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Kingisepp

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Kingisepp , city, NW European Russia, SW of St. Petersburg, near the Estonian border, on the Luga River. A river port, it has leather and shoe industries. The site was settled in the 9th cent., and the fortress of Yam was founded there in 1384 as a frontier post of Novgorod. The fortress was taken by Sweden in 1585 and passed to Russia in 1703, when it was renamed Yamburg. In 1922 it was renamed for an Estonian Communist leader.

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Kingisepp

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Kingisepp, Leningrad/Russia Yam, Yamburg Founded as Yam after the Yam people in 1384, becoming Yamburg ‘Fort of the Yam’ in 1780. In 1922 it was renamed again after Viktor Kingisepp (1888–1922), Estonian leader of the Estonian Communist Party in 1918–22 when he was sentenced to death for his revolutionary activities. See also Kuressaare.

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