Vaabina is a village in Urvaste Parish

Urvaste Parish

Urvaste Parish is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. It has a population of 1,413 and an area of 139.62 km².There are two main tourist attractions: Tamme-Lauri oak and Pokuland.-Settlements:Villages...

, 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...

, located about 6 km northeast of the town of Antsla

Antsla

Antsla is a town in Võru County, southern Estonia, it's the administrative centre of Antsla Parish. Town has a population of 1,650 ....

. It has a population of 232 (as of 26 May 2004).

Vaabina was first mentioned in 1405 as . Its present name Vaabina is derived from the first name of Fabian von Tiesenhausen, the owner of the Ülzen manor in the 16th century. Nowadays there's no remains left of the previous knight manor.

Vaabina 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.