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  • 2. Narva Town Hall Narva
    Narva is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, at the Russian border, on the Narva River which drains Lake Peipus.
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  • 3. Narva Bastions Narva
    The Battle of Narva was a military campaign between the German Army Detachment Narwa and the Soviet Leningrad Front fought for possession of the strategically important Narva Isthmus on 2 February – 10 August 1944 during World War II. The campaign took place in the northern section of the Eastern Front and consisted of two major phases: the Battle for Narva Bridgehead and the Battle of Tannenberg Line . The Soviet Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive and Narva Offensives were part of the Red Army Winter Spring Campaign of 1944. Following Joseph Stalin's Broad Front strategy, these battles coincided with the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive and the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive . A number of foreign volunteers and local Estonian conscripts participated in the battle as part of the German forces. By giv...
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  • 4. Kreenholm Area and Kreenholm Textile Factory Narva
    Kreenholm is an island in the Narva River, in the city of Narva belonging to Estonia. The island is 13 hectares in area, 750 metres long and 250 metres wide. The island divides the Narva Waterfall into eastern and western branches. The Estonia–Russia border runs through the eastern branch. In the 14th century a sawmill was already operating on Kreenholm. In 1538 the Livonian Order built a watermill on the left bank of the river just opposite the island, and in 1823 a cloth factory operated by a local merchant, Paul Momma, was opened on the right bank of the Narva River. Baron Stieglitz's flax mill was located on the right bank.In 1856, Ludwig Knoop acquired the whole island and founded a textile factory there which was known as the Krenholm Manufacturing Company.
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