Jõhvi

The town is located about 50 km west of the Estonia–Russia international border.Jõhvi was first mentioned as a village in 1241 in Liber Census Daniae when it was ruled by Denmark.On 1 May 1938, the government of Estonia upgraded the official status of Jõhvi from a borough to that of an independent town.During the period when Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union, a significant influx of workers from other parts of the Soviet Union was initiated to support the expanding city of Kohtla-Järve, including the then district of Jõhvi.[2][3] In 2024, a teaser for the Estonian-American film «Juvenile Inspektor: The Shadow Over Jõhvi» was filmed in the city, in which the actors took part: Oleksiy Gorbunov, Alexander Ivashkevich, Ella Bardot, Maxim Pokrovsky and others.
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