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Kohtla-Järve is a city and municipality in northeastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946. The city is highly industrial, and is both a processor of oil shales and is a large producer of various petrochemical products.
Kohtla-Järve is the industrial center of Estonia, the fifth largest city. Kohtla-Jarve is unique in that it is spread over the region: its districts are in different parts of East Estonia. As of 2021, 74% of the city's population were ethnic Russians Estonians, and 16% were ethnic Estonians.
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- The history of Kohtla-Järve is closely tied to the history of extraction of oil shale, the main mineral of Estonia.
- After Soviet Union collapsed and Estonia regained independence in 1991 the number of city districts decreased, as Jõhvi, Kiviõli and Püssi became separate towns.
- Kohtla-Järve is twinned with: Outokumpu, Finland; Norderstedt, Germany; Kėdainiai, Lithuania; Saransk, Russia; Veliky Novgorod, Russia; Slantsevsky District, Russia; Kingiseppsky District, Russia; Korostyshiv, Ukraine; Wyszków, Poland; Salihorsk, Belarus & Staffanstorp, Sweden.
- Kohtla-Järve was founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946.
Kohtla-Järve, city, Estonia, near the Gulf of Finland. Founded in 1900 and incorporated in 1946, it lies on the Tallinn–St. Petersburg road and railway. Its principal industry is the processing of oil shales based on local deposits; shale-gas pipelines were constructed to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1948 and to Tallinn in 1953.
Kohtla-Järve is an agglomeration of industrial settlements in Eastern Estonia. Separate parts of this unusual and rather conditional city are separated from each other by tens of kilometers. Overview
