Juminda is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

[3] It is located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, on top of the Juminda Peninsula, on the territory of Lahemaa National Park.

[1] In August 1941, one of the deadliest naval battles in the world took place near the Juminda peninsula.

It was part of the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn when the Soviets planned to evacuate parts of the Baltic Fleet from Tallinn to Leningrad but were stopped by a 32 km long strip of mines placed by the Germans and Finns.

According to historian Mati Õun, 52 ships were sunk with up to 25,000 people on board.