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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, many entries missing, no photos with the streets yet, layout not finalized...

This started with a book (last few pages under review) and so far 1814 of the 1884 articles (A to Z, with 50-odd Ts remaining) entered so far, so some 5% of the links 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!

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Vana-Mustamäe

Vana-Mustamäe (Vana-Mustamägi) Symbol designating a Tallinn "Asum", or Sub-district.

Sometimes known too as Sinisemägi, blue mountain (but see Sinimäe for what it looks like from a distance in the mist). With a quick boing as Trampliini (1965-67), and previously known as plain old Mustamäe and variants Черногорская (Chernogorskaya), which also back-translates as Montenegrin, and Hohenhauptstraße which doesn’t: ‘upper high street’ (1926), Sinise mäe (1919) and Синегорская (Sinegorskaya), both meaning blue mountain. See Mäe for discussion.

Vana-Pärnu

Vana-Pärnu (Vana-Pärnu)

Old Pärnu. Whether this actually was the ‘old’ road to Parnu remains to be determined. At least, it didn’t seem to be in 1914…

Vaniku

Vaniku (Vanik)

Wreath, garland, chaplet, ranging from the traditional garland of flowers to the increasingly popular garland of autumn leaves draped below the window, to woven headdresses. Previously known by its Pelgulinn synonym Pärja in 1959.

Värava

Värava (Värav)

Gate, gateway. Odd, name stated as random, but between two fungi Riisika and Puraviku on its E half, and next to Kaitse on its W half, random I think not. Given the nearby Liiva station was a junction for Peter the Great’s Naval Fortress Railway, and the street ending some 150 m from Vabaduse puiestee (qv.), I suspect a one-time checkpoint of some sort. Could be wrong.

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