The population of Russians in Estonia is estimated at 320,000, most of whom live in the urban areas of Harju and Ida-Viru counties. The Estonian estonia ussr relations for Russians vene, venelane derives from an old Germanic loan veneð referring to the Wends, speakers of a Slavic language who lived on the southern coast of the Baltic sea. 1061 when the Kievans were driven out by the tribe of Sosols. A medieval proto-Russian settlement was in Kuremäe, Vironia.