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Maardu

Town in Harju County, Estonia

Summary

Town in Harju County, Estonia

Field	Value
name	Maardu
settlement_type	Town
image_skyline	Muuga.jpg
image_caption	Panorama of Maardu, Port of Muuga in the background. The Iru Power Plant is in the foreground.
image_flag	Flag of et-Maardu.svg
flag_size	125px
image_shield	Maardu vapp.svg
shield_size	75px
blank_emblem_type
pushpin_map	Estonia
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Estonia
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Estonia
subdivision_type1	County
subdivision_name1	[[File:Flag of et-Harju maakond.svg	24px]] Harju County
established_title
established_title1	First mentioned
established_date1	1241
established_title2	Borough rights
established_date2	1951
established_title3	Town rights
established_date3	1980
leader_party	Estonian Centre Party
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Vladimir Arhipov
area_total_km2	22.76
elevation_m	20
population_total	16875
population_as_of	2025
population_rank	8th
population_density_km2	auto
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	74111
website	www.maardu.ee
iso_code	EE-446

the town

Maardu (, ) is a town and a municipality in Harju County, Estonia. It is part of Tallinn metropolitan area, located about 15 km east of the capital city. The town covers an area of 22.76 km2 and has a population of 16,875 (as of 18 June 2025).

The Port of Muuga, the largest cargo port in Estonia, is partly located in Maardu.

According to the 2000 Census, the population was 16,738. 61.7% were Russians, 19.9% Estonians, 6.6% Ukrainians, 5.7% Belarusians, 1.5% Tatars. The proportion of Estonians was one of the lowest (if not the lowest) in Central and Western Estonia.

Outside the town (in the village of Maardu), south of the road to Narva lies Maardu manor, one of the oldest preserved baroque manor houses in Estonia. It traces its origins to 1389, but the current building dates from the 1660s with additions made in the 19th century. The landlord of the manor Herman Jensen Bohn in 1739 funded the printing of the first bible printed in Estonian.

Maardu neighborhoods

Maardu may be divided into six parts:

Kallavere (the centre of the city where most of the public institutions are located)
Muuga Harbour
Muuga aedlinn (former garden city, now a light residential suburb more connected to Tallinn than Kallavere)
Kärmu (industrial area)
Kroodi (industrial area)
Lake Maardu

Demographics

Ethnicity	1959	1970	1979	1989	2000	2011	2021	amount	%	amount	%	amount	%	amount
Estonians	1475	34.9	2110	30.7	2167	21.7	2479	15.4	3331	19.9	4347	24.8	3746	23.2
Russians	-	-	3254	47.3	5656	56.7	10024	62.4	10331	61.7	10845	61.9	10037	62.1
Ukrainians	-	-	298	4.33	584	5.86	1269	7.91	1101	6.58	861	4.91	957	5.92
Belarusians	-	-	763	11.1	942	9.45	1281	7.98	949	5.67	660	3.77	536	3.31
Finns	-	-	144	2.09	139	1.39	133	0.83	144	0.86	88	0.50	62	0.38
Jews	-	-	19	0.28	28	0.28	24	0.15	19	0.11	20	0.11	13	0.08
Latvians	-	-	19	0.28	27	0.27	37	0.23	36	0.22	34	0.19	42	0.26
Germans	-	-	-	-	27	0.27	42	0.26	31	0.19	27	0.15	25	0.15
Tatars	-	-	-	-	169	1.70	267	1.66	245	1.46	168	0.96	156	0.96
Poles	-	-	-	-	73	0.73	86	0.54	93	0.56	86	0.49	85	0.53
Lithuanians	-	-	24	0.35	36	0.36	51	0.32	79	0.47	82	0.47	78	0.48
unknown	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	93	0.56	14	0.08	80	0.49
other	2748	65.1	246	3.58	122	1.22	359	2.24	286	1.71	292	1.67	353	2.18

Gallery

File:Maarduveneoigeusukirik100906.jpg|Maardu Archangel Michael Church File:Iru power plant.jpg|Iru thermal power plant File:Maardu jarv.jpg|Lake Maardu File:Maardu manor.jpg|Maardu manor house File:Maardu sunset.jpg|Apartment buildings at sunset File:Veeru street.jpg|Soviet-era apartment buildings File:Kroodi, Maardu1.jpg|Abandoned factory building in Maardu File:Kroodi creek.jpg|Kroodi creek

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"Muuga Harbour". [[Port of Tallinn]].
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