Püssi

Püssi is an industrial town in Lüganuse Parish, Ida-Viru County, in north-eastern Estonia, close to the road between Tallinn and Saint Petersburg and bordering Lüganuse to the north. Its population fell from about 2,400 in 1989 to 917 in 2018 after the Soviet collapse brought a sharp economic downturn, and in 2013 the town and Maidla Parish were merged into Lüganuse Parish, ending its separate municipal status. Particle board has long been the main industry, centred on the former Repo Vabrikud plant, and the town was chosen as the site of a converter station for the EstLink 2 power cable between Estonia and Finland. Püssi hosts the annual Püssi Punk Festival, held since 2005, and has an artificial hill of oil shale ash used for motocross.