Tapa Parish (Estonian: Tapa vald) is a rural municipality in Lääne-Viru County in northern Estonia.
The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Tapa. It is located 70 km east of Estonia's capital, Tallinn.
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History
Tapa Parish was established by merging in October 2005 the town of Tapa with Lehtse and Saksi rural municipalities and in October 2017 the Tapa and Tamsalu rural municipalities.
Local government
Chairman of the Council (Estonian: volikogu esimees):
2017-2018 - Toomas Uudeberg
from 2018 - Maksim Butšenkov
Mayor (Estonian: vallavanem):
2017-2018 - Alari Kirt
from 2018 - Riho Tell
Geography
Populated places
There are two towns Tapa and Tamsalu, one small borough Lehtse and 55 villages: Aavere, Alupere, Araski, Assamalla, Imastu, Jootme, Jäneda, Järsi, Järvajõe, Kadapiku, Kaeva, Karkuse, Kerguta, Koiduküla, Koplitaguse, Kuie, Kullenga, Kursi, Kuru, Kõrveküla, Lemmküla, Linnape, Loksa, Loksu, Lokuta, Läpi, Läste, Metskaevu, Moe, Naistevälja, Nõmmküla, Näo, Patika, Piilu, Piisupi, Porkuni, Pruuna, Põdrangu, Rabasaare, Raudla, Rägavere, Räsna, Saiakopli, Saksi, Sauvälja, Savalduma, Tõõrakõrve, Türje, Uudeküla, Vadiküla, Vahakulmu, Vajangu, Vistla, Võhmetu, Võhmuta.
Notable people
Jaan Kalviste (1898 in Läste – 1936), chemist and mineralogist, killed in a mass explosion
Voldemar Mägi (1914 in Lehtse – 1954), wrestler, competed as a Greco-Roman middleweight at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Marko Pomerants (born 1964 in Tamsalu), politician, has held three government minister posts
Kaili Sirge (born 1983 in Tamsalu), cross-country skier. She competed in five events at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Elina Born (born 1994 in Lehtse), a singer, has sung twice at the Eurovision Song Contest
Martin Himma (born 1999 in Tamsalu), cross-country skier, flagbearer at the 2022 Winter Olympics