The island of Vilsandi in Saaremaa Parish of Estonia's Saare County is located in the Baltic Sea. It covers an area of some 9 square km and is the westernmost populated island in Estonia. The surrounding waters are shallow and rocky and many ships travelling the Baltic have perished nearby. The island of Vilsandi can be reached by boat, by truck having suitable clearance or on foot by wading from Saaremaa. Much of the island is now part of Vilsandi National Park, which grew from a bird reserve founded in 1910. It is a highly sensitive ecosystem due to the use of the area by many migratory birds as a breeding and nesting ground. Hunting is absolutely prohibited. This park is a popular tourist destination not only for local Estonians, but also people of Finland who are visiting Estonia in greater and greater numbers.
In Albanian and Turkish, Kadri is a masculine given name. In Estonian, Kadri is a feminine given name. The name entered Latvian as the variant of Kadri, Kadrija.
Tsybulenko is a surname of Ukrainian origin. The surname, Tsybulenko, was created by adding the Ukrainian patronimic suffix, -enko, to word.
Wrangel or Wrangell is a Germanic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Artur is a cognate to the common male given name Arthur meaning "bear-like", or “of honour”. It is believed to possibly be descended from the Roman surname Artorius or the Celtic bear-goddess Artio or more probably from the Celtic word artos ("bear"). Other Celtic languages have similar first names, such as Old Irish Art, Artúur, Welsh Arth - which may also be the source for the modern name. Art is also a diminutive form of the common name Arthur. In Estonian, and many Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages the name is spelled as Artur. The Finnish versions are Arttu and Artturi.
Kovalenko is a very common Ukrainian surname.
Vint is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kuznets or Kusnets is a gender-neutral Russian surname that may refer to:
Sepp is a surname. When borne by Estonian-descended people, it is usually derived from sepp meaning "smith".
Saks is a German and Estonian surname, meaning a person from the region of Saxony. The region is named after the Germanic tribe which settled there in Roman times. The name may refer to:
Puusepp is an Estonian surname meaning 'carpenter' and may refer to the following individuals:
Anton or Antón is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kask is an Estonian surname meaning "birch". Notable people with the surname include:
Kulik is a Slavic, Jewish and German surname. The Czech-language form, Kulík, is a diminutive of "Mikuláš" ("Nicholas") via "Mikulík". The Russian is both "Kulik" and "Kullik". The Ukrainian is "Kulik" and sometimes "Kulyk". In English it has at times been transliterated as "Kulick".
Toome is a surname in Estonia, and may refer to:
Kokk is Estonian occupational surname literally meaning "cook".
Õun is an Estonian surname meaning "apple". As of 1 January 2020, 292 men and 338 women have the surname Õun in Estonia. Õun ranks 152nd for men and 143rd for women in the distribution of surnames in the country. The surname Õun is the most common in Saare County, where 27.73 per 10,000 inhabitants of the county bear the surname. Notable people bearing the surname Õun include:
Tohme or Tohmé is an Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Vares is a surname. In the Estonian language and some dialects of Finnish the word literally means "raven". Notable people with the surname include:
Jonson is a surname, a patronymic of Jon. It has also been used rarely as a given name.
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