Kullamaa (Kullamaa)

Lit. gold or gold-bearing land, ‘Eldorado’, maybe? One-time cul-de-sac off the Kitseküla end (i.e. NE) of Tondi, but once seen elsewhere as a street running through the old Charlottentali tikumanufaktuur (see Charlottentali), the Soviet Union’s then third-greatest match-manufacturing plant. But now – typo, booze, ‘senior moment’? – untrackable…  Previously known (1915) as Гольденбекская (Goldenbekskaya), a transliteration of Ger. Goldenbeck, from MLG Goldenbek (gold river/brook), often translated as Kullamaa, a relatively common placename in Estonia.