Surprisingly, I heard no-one talks Estonian here: not border guards, not exchange office stuff, not Information officers. There are 2 or 4 percents of Estonians live in Narva.At the border in Ivangorod I met two sweet Danes (at the picture) going home after visit to St.Petersburg.
As I already said, Estonian language is not the basic language used in the city, and despite of improvement of knowledge of state language during last 10 years, it is still not welcomed by population, and not neccesarily understood. Your Estonian phrasebook can become useless. However, you will be surprised how friendly people can be if you know some words in Russian.
Eat some russian food together with some russian people and ask them if they could sing some russian songs for you
Very famous person, is it? This monument to Lenin decorated main town square some yeas ago. But now he is standing in the corner of the fortress.
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Q: Hello all Is there definitely a train line that runs from Narva to St Petersburg? I'm planning to enter Russia through this town...
A: Estonian railway company just canceled the only Tallinn-St.Petersburg train recently (after September only Tallinn-Moscow train left), so you can't use the train on this...
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