Vändra (German: Fennern) is a borough (Estonian: alev) in Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish in Pärnu County, Estonia. It has a population of 2,191 and an area of 3.28 km².[1]
Vändra is the birthplace of Estonian journalist and poet Johann Voldemar Jannsen (1819–1890) and his daughter, poet Lydia Koidula (1843–1886).
The old Vändra railway station
Notable people
- Karl von Ditmar (1822–1892), Baltic-German geologist and explorer
- Tanel Kangert (born 1987), professional cyclist
- Alar Laneman (born 1962), politician
- Artur Lind (1927–1989), biologist
- Ain-Ervin Mere (1905-1969), military officer implicated in the Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia in 1961[3]
- Agnes Oaks (born 1970), ballet dancer
- Anton Õunapuu (1887–1919), physical education teacher, soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts movement in Estonia
- Tarvo Seeman (born 1969), chess player