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Work in progress

A pile of ro ad signs half-trashed and piled up on a building-site, to indicate the site is in construction.

Website under construction, a couple of entries still pending, no photos with the streets yet, layout not finalized...

This started with a book (last few pages under review) and so far 1889 of the 1891 articles entered, 1 or 2 links may go nowhere.

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The Book

All author earnings of A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names to be donated to the foundation or donate here.

If anyone could help or advise as to the legal mechanism, it would be appreciated, thanks!

The Website

Not intended at the beginning, the present website is taking on a life of its own, with plans for relevant discussion forums, picture galleries and, over time, more non-streetname entries.

In theory, it will be funded by advertising relevant to people in Tallinn, to be determined.

A percentage of profits (also to be determined) to be donated to the foundation. 

Contact

Photograph of Simon Hamilton in Pikk street, Tallinn.

Apparently, a company that uses its owner's name is considered more trustworthy because they put themselves on the line.

This is me, in Tallinn this spring (2025), on a 3-month spree to check details, take photos (about 12K), explore (ave. 15K/day), and so on. I think I covered every street in Kesklinn (apart from Mõigu), most of Põhja-Tallinn and some Kristiine.

For information, please contact Simon at this address dot com, thanks!

Names

Siduri (Sidur)

Clutch (of cars, not chickens). The word can also mean coupler, the device used for attaching railway wagons together, particularly tempting since the street is within the Tallinn-Väike railway street set, but no... After much soul- (and spare-part) searching, having seriously considered Aku (battery), Remondi (repair), Piduri (brake), Rehvi (tire) and Velje (wheel-rim), it was named for the immediate vicinity’s history of garages. Such are the great enterprises of this world rewarded...

Sihi (Siht)

Aim, objective, direction. Part of a mini game-name area. See Kurni. Also short for metsasiht, firebreak or, perhaps more suitable, fire line, created in a forest either for security along power lines or as wildfire retardant. See Vahe.

Sihveri J.

(Jaan Sihver, 1879-1918)

Soldier, communist, and member of the Estonian Provincial Assembly, Eestimaa Kubermangu Ajutine Maanõukogu. Soviet occupation renaming (1959-1991) of Vana-Lõuna.

Siia (Siig)

Whitefish, laveret. Two sorts, salt and freshwater: merisiig, common or European whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus, and Peipsi siig, Peipsi whitefish, C. l. maraenoides. Part of a fish group. See also Silgu, with which it is often confused.

Siidisaba (Siidisaba)

Aka viristaja, Bohemian waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus. Breeds in Estonia. Part of the Lilleküla bird-name group of streets. See Sule. 

Siili (Siil) Symbol designating a Tallinn "Asum", or Sub-district.

Hedgehog. The hedgehog has enjoyed modest success in Estonian martial-arts consultancy for their rather obvious observation that slicing rather than thwacking movements are more effective with flat weapons (cf. Kalevipoeg, Canto XII).

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