Piusa is a village in

Võru Parish Võru Parish ( et, Võru vald; vro, Võro vald) is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. It has a population of 4,770 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 202.23 km². See also *Tsiatsungõlmaa training area Tsiatsungõlmaa ...

Võru County Võru County ( et, Võru maakond or ''Võrumaa''; vro, Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga County and Põlva County and is the only Estonian county bordering two countries - Latvia ( Alūksne Municipality a ...

, in southeastern

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

. It is located on the left bank of the river Piusa, near the border of

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

. Piusa is famous for its sand caves along the river. Sand quarries for

glass production Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers. It has been done in a variety of ways during the history of glass. Glass containe ...

are active in Piusa since 1922. Piusa has a station on the railway line that formerly linked Valga and

Pechory Pechory (russian: Печо́ры; Estonian and Seto: ') is a town and the administrative centre of Pechorsky District in the Pskov Oblast, Russia. Its population in the 2010 Census was 11,195, having fallen from 13,056 recorded i ...

. Currently there are up to two services a day from Piusa to

Koidula railway station Koidula railway station ( et, Koidula raudteejaam) is a railway station in Koidula, Estonia, on the Russian border. It merges the Tartu– Pechory and Valga– Pechory railways just before the Russian border (Pechory is located straight after t ...

on the border with

, with one service in each direction having a connection to / from

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast o ...

. On 4 May 2011 a shooting incident between police officers and local landowner took place on the territory of Piusa village, close to

Võmmorski Võmmorski is a village in Setomaa Parish, Võru County, in southeastern Estonia, on the border with Russia. (retrieved 27 July 2021) The Piusa River borders the village in the north, Russian border in the east. As of 2000, Võmmorski had a popu ...

. As a result, the landowner and a police officer died and two were wounded.

References

Võru Parish Villages in Võru County {{Võru-geo-stub