Kunda, Estonia
Kunda is a town in the Viru-Nigula Parish of Estonia, located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. There is a pulp mill, a cement factory and a port.History
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.
Kunda was granted official borough rights on May 1, 1938.
The Rutja Airfield facility is located west of Kunda and was used by the Soviets during their occupation of Estonia; it has since been abandoned.International relations
Kunda is twinned with:
- Argo Aadli, theatre and film actor
- Armin Öpik, paleontologist
- Ernst Öpik, astronomer and astrophysicist
- Jüri Parijõgi, writer and scholar
- Knudåge Riisager, composer, son of expatriate Danish parents, spent his first 3 years in Kunda.
