Kurenurme
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Kurenurme is a village in Sõmerpalu Parish
, Võru County
, in southeastern Estonia
. As of 2000 it had a population of 73.
Kurenurme was founded as a lumberjack
village in the beginning of the 19th century.
Kurenurme kool was founded in 1931, it was colosed in 2001.
Kurenurme has a station on currently inactive Valga–Pechory
railway.
Sõmerpalu Parish
Sõmerpalu Parish is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. It has a population of 1,874 and an area of 181.93 km².-Settlements:Small boroughSõmerpaluVillages...
, Võru County
Võru County
Võrumaa or Võru maakond officially, is a county in Southern Estonia. It is bordered to the north by the Põlva County and the Lake Pihkva; to the west by Valga County; to the south by Latvia; and to the east by the Russian Federation....
, in southeastern Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
. As of 2000 it had a population of 73.
Kurenurme was founded as a lumberjack
Lumberjack
A lumberjack is a worker in the logging industry who performs the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to a bygone era when hand tools were used in harvesting trees principally from virgin forest...
village in the beginning of the 19th century.
Kurenurme kool was founded in 1931, it was colosed in 2001.
Kurenurme has a station on currently inactive Valga–Pechory
Pechory
Pechory : Petseri; ) is a town and the administrative center of Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia. Population: The population includes a few hundred ethnic Estonians.The town is famous for the Russian Orthodox Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery....
railway.