Kiviõli
Sign in to saveKiviõli ( ; ) is an industrial town in Ida-Viru County, Estonia, established in 1922. The main industry in the town is oil shale mining, which gives the town its name.
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- Kiviõli
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- Town
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- Estonia
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- Location in Estonia
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- Country
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- County
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- 24px Ida-Viru County
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- Municipality
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- 24px Lüganuse Parish
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- Founded
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- 1922
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- 11.75
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- 4792
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- 2024
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- 23rd
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Kiviõli ( ; ) is an industrial town in Ida-Viru County, Estonia, established in 1922. The main industry in the town is oil shale mining, which gives the town its name.
==History== In 1922, the joint-stock company Eesti Kiviõli () established an oil shale quarry in land belonging to the village of Salaküla, and mining commenced in 1930. A worker's settlement belonging to the village of Varinurme was built in the 1930s and named Kiviõli after the joint-stock company. Kiviõli became a town in 1946.