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Fire, flood or disaster · 1924

Lake Peipus floods Vasknarva

Peipsi vesi ujutab Vasknarva

In April 1924 the level of Lake Peipus rose 120 centimetres above normal. At Vasknarva, the old village at the point where the Narva river leaves the lake, about 50 houses stood more than an arshin, some 70 centimetres, deep in water, and the cooperative paper warned that the lake threatened to break straight through the village. The Peipus shore suffered several such high-water years in the 1920s. Vasknarva is still a small lakeside village, with the ruins of a medieval order castle and an Orthodox convent on the river bank.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

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1924. aasta aprillis tõusis Peipsi vesi 120 sentimeetrit üle tavalise. Vasknarvas, vanas külas seal, kus Narva jõgi järvest välja voolab, seisis umbes 50 maja üle arssina ehk umbes 70 sentimeetri sügavuselt vees ja ühistegevuse leht hoiatas, et vesi ähvardab külast otse läbi murda. 1920. aastatel oli Peipsi kaldal mitu sellist suurveeaastat. Vasknarva on tänini väike järveäärne küla, jõe kaldal on ordulinnuse varemed ja õigeusu klooster.

Map of the area around Lake Peipus floods Vasknarva
58.99800° N, 27.73800° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Ühistegelised Uudised, 25 April 1924, p. 1 (DIGAR) ↗

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