Saatse boot ( Est. Saatse saabas ) - part of the territory of the Krupp volost of the Pechora district of the Pskov region of Russia , protruding into the Estonian territory ( Põlva County in southeastern Estonia ). The site has the shape of a boot and is located in the area of the village of Saatse . For this kilometer, the Estonian highway Värska- Saatse, built in Soviet times, passes through this section. This situation creates significant inconvenience to movement.
Edge Mode
The Russian authorities did not impede the movement of vehicles without border control, but established a special regime for this section: it was forbidden to stop and walk.
Negotiations
The “Saatsi boot” was one of the main subjects of negotiations on the Russian-Estonian border . It was planned to transfer this site to Estonia, in return having received a forest allotment of 68.9 hectares in the Meremäe volost and 33.9 hectares of territory in the vicinity of the Värsk parish.
On May 18, 2005, the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Estonia - Sergey Lavrov and Urmas Paet - put their signatures on the state border treaty. [one]
The area of the “boot” is 115.5 hectares. Along with its transfer to Tallinn, Russia also leaves part of the Estonian lands - the Marinovsky Forest allotment with an area of 68.9 hectares south of the “Saatse boot” in the Meremäe volost and 33.9 hectares of Suursoo territory in the vicinity of the Värska volost. According to the agreement, the state border passed in Estonia along land plots in state, municipal and private ownership. Some plots of land that were transferred to Russia by agreement are also privately owned. If the state fails to agree with the current owners of the plots on the acquisition of land from them, a forced alienation of these plots will take place. Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia had to buy 20 hectares of border land five years ago from a farmer from Pylva County in order for the border line to comply with the agreement.
However, then Russia withdrew its signature and refused to ratify the treaty due to the fact that the Estonian side upon ratification adopted the preamble, in which it refers to the Tartu Treaty of 1920 and the 1992 declaration of the Estonian State Assembly, which supposedly would allow Estonia to again present territorial claims to the Pechora region and the Transarvie with Ivangorod , which were part of Estonia in 1920-1945 [2] .