In the region · Ida-Viru County
Resort town at a river mouth
Here the Narva River reaches the Gulf of Finland and loses its function as a border. From the late 19th century the town was a summer resort for the Saint Petersburg intelligentsia, later a Soviet sanatorium town. The beach is long and sandy, with pine forest starting immediately behind it.
"The river that was a border upstream is simply water going to sea here. People swim in it."
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Roughly eight kilometres of fine sand beach at the edge of a pine forest, running west from the river mouth.
Why it belongs to the storyWater as leisure, not as a border. It is the same river that divides states in the city — here it simply ends.
Pine forest on dunes between the beaches and the town, with trails running through the whole resort area.
Why it belongs to the storyThe original reason for the resort town: doctors were sending patients here for the pine air already in the 19th century.
