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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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Tornide

Tornide (Tornid [pl.])

Towers, plural of Torn. Following the 1857-1864 leveling of various earthworks, it became known as Näituse Väljak or Ausstellungspl. (exhibition place), for its agricultural shows. Today a park SE of Rannamäe.

Uus Turg

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.

Virumägi

Virumägi (0)

Viru Hill. Formerly known as Viruvärava mägi (1938-2001), Lehmpfortenanlage (clay-gate recreational area, 1942), and affectionately as Musimägi or Musumägi.

Vilmsi J.

Vilmsi J.

(Jüri Vilms, 1889-1918?)

Along with former President Konstantin Päts (1874-1956, no street named after him, although see Kentmanni) and Konstantin Konik (1873-1936), one of the three members of the ‘Rescue Committee’ which proclaimed Estonian independence on 24 February 1918, assumed executed in Helsinki by German Expeditionary Forces in April the same year. Renamed (1940-1991) as Tombi J. during the first Soviet Occupation. And known from 1885 on as Riesenkampffi plus permutations after alderman Diedrich Ferdinand Riesenkamff who took the Villa Fonne (later a chemist’s) on Narva mnt 50 (corner of Vilmsi) as summer residence in 1845.

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