It's a nice map, also with the former border.

The GBBE visited the area last summer.

I have photos from the area, but the road is very undramatic through forest,
and you would not know you were in Russia, if you didn't see the Russian
border markers. There are no EE markers, and since RU always (where I know
of it) have the system of three markers, one RU, one for their neighbour and
a shared, it's also unclear of the excact position of the border.

No stopping is allowed in the corridor road.

Jesper

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Hirose" <silentcity@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 2:30 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Saatse EERU

> Searching the online Yahoo message database is extremely cumbersome so I
> haven't done a complete search to see if this subject has come up.
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> I was chatting with an English university administrator once. He took a
job
> with the University of Tartu so he was living in Estonia for a while. He
> told me about a few towns in Estonia which can only be reached via a road
> that passes through Russia. He said that this makes this transit through
> Russia the only completely visa free part of Russia anyone can visit. I
> later spoke with some Estonians and they weren't aware of this anomaly
>
> I have looked up the details again for this posting and found one town
name:
> Saatse. You can see it on a detailed map of Estonia here:
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> http://wwteam.delfi.lv/rivers_files/rivers/estonia_map.gif
>
> As you can see, this oddity was created when Estonia was forced to cede
> Pesteri (Pechory) to Russia soon after WW II.
>
> Henry Hirose
> silentcity@...
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