As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 761, of which the Estonians were 717 (94.2%).
Stan Martyniouk (born June 22, 1985 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian professional boxer in the Super Featherweight division.
Aleksei Terentjev (born May 13, 1977) is an Estonian professional ice hockey player, who currently plays for ASK/Ogre.
He competed in the Greco-Roman lightweight competition along with two other Estonians, Georg Baumann and Oskar Kaplur, at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, where he was eliminated after losing against Ödön Radvány and Karel Halík.
Öpik fled his native country in 1944 because the approaching Red Army raised fear among Estonians.
Thus many Estonians in the Russian Army returned home to take up arms for their homeland.
It is widespread in the cities of Tallinn and Pärnu among deaf ethnic Estonians; deaf Russian Estonians in Tallinn use Russian Sign Language, Russians outside Tallinn tend to use a Russian–Estonian Sign Language pidgin, or may be bilingual.
With the advent of World War II and the Soviet invasion and occupation of Estonia, he was subsequently mobilized into Soviet army, but, like many other Estonians, moved to work battalions in Kotlas, Russia.
He competed in the Greco-Roman lightweight competition along with two other Estonians, August Kippasto and Oskar Kaplur, at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, where he was eliminated after losing against later winner Emil Väre and Johan Alfred Salonen.
In his self-inflicted exile in Tallinn the author has been depicting Estonians weekly in the national media, first with a column in Eesti Ekspress and currently in the main Estonian daily newspaper Postimees.
It is worthy of mention that especially as of the end of the 19th century there was also a great deal of contact with Estonians, namely between (Kurzeme) Livonian fishers or mariners and the Estonians from Saaremaa or other islands.
Born in Siberia, Russia where her parents, both teachers, were residing in exile together with hundreds of other Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians.
The strait has been suggested to be the location of the Battle of the Iron Gate which took place in 1032 between the Estonians and Novgorodians led by Ulf Ragvaldsson.
The Estonians sent two armoured trains to aid the Latvians (according to some explanations, in exchange for Latvia ceding the island of Ruhnu and its territorial waters to Estonia) while the Lithuanians were engaged in battles with the Bolsheviks and could only issue diplomatic protests.