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Terase (Teras)
Steel; figuratively, a knife. One of a metals street group. See Tina. Earliest records (1880) give a muddled bundle of German, Russian and Estonian names Tschortowstraße, Чортова / Чертова (Chortova / Chertova) and Tšortovi / Tschortovi, which all seem to indicate “devil’s street”, but was probably a misspelling of the name of an inn that had been there since the 18th C. Either way, street renamed in 1880 as Большая Епинатьевская ул. (Great Epinatiev street) after Russian businessman Алексей Дмитриевич Епинатьев, Alexei Dimitrivitch Epinatiev (1819-1878), founder of Gusli (a couple of hundred meters away as the balalaika sounds [so probably not heavy metal then], see Narva); family made hereditary honorary citizens for services to cultural education in 1872.
Telliskivi (Telliskivi)
Brick, tile. See also Kivi. Named after brick factory founded in 1879 by Johann Grabby (probably located at what is now Mulla 2 or 4) hence its other former name of Grabbysche Straße (±1884). See Kopli and Pelgulinna asum.
Ugala (Ugala)
One-time province of south-eastern Estonia, otherwise known as Ugandi, Ugania, Ungannia or, most accurately, Ugaunia, encompassing the present-day counties of Põlva, Tartu, Valga and Võru. The Latvian for Estonia is Igaunija. Soviet occupation renaming (1960-1990): Leberechti H. Also western half of the arc that was once the semi-circular Kaare.
Ülemiste (Ülemiste)
Lake, now reservoir, in Tallinn, and mythological character: the little old man of Ülemiste, Ülemiste Vanake. Legend has it that he checks the city out every year and, if told it’s now complete, will flood it. Why? If you know of any god that ever made a rational decision, you tell me. For reasons of ecology, airplanes are reportedly not allowed to fly over the lake. For other reasons, they do.
