Names
1. liin (0)
1st line. Streets 1. liin to 5. liin are calqued on the ‘Lines’ of Saint Petersburg’s Vasilyevsky Island, where each one was originally the line of houses either side of a canal (later filled in). Tallinn’s 1. Liin today is in a sorry state: an abandoned wasteland of burned-out houses, shipping containers and a sense of desolation. But take heart, like its more thoroughbred thoroughfares, it will be redeveloped. As a reminder on the Estonian concept of street (see Introduction), 1. liin is actually two streets parallel to each other, although ‘streets’ is stretching things a bit too.
Also, as another reminder, if the street name is already in the nominative (rare), its usual place in brackets is left as ‘0’.
1. Tehase (1. Tehas)
Tehas is a works or factory, and Tallinn had a number of streets called this, five of them – 1. Tehase ... 5. Tehase – in Pae and eliminated in 1984 (and not, as mistakenly stated in the first edition “scuppered by the building of Admiraliteedi bassein”, which is almost 5 km away). KNAB does not record a 6. Tehase but does list 7. Tehase sadam, this renamed as Noblessneri sadam. Likewise, the one-time Tehase tänav is now called Naaritsa. The present entry also presages the protean orthography of Tallinn toponymy: whereas the previous entry, 1. liin, must be writ in lower-case, this one was capitalized. It gets worse, see Patriarh Aleksius II.
NB: for those who don’t read introductions, forget fast or need constant reminders: headwords of street names no longer in existence, mainly former Soviet namings, are struck through.
