Mõigu

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Mõigu is a subdistrict of the city of Tallinn in Estonia, a part of the Kesklinn district. It is located on the northeastern side of Lake Ülemiste. Mõigu's former German name until 1918 was Moik, also spelled Moick.


[edit] Cemetery in Mõigu

Mõigu was the former location of a large Baltic German burial ground in Tallinn, known as Mõigu cemetery (in Estonian: Mõigu kalmistu; in German: der Friedhof von Moik) which was founded around 1774. The cemetery was flattended over a 170 years later around 1950-1951, during the second occupation of the baltic states, by Russian Soviet Authorities governing the Estonian SSR at the time.

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