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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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Popovi A.

Popovi A.

(Alexander Stepanovich Popov, 1859-1906)

Russian physicist who first demonstrated the practical application of electromagnetic waves (some say inventor of the radio), but failed to apply for a patent. Soviet occupation renaming (1950-1990) of Paavli.

Reindorffi G.

Reindorffi G.

(Günther-Friedrich Reindorff, 1889-1974)

Estonian typographer and graphic designer. In 2008, the Estonian State bank issued a 10-krooni collector banknote (i.e. was desperate for cash) featuring an identical copy of the front of its pre-war granddaddy designed by Reindorff (for information on Estonian currency, see Krooni). Street seems to have existed from 1982-1989.

Leberechti H.

Leberechti H.

(Hans Leberecht, 1910-1960)

Estonian writer, born and raised (essentially) in Russia and couldn’t speak a word of Estonian, winner of the 1949 Stalin Prize (third class) for his 1948 novel Свет в Коорди (Light in Koordi) about clearing a bog (and planting red flags) on a collective farm, where the bourgeois, imperialist, counter-revolutionary, kulak villain can be identified by his ownership of... a pot-plant. HL once lived in this street (No.20). Soviet occupation renaming (1960-1990) of Ugala.

Majakovski V.

Majakovski V.

(Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1893-1930)

Georgian-born Russian poet, playwright and agitpropagandist, committed suicide in 1930. Soviet occupation renaming of Kari (1953-1995) and Sitsi (1953-1990) and Madala until 1963. They seem to have liked him.

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