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The Kuristiku district (red) in the Lasnamäe district of Tallinn (yellow)

Residential houses in Kuristiku

Kuristiku (in German "Felsenkluft") is a district ( Estonian asum ) of the Estonian capital Tallinn . It is located in the Lasnamäe district (German "Laaksberg").

description

The city district has 11,024 inhabitants (as of May 1, 2010). It is located on the northern edge of the Lasnamäe limestone plateau.

The district was created on the site of the former village of Kuristiku. The cityscape is dominated today by prefabricated high-rise buildings in the Soviet style that were built out of the ground in the 1970s and 1980s. As in all of Lasnamäe, the majority of the population is Russian-speaking.

Web links

Commons : Kuristiku  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kuristiku Gymnasium (German and other languages)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 59 ° 27 '  N , 24 ° 52'  E