Kusa is a village in theArona Parish ofMadona Municipality in theVidzeme region ofLatvia. As of 2008, Kusa had a population of 686. Kusa is situated by theP30 road at the 8th kilometer heading fromMadona towardsCēsis.
Kusa mostly developed from a formermanor with few houses into a village underSoviet rule in the 1970s under the guidance of the PMK-19land improvement brigade (Latvian:Pārvietojamā mehanizatoru kolonna, MobileMechanizator Column), which was drainingmarshes and working on otheramelioration tasks for the local Soviet collective farm (kolkhoz). Block houses,a district heating system and paved roads were built. Kusa has apostal office (postal code LV-4847), primary school (Kusas pamatskola) with approximately 250 students, small shops, a hotel, saw mill, car-repair workshops and a gas station.[1]
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