Subject: Saatse EERU<br/>
Date: Feb 21, 2004 @ 13:30<br/>
Author: Henry Hirose (&quot;Henry Hirose&quot; &lt;silentcity@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1672691233">Searching the online Yahoo message database is extremely cumbersome so I<br/>
haven&#39;t done a complete search to see if this subject has come up.<br/>
<br/>
I was chatting with an English university administrator once.  He took a job<br/>
with the University of Tartu so he was living in Estonia for a while.  He<br/>
told me about a few towns in Estonia which can only be reached via a road<br/>
that passes through Russia.  He said that this makes this transit through<br/>
Russia the only completely visa free part of Russia anyone can visit.  I<br/>
later spoke with some Estonians and they weren&#39;t aware of this anomaly<br/>
<br/>
I have looked up the details again for this posting and found one town name:<br/>
Saatse.  You can see it on a detailed map of Estonia here:<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wwteam.delfi.lv/rivers_files/rivers/estonia_map.gif">http://wwteam.delfi.lv/rivers_files/rivers/estonia_map.gif</a><br/>
<br/>
As you can see, this oddity was created when Estonia was forced to cede<br/>
Pesteri (Pechory) to Russia soon after WW II.<br/>
<br/>
Henry Hirose<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:silentcity@...">silentcity@...</a></div>