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by Ivan Sache , 26 January 2000
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From <http://www.estpak.ee/~kjlv/uk.htm> (defunct):
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