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Velikije Luki (Velikije Luki)
Вели́кие Лу́ки, City in Pskov Oblast, Russia (about 150 km SE of Estonia), where the Red Army wiped out a German force of some 7000 in the Battle of Velikiye Luki (1942-3). Also burial place of Matrossovi A.. Literally meaning ‘Great Meanders’ after the meandering Lovat River, but symbolized as longbows on the city’s coat of arms, Estonians ‘interpret’ it, inaccurately but humorously, as ‘Big Onions’ (onion is Лук). Soviet occupation renaming (1979-1995) of Virbi.
Via Baltica (Via Baltica)
Lit. the Baltic Way, or E67, a 1505-km highway originally running from Tallinn to Warsaw, now from Prague to Helsinki, not to be confused with the Baltic Way / Chain (‘way’ in Lithuanian [kelias] and Latvian [ceļš], ‘chain’ in Estonian [kett]), the demonstration of 1989-08-23 when some 2 million people from the above 3 countries formed a 690-km human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius on the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, leading to their independence. August 23rd is now Black Ribbon Day, or European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.
Volmre (?)
Former farm name of obscure origin. A Volbri / Volmri once existed there, named after or name of a farm dependency called Wolmri (1913) which looks like a possible abbreviation of Woldemar, but unsure. New road servicing the new Vikimõisa development.
Tuulemurru (Tuulemurd)
Windfall, wind breakage (in a wood). Although the former kaart.tallinn.ee included a half an inch of this in Tallinn, it’s actually in Laagri.
