Estonia
Interesting facts about Estonia
Estonia, the most northerly of the Baltic states, regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Estonia is a sea country – the length of coastline (3,800 km) is about 6 times longer than the mainland borderline.
The length of the longest day in summer is over 19 hours, while the shortest winter day lasts only six hours. It is not completely dark at night from the beginning of May until the end of July.
Estonia has the highest number of meteorite craters per land area in the world. – Estonians have one of the biggest collections of folk songs in the world, with written records of about 133,000 folk songs.
Estonian Draughts Federation
President of federation Tarmo Tulva
Phone +372-6998 045
Fax +372-6998 040
Tel +372-6446174
Fax +372-699-8040
E-mail viktoria.lehtmets@kabeliit.ee
Lehtmets, Viktoria
Vene 29
10123 Tallinn
Estonia
Best rated players Raivo Rist, Arno Uutma, Anti Ingel
Best rated women’s players Piret Viirma, Kaari Vainonen, Marika Azojan
