#PõhjaTallinn
#Nõlva (Nõlv): Slope, declivity. Perhaps the one leading down to #Paljassaare docks or up to #HundipeaMägi. Next to #Lume, so its previous names of Polaari (1923-1939), or Полярная ул. (Polyarnaya) (1916-) make sense. So maybe ski slope?
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Karjamaa #Hundipea
February 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#Auna (Aun)
Shock of sheaves, stack, cock, or stack of peat. Street started life (1932) as #Muru, German #Rasenstrasse, grass, lawn, turf, and Russian #Дерновая ул, turf-covered or turf-edged,
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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April 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Amburi (Ambur)
Archer, bowman, Sagittarius. Close to #Maleva and #UusMaleva, and hence member of a mini military mêlée. See #Kilbi.
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
#Military #Sõjaline
March 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#Marati (Jean-Paul Marat, 1743-1793)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Swiss-born French revolutionary,
possible inventor of a cure for #gonorrhea, friend of #AngelikaKauffmann,
murdered in bathtub by #CharlotteCorday. Clothing factory named after him by #Sovietized workers.
June 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Aru (Aru)
Dry upland meadow or grassland. Also means reason, mind, intellect, understanding or wits (Ma saan aru means “I understand”, a statement often followed by devastating proof that, in fact, they don’t). Part of a fodder and staples street-name group. See #Auna.
#PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
April 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
April 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#Timuti (Timut)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Timothy grass, cat’s-tail. Formerly known as #Tarabella (1910-1939), at one stage believed to be some #mythological deity, but in fact turned out to be the name of city councilor and arbitrageur #AlbertKoba’s dog.
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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June 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#Kopli kalmistupark
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Following the #MoscowPlagueRiot of 1771, #CatherineTheGreat ordered all burials to be outside town centers. The #Ziegelskoppel cemetery was created in 1774, and destroyed by the #Soviets in the early 50s.
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June 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#3. liin (0)
#PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
3rd line. Formerly known as #Suur-Laevaehituse, 'laevaehitus' meaning shipbuilding (see #1.Tehase) after the #Russo-BalticShipyard (1911-18). This, 4. Liin and part of 5. Liin have been rehabilitated and redeveloped over the pas few years. See also #Liinivahe.
May 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#Ehte (Ehe)
Adornment, ornament, ouch, piece of jewelry. Some would say trinket. Appropriately, next door to #Sõle. Only #Tallinn street name a #palindrome (and by necessity an anagram) in the nominative, but not the genitive.
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
April 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#Lõime (Lõim)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna #Sitsi
Warp (of fabric). (Also the annual ring of a tree.) Anagram of Õilme. One of a textile raw materials street group. See also Niidi.
#Industry #Tööstus
#Technology #Tehnoloogia
June 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Härjapea (Härjapea)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Literally, ox-head. Two main interpretations: 1) as reflected in its earlier #German name, #Kleestraβe (1881, #clover street), after the copious clover covering the land the road was originally built on, both keskmine ristik, zigzag clover,
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May 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#Paavli (Paavel)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Sitsi #Karjamaa
Paul, perhaps afirst or family name, perhaps after a one-time local resident but, given that the horrid agnostics across the border defrocked him (1950-1990) in favor of Popovi A, they too might have guessed the saint (feast day 25th January).
June 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#Telliskivi (Telliskivi)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn #Kalamaja
Brick, tile. See also #Kivi. Named after brick factory founded in 1879 by #JohannGrabby hence its other former name of Grabbysche Straße (±1884). See #Kopli.
#Industry #Tööstus
#BuildingMaterials #Ehitusaterjalid
April 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#Sõle (Sõlg)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn #Pelguranna #Sitsi
Brooch, pin, ouch (not an onomatopoeic consequence of mishandling, ‘ouch’ is derived from French, nouche, the socket of a
tallinnstreets.com/en/sole
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
June 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#Ketta (Ketas)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Disk, discus, puck. Kettamaailm is Discworld, and kõvaketas is hard disk. Why this name in this zone? Perhaps after a former industrial manufacturing-plant?
#Uncertain #Ebakindel
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
June 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#Telliskivi (Telliskivi)
Brick, tile. See also #Kivi. Named after brick factory founded in 1879 by Johann Grabby hence its other former name of Grabbysche Straße (±1884). See #Kopli.
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn #Kalamaja
#TallinnIndustry #TallinnaTööstus
#Stone #Kivi
February 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#Vabriku (Vabrik)
Factory, after an iron foundry built there in the 19th C. Renamed (1964-1990) as #Rabtšinski I. during the #Soviet Era.
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
#Industry #Tööstus
February 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#Mullamaa (Mullamaa)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn
Term not found in any bilingual online dictionary. #Saagpakk gives ‘mold’, #EKSS gives various explanations revolving around rich, piled-up earth, so it looks like the part of the land plowed over for fallow, or
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
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May 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
June 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Kopenhaagen, mitte Minsk...
#250 #PõhjaTallinn #KOV
September 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM