Räpina ( vro, Räpinä, german: Rappin) is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Põlva County
Põlva County ( et, Põlva maakond or ''Põlvamaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in south-eastern part of the country and borders Tartu, Valga and Võru counties. 28,507 people live in Põlva County – constituting 2.3% ...
, Estonia. Räpina was administrative centre of Räpina
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
from 1950 until 1961, currently it is the administrative centre of
Räpina Parish. The oldest commercial enterprise in Räpina is a paper factory that opened in 1734.
Gallery
File:Rapina-paberivabrik.jpg, Räpina paper mill on Lake Räpina
File:Räpina mõisa peahoone1.jpg, Räpina manor
File:RäpinaKirik20140503.jpg, Räpina church on Lake Räpina
File:Räpina järv (Võhandu jõgi).JPG, Lake Räpina
File:Räpina Harbour.jpg, Räpina harbour on Lake Peipus
Lake Peipus ( et, Peipsi-Pihkva järv; russian: Чудско-Псковское озеро, Псковско-Чудское озеро, Chudsko-Pskovskoye ozero, Pskovsko-Chudskoye ozero); is the largest trans-boundary lake in Europe, lying on ...
File:Räpina Aianduskool 01-vaade-koolihoonele.jpg, Räpina School of Agriculture
File:Räpinä Vabahussammas 20090628 edekülg.jpg, Monument to the Estonian War of Independence
The Estonian War of Independence ( et, Vabadussõda, literally "Freedom War"), also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Bolshevik westw ...
in Räpina
Notable people
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Paul Haavaoks (1924–1983), poet and writer
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Aapo Ilves (born 1970), poet, writer, artist and musician
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Leonhard Lapin
Leonhard Lapin (29 December 1947 – 28 February 2022), also known under the pseudonym Albert Trapeež, was an Estonian architect, artist, architecture historian, and poet.
Biography
Emeritus Professor at Estonian Academy of Arts, Lapin was a ...
(born 1947), architect, artist, historian, poet and academic
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Enno Ootsing (born 1940), artist and academic
References
External links
Cities and towns in Estonia
Former municipalities of Estonia
Kreis Werro
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