Website under construction, many entries missing, no photos with the streets, layout not finalized...
This started with a book (last few pages under review) and only 486 of the 1855 articles, A to J and part through K, entered so far, so many links going nowhere.
I've heard that a company that uses its owner's name is more trustworthy because they've 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 streeet in Kesklinn (apart from Mõigu), most of Põhja-Tallinn and some Kristiine.
For information, please contact Simon at this address dot com, thanks!
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!
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.
Bear. First recorded as Medvedjevi tn after Russian property owner – bear in Russian is медведь (medved), from Proto-Slavic *medvědь, honey-eater, suggested to have developed as a means of skirting an Indo-European taboo word for bear – later translated and/or transliterated to other variants, Bärenstraße, Medwedi tn, etc., and temporarily renamed Kingissepa V. from 1940-1941. The new Jewish synagogue is at No.16. Only street set with two anagrams: Kura and Raku.
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