Palupera Parish

Palupera ( German: Palloper ) is a rural municipality in the Estonian Valga County with an area of ​​123.62 km ². It has 1138 inhabitants (1 January 2010).

In addition to the main town Hellenurme (170 inhabitants) includes the parish villages Nouni, Hellenurme, Palupera, Päidla, Neeruti, Lutike, Räbi, Urmi, Mäelooga, Atra, Pastaku, Astuvere and Miti ( in descending order by population ).

Worth seeing are the estates of Palupera and Hellenurme. In the latter lived from 1850, the Baltic German scientist Alexander Theodor von Middendorff ( 1815-1894 ), who studied in the Russian service Siberia and the Arctic regions.