Mustla

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Mustla
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Mustla
Coordinates: 58°14′06″N25°51′47″E / 58.23500°N 25.86306°E / 58.23500; 25.86306
Country Estonia
County Viljandi County
Parish Viljandi Parish
Population
  Total
818
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)

Mustla is a small borough (alevik) in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 818. [1]

From 1938–1979, Mustla was a town with town privileges.

In June 2018, a plaque commemorating Alfons Rebane was unveiled on the wall of a private building in Mustla where he had lived. [2] [3] The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs protested the unveiling. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Population by place of residence (settlement), sex and age". Statistics Estonia. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  2. "Plaque commemorating SS recipient of Iron Cross to be unveiled in Mustla". Eesti Rahvusringhääling. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  3. Liphshiz, Cnaan. "Plaque honouring SS officer unveiled in Estonia". www.jewishnews.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  4. "Comment by the Information and Press Department on the unveiling of a memorial plaque to Waffen-SS Colonel Alfons Rebane in Estonia". The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2018.