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by Ivan Sache , 26 January 2000
Adopted: 6 March 1995
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From http://rex.rk.ee/symb/
. Located by Dov Gutterman
From: http://www.estpak.ee/~kjlv/uk.htm
The town Kohtla-Jarve received its name from the name of two
villages - Kohtla and Jarve. Kohtla-Jarve is one of youngest
modern towns of Estonia. It received its designations as a town
50 years old, after transformation and merging of town Johvi with
workers’ settlements, in which mainly chemists and miners lived.
Being the large industrial centre of republic, Kohtla-Jarve
during all these years has been made for domestic needs and on
export chemical products, received at oil shale processing,
building materials, products of furniture industry, ready-made
sewing articles. The area of town, after transformation of Johvi
and Kivioli into separated townships in 1991, makes 46 square
kilometres, the population amounts to 54 thousand people. The
town has tight economic connections with many regions in Estonia
and abroad. This is due to a profitable location of town and its
part in Ida-Viru county region, along, railroad and highway,
connecting Tallinn with Narva and St.-Petersburg, and through
their seaports with many other consumers and suppliers of
production and raw material outside Estonia. The town consists of
various parts, which were built mainly after World War II near of
working mines (some of them are working still), enterprises for
oil shale processing, power stations, peat industry. These parts
are Vanalinn (Old town), Käva, Järve, Ahtme, Kukruse, Iidla,
Oru, Sompa, Sirgala, Viivikonna. They are situated apart from
each other at the distance from 2 up to 40 kilometres.
Dov Gutterman , 25 June 1999