols of Narva are the flag and the coat of arms.

On either side of the river Narova powerful fortresses are located: Narva Castle with bastions and the Ivangorod fortress. It is a unique architectural complex: the classical lock with a belt of bastions of the XVII century and Russian fortress of the XV-XVII centuries.

Sights

Herman's lock — a medieval castle in the city of Narva, based by Danes in the XIII century. The Narva Castle is one of the main attractions of the city. The area of the castle is 3.2 hectares, and the highest point is the Tall Hermann Tower (51 meters).

In Herman's tower and in the oldest part of the lock the Narva museum settles down.

Narva town hall - a history and architecture monument in Narva.

The Narva Resurrection Cathedral - the temple of Estonian orthodox church.

Swedish lion Monument in «A dark garden»

Monuments

Art gallery Fountain on a bastion of Paks

Fishing in Estonia

At formation of the coastal people of Estonia the Swedish and Russian immigrants in the 13th century brought with themselves new ways and fishery receptions. The sprat, later a sprat, the Eel and a cod was the main food fish in the sea.

The sprat, the salted sprat became the main fish food of countrymen to the middle of the second millennium. Also if dried and dried fish.

In Estonian traditional fish cookery it was accepted to cook a fish soup or the furnace of the bream in a smoky log hut.

In Estonia about 1200 lakes, more than 7000 rivers and streams and very extended coastline of the Baltic Sea, and also Chudsky lake.

In reservoirs of Estonia it is possible to catch such breeds of fishes as a tench, the bream, a carp, small fry, a perch, a salmon and others. The most popular it is a pike and a trout.

In the 19th century economy and equipment development started to influence our regions more and more. People learned to use energy of the river in the industrial purposes and on Narov's both river banks ralichny industrial complexes began to be erected. Near the island Krengolm worked: Chuykin's water-mill, cloth factory of merchant Momma, factory of baron Shtiglits.

On the Narva reservoir fishery is highly developed and here 27 species of fish, from which 7 types – trade live. The bream, a pike, a burbot, жерех, язь, a perch, small fry, and also a ruff, the rudd, a guster, a tench and a crucian – "ordinary" representatives of fauna of the artificial lake.

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