Sompa, Kohtla-Järve

Sompa is one of the six districts of the Estonian industrial city Kohtla -Järve in Ida -Viru county. The formerly independent village was incorporated in 1960 Kohtla -Järve.

Description and History

The district is located eight kilometers south-west of the county capital Jõhvi.

Sompa was in 1947 on the territory of the former villages Kohtla- Rutiku and Sompa - Rutiku as Soviet Allotment ( Sompa alev ) for the workers of two nearby oil shale mining areas built (Mine No. 4 and No. 6). The oil shale mines were in operation from 1948 to 1999.

1960 Sompa was the city Kohtla -Järve incorporated. From 1991 to 1993 the site was independent again, before he came to the city Kohtla -Järve again.

Due to the decline of oil shale mining and the collapse of the Soviet heavy industry since the 1990s, the place is now a desolate ghost town with numerous vacant buildings and abandoned building ruins.

In the most dilapidated houses lived in 2003 about 1,600 people, mostly members of the Russian-speaking minority. The end of 2011 lived in Sompa 958 people, including 172 Estonians. Alcoholism and drug abuse are widespread.

Attractions

In the center of the neighborhood, the house is neo-classical culture in the Soviet style. It is adorned by a portico with wide columns.

From 1946 to 1948, the miners of Sompa house was built. There is today only a ruin.