An underground museum has been opened in the former Kohtla mines.
Join an excursion with a guide to see how oil shale is mined and the machinery and technology that is used to do so.
Take a ride on an underground train and try your hand at drilling, using a real drill! The above-ground exhibits and underground visit take around one hour and a half to see and complete.
The museum provides every visitor with a special jacket, helmet and miner’s lamp.
A legend says local peasants received a miraculous relevation on this hill and later on found an Orthodox icon most holy under the oak-tree here, a sacrificial one itself. All of this happened in the 16th century.
To honor those events a chapel was e...
Location: Peterburi mnt 2, Narva linn, Ida-Virumaa, 20308
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Location: Valaste küla, Kohtla vald, Ida-Virumaa, 41557
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