Kopli

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Kopli
Subdistrict of Tallinn
Wooden workers' barracks from the 1910s.
Kopli within Põhja-Tallinn.
Country	Estonia
County	Harju County
City	Tallinn
District	Põhja-Tallinn
Population (01.06.2011^[1])
• Total	7,138

Kopli is a subdistrict of the district of Põhja-Tallinn (Northern Tallinn) in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It's located on the Kopli Peninsula and is bordered by parts of the Tallinn Bay, the Kopli Bay to the southwest and the Paljassaare Bay to the north. Kopli has a population of 7,138 (As of 1 June 2011 (2011-06-01)).^[1] Kopli's former German name until 1918 was Ziegelskoppel.

Kopli cemetery

Kopli was the former location of the largest Lutheran Baltic German cemetery in Tallinn, known as Kopli cemetery (in Estonian: Kopli kalmistu; in German: Friedhof von Ziegelskoppel) which was founded around 1774. The cemetery was flattened and destroyed over a 170 years later around 1950–1951, during the second occupation of the Baltic states, by the Soviet authorities who used the area of Kopli as a base for the Soviet Armed Forces. The former cemetery is now a public park.

Landmarks and institutions

Estonian Maritime Academy (Kopli 101)
Bekker Port (Kopliranna 49)
Baltic Ship Repair Yard (Kopli 103)

Gallery

Estonian Maritime Academy (formerly the main building of Tallinn University of Technology, 1932–1964).
A tram depot in the end of Kopli.
Bekker Port in Kopli seen from the Stroomi Beach in Pelguranna.

Old wooden houses
Newer 5-storey apartment building (khrushchyovka)
Streetview in winter

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Statistical Yearbook of Tallinn 2011". Tallinn City Government. p. 153. Retrieved 24 February 2012.

External links

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Image of a historical map from the year 1881 showing the cemetery and the whole Kopli peninsula

Tallinn Bay

Paljassaare Bay (Tallinn Bay)

Paljassaare

Kopli Bay (Tallinn Bay)

Paljassaare

Kopli

Kopli Bay (Tallinn Bay)

Pelguranna,
Kopli Bay (Tallinn Bay)

Pelguranna, Sitsi

v t e Administrative districts (linnaosad) and subdistricts (asumid) of Tallinn

Haabersti	Astangu Haabersti Kakumäe Mäeküla Mustjõe Õismäe Pikaliiva Rocca al Mare Tiskre Väike-Õismäe Veskimetsa Vismeistri

Kesklinn	Aegna Juhkentali Kadriorg Kassisaba Keldrimäe Kitseküla Kompassi Luite Maakri Mõigu Raua Sadama Sibulaküla Südalinn Tatari Tõnismäe Torupilli Ülemistejärve Uus Maailm Vanalinn Veerenni

Kristiine	Järve Lilleküla Tondi

Lasnamäe	Katleri Kurepõllu Kuristiku Laagna Loopealse Mustakivi Pae Paevälja Priisle Seli Sikupilli Sõjamäe Tondiraba Ülemiste Uuslinn Väo

Mustamäe	Kadaka Mustamäe Sääse Siili

Nõmme	Hiiu Kivimäe Laagri Liiva Männiku Nõmme Pääsküla Rahumäe Raudalu Vana-Mustamäe

Pirita	Iru Kloostrimetsa Kose Laiaküla Lepiku Maarjamäe Mähe Merivälja Pirita

Põhja-Tallinn	Kalamaja Karjamaa Kelmiküla Kopli Merimetsa Paljassaare Pelgulinn Pelguranna Sitsi

Coordinates: 59°27′37″N 24°40′16″E / 59.460218°N 24.670991°E / 59.460218; 24.670991

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