Vypusu (village)

According to the 2011 census , 195 people lived in the village, of which 128 (65.6%) were Estonians ^[2] .

According to the register of the Ryapinsky volost, as of January 1, 2017, there were 193 residents in the village, about 100 households are used year-round ^[3] .

As of January 1, 2018, there were 180 residents in the village ^[4] .

The village is located 27 kilometers east of the county town of Põlva and 4 kilometers southeast of the rural town of Räpina . Height above sea level - 33 meters ^[5] . The area of ​​the village is 1.17 km ^{2 [3]} .

The houses in the village are located on both banks of the Vykhandu river, to the mouth of which a little more than 3 kilometers are from here ^[6] .

In the village there is a library and a post office ^[7] . The Vyypsus parish of St. Nicholas of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church operates ^[7] .

The village of Vyypsu developed separately from the village of the same name Vyypsu , located on the right bank of the Vykhandu River.

Together with the village of Võõpsu, the village of Võõpsu belongs to the 2nd class of valuable landscapes of Põlvamaa (3 classes stand out), that is, it is an area of ​​high county significance ^[8] .

The written sources of 1428 mention Vybovsk, 1558 - Weipso , 1582 - Wybowka , 1588 - Wybowsk , 1601 - Wibowsck , 1627 - Wybofsky , Wiepsa , 1630 - Wäps kylla , 1638 - Wibowsky , Webowsky , 1686 - Wibofska , 1798 - Wöbs manor, ~ 1910 - Webs, 1923 - Võõbsu , Vybovsk ^[9] .

Ryapin Manor played an important role in the creation of the village of Vyypsu , the owners of which built a tavern in its place around 1601 , which at the same time became the stopping point for ships that went between Tartu and Pskov . Later, a pottery factory and a leather tanning workshop were built in Võõpsu. ^[7] A motor mill was operating in the village ^[6] .

The cattle-breeding manor Vyypsu, founded by Ryapin’s estates in 1638 , did not survive, at the beginning of the 18th century it was rebuilt. In 1857 , the village of Vyypsu was founded on the lands of the manor ^[9] .

At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, the village of Vyypsu was an important center of trade and port . In tsarist times, fairs in Vyypsu were known far beyond the region. In 1923, 8,000 passengers were transported through the port of Vyypsu, 700 ships delivered 1,300 tons of goods here and transported 6 times more (mainly wood and bricks ). ^[6]

These times are described in his novel Life Path ( Elutee , 1938) by Estonian writer ^[6] .

The village grew until 1920 , after which the roads leading to Pskov and the Warm Lake ( Est. Lämmijärv - Lammijärv) were closed, and the village lost its importance as a port and center of trade.

May 12, 1939 in the village there was a big fire , which destroyed most of the buildings ^[7] .

Until 1946 there was no bridge in Vyypsu, and communication between the village on the right bank and the village on the left bank of the river was carried out with the help of barges and ferries . In 1946, a wooden bridge was built by German prisoners of war, and shipping from the ports of the village of Vyypsu and the village of Vyypsu ceased. In 1968, a concrete bridge was built. The last passenger ships sailed to Vyypsu in the 1950s . ^[ten]

Most likely, the toponym Vyypsu in Russian, German and Swedish contains the old Russian name for the Vykhandu river - Vybovka (in the Estonian language it is inclined to be Vyybo ~ Vyyp ) and the word “suu” ( Est. Suu - “mouth”), since the settlement It is located on the first highest place from the mouth of the river ^[9] .

Literary critic and actress were born in Võõpsu.

In the village of Vyypsu there was a summer house of the actor, theater director and teacher Voldemar Panso .

• Vypypsu Orthodox Church , which is under state protection as a monument of architecture ^[11] ,
• cobblestone pavement leading along Sadama Street to the Võhandu River (entered in the Estonian State Register of Cultural Monuments as a historical monument ^[12] ).

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  Võõpsu Village in 1921

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  Võõpsu Village in 1927

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  Fire tower of Vyypsu village in 2015

• The village of Võõpsu in 1910
• The village and port of Võõpsu in 1920
• Ryapinskoe highway in the village of Vyypsu, 1920
• Post office and shop in the village of Vyipsu in 1925
• Village house Võõpsu in 1925
• The ruins of the inn Vyypsu, 1920-1930-ies
• The development of the village of Vyypsu near the market square in 1930
• Võõpsu elementary school in the 1930s
• Fire in Vyypsu in 1939
• Võõpsu village after a fire in 1939
• Fire Tower Vyypsu in 1940

• Võõpsu aleviku ja küla maastikuhoolduskava. Tartu. 2003 / Landscape care program for the village and village of Võõpsu. Tartu 2003 ( est. )