This article is about the town. For village in Jõelähtme Parish, seeMaardu (village).
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ThePort of Muuga, the largest cargo port in Estonia, is partly located in Maardu.[3]
According to the 2000 Census, the population was 16,738. 61.7% wereRussians, 19.9%Estonians, 6.6%Ukrainians, 5.7%Belarusians, 1.5%Tatars. The proportion of Estonians was one of the lowest (if not the lowest) in Central and Western Estonia.
Outside the town (in the village ofMaardu), south of the road to Narva liesMaardu manor, one of the oldest preservedbaroque manor houses in Estonia. It traces its origins to 1389, but the current building dates from the 1660s with additions made in the 19th century. The landlord of the manor Herman Jensen Bohn in 1739 funded the printing of the first bible printed in Estonian.[4]
