Võru railway station
Võru train station is a suburban [1] train station located in Võru, Estonia.
There is no passenger rail service to the station as of 2014.[2] There was hope of having passenger trains stop at the station, but in 2010, the Estonian railways said they were not interested. Regardless, the station would have to be upgraded to meet current standards; it sits in disrepair with the windows boarded up.[3] In 2015, a project by Estonian director Anna Hints consisting of interviews with survivors of the Soviet deportations was installed in the station as part of Estonia's Kilometre of Sculpture festival.[4]
History
The station dates from the Tsarist era. It is recognized as an historic structure by the Estonian government, with ID #1829 in the National Register of Cultural Monuments.[5]
A granite memorial plaque at the station commemorates the deportation by train of Estonian residents in June 1941 (as part of the June deportation) and March 1949 (as part of Operation Priboi) that passed through the railway station heading to Siberia. It reads "Passers-by, remember!"[6]
References
- ^ "Fotode". Photo description page (see the Russian original caption). National Archives of Estonia. 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
- ^ "Transportation". VisitVoru.ee. Võru County. 2014. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
- ^ Rein Raudvere (December 11, 2010). "Võrulased võivad jäädagi reisironge ootama". maaleht.delfi.ee. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
- ^ "Abandoned Estonian train station in shared memory art project". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
- ^ "Võru raudteejaam • XX sajandi arhitektuur" [Voru train station, 20th-century architecture] (in Estonian). Muinsuskaitseamet (The National Heritage Board). 2009. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
- ^ Ülo Tootsen (2009-07-07). "Rongid, rongid, kuhu te..." [Trains, Trains, where you ...]. www.lounaleht.ee (in Estonian). Retrieved May 5, 2014.
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