Kopli

This article is about the subdistrict of Tallinn. For other places with the same name, see Kopli (disambiguation).

Kopli
Subdistrict of Tallinn
Wooden workers' barracks from the 1910s.
Kopli within Põhja-Tallinn.
Country	Estonia
County	Harju County
City	Tallinn
District	Põhja-Tallinn
Population  (01.01.2015)
• Total	7,240

Kopli (Estonian for "Paddock") is a subdistrict of the district of Põhja-Tallinn (Northern Tallinn) in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is located on the Kopli Peninsula and is bordered by parts of the Tallinn Bay, the Kopli Bay to the southwest and the Paljassaare Bay to the north. Kopli has a population of 7,240 (As of 1 January 2015). Kopli's former German name until 1918 was Ziegelskoppel.

Kopli cemetery

Kopli was the former location of the largest Lutheran Baltic German cemetery in Tallinn, known as Kopli cemetery (in Estonian: Kopli kalmistu; in German: Friedhof von Ziegelskoppel) which was founded around 1774. The cemetery was flattened and destroyed over a 170 years later around 1950–1951, during the second occupation of the Baltic states, by the Soviet authorities who used the area of Kopli as a base for the Soviet Armed Forces. The former cemetery is now a public park.

Landmarks and institutions

• Estonian Maritime Academy (Kopli 101)
• Bekker Port (Kopliranna 49)
• Baltic Ship Repair Yard (Kopli 103)

Gallery

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  Estonian Maritime Academy (formerly the main building of Tallinn University of Technology, 1932–1964).
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  A tram depot in the end of Kopli.
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  Bekker Port in Kopli seen from the Stroomi Beach in Pelguranna.

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  Old wooden houses
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  Newer 5-storey apartment building (khrushchyovka)
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  Streetview in winter

External links

• Image of a historical map from the year 1881 showing the cemetery and the whole Kopli peninsula