Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Estonia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Estonia |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Ida-Viru County |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Narva-Jõesuu |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 42 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Sirgala is a village in Narva-Jõesuu municipality, Ida-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia.[1] It is entirely surrounded by Mustanina village. Prior to the 2017 administrative reform of local governments, Sirgala was a neighbourhood and a distant exclave of the city of Kohtla-Järve. Much like the nearby village of Viivikonna, the village originated as a settlement for shale oil mine workers and large parts of it have been abandoned after the mines were closed.[2]
Sirgala training area of the Estonian Defence Forces, is located south of Sirgala on a reforested oil-shale mining area in Mustanina village.