Names
Silikaadi (Silikaat)
Silicate. Soviet occupation renaming (1939; 1950-1990) of Risti, after the local building-materials industry started by one of Estonia’s Über-Ministers (Labor, Welfare, War and Roads), Oskar Amberg (1878-1963) in the early 1920s. 1.5 km from the sand and concrete materials group, see Silikaltsiidi.
Silikaltsiidi (Silikaltsiit)
Silicalcite, aka silicate concrete, a building-material more commonly known as Laprex, invented and manufactured by Johannes Hint (brother of Aadu Hint, see Vesse), perhaps the only businessman under Soviet occupation to form a joint-venture with the outside world (Austria). Hint was arrested under trumped-up charges in 1981 and sentenced to 15 years. He died of heart attack in Patarei prison (see Suur-Patarei) in 1985. Street home to Silikaat AS, Estonia’s oldest(?) sand and silicate product producers. Part of a sand and concrete materials group, see Kukermiidi.
Silla (Sild)
Bridge. For the bridge at Nõmme railway station.
Silluse (Sillus)
Lintel, supporting crossbeam. Bridge-construction street-name group. See Tala.
Silmiku (Silmik)
Satyr, wood-nymph (sorry to raise your hopes: a satyrid, more prosaically known as brown butterfly), or something with eyes. Part of a lepidopteran group. See also Sinitiiva.
Silmu (Silm)
Lamprey. Two sorts: jõesilm, European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis, and ojasilm, European brook lamprey, L. planeri. Interestingly, aged 21, Sigmund Freud wrote a paper on the anatomy of the lamprey’s notochord (Über den Ursprung der hinteren Nerven-wurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes Petromyzon planeri [name since corrected]). Part of a fish group. See also Säina.
