Names
Uus Slobodaa (0)
Not a street. No longer exists. So why? History. In the late 1820s, after the brief golden years of Vana Slobodaa, restoration work on the palace began again and a new sloboda (settlement, see Vana Slobodaa above) developed on the other side of Poska, roughly within the perimeter set by Narva, Vilmsi, Tobiase, Terase and Kreutzwaldi, with KNAB centering it at the corner of Kollane and Faehlmanni, At times, both Faehlmanni and Tobiase were given a Sloboda-based name. Known in Rus. as Новая Слобода (novaya sloboda) and sometimes referred to as Uus Agul, once (questionably in this case) meaning ‘new slum’, nowadays, ‘new neighborhood’.
Uus Turg (0)
New market. About 285 m SE of Vana Turg. Now a SWS section of Tammsaare park. The other, older Uus Turg, also known as Vanakraamiturg (‘old stuff’ or junk market, till 1939) or Täiturg (flea market) and Laadaplats (fairground) from 1939-1960 ended up converted into Tallinn bus terminal. Known as 16. Oktoobri park (for some glorious reason) from 1955-1989. See Täi.
Uus-Kalamaja (Uus-Kalamaja)
New Fisherman’s hut. At the end of this road was once a cemetery for Non-Germans’ (Undeutsch [Ger.] or mittesaksa [Est.]: a contemporary term of contempt for Estonians). In the late 18th C, to maintain the road, Tallinn council put a tax on corpses using it: 10 kopeks an adult and 5 per child. Group rates may have been available. See Kalamaja.
Uus-Maleva (Uus-Malev)
New-Army. Street perpendicular to but not connecting with Maleva due to a minor railway in between.
Uus-Sadama (Uus-Sadam)
New Harbor (see Sadama). First known (1882) as Neue Hafenstraße, the street has gone though the usual gamut of name variations, with transliteration into Russian as Новая Гаванная (New Havannaya) and Ново-Гаванская (New Havanskaya) and optimistic equivalents such as Rus. Уус-Садама copying Sadama uus u. but this with its noun and adjective ass-backwards and a ‘u’ for ulitsa (street) tacked on. Home to the once Meremeestekodu (Seaman’s Club / Association), now used by the border patrol, as well as to Tallinn University.
Uus-Tatari (Uus-Tatar)
New Tartary (or, more rarely, Tatary). Earliest record seems to be Kleine Tatarenstraße, 1882. See Tatari.
