Names
Pärnulõuka (Pärnulõugas)
Pärnu Bight. The shoreline has advanced seawards (northwards) since well before the 19th C (see Liiva), adding equal doses of real estate and confusion with Pärnu Bight (Pärnulõugas) either ‘inside’ or part of Paljassaare Laht (see Lahe). Another road of miscellaneous municipal manifestation, part path, part track... Not one streetsign anywhere, nor any local aware of its existence (one of whom a 40-year resident).
Partisani (Partisan)
Member of a resistance guerrilla movement against the Axis occupation of the Soviet Union during WWII. Soviet renaming (1980-1994) of Raadiku.
Parve (Parv)
Raft, after local liferaft station. Word also means flock, school or swarm.
Pasternaki M. (Mikhail Fadeevich Pasternak, 1908-1941)
Captain of the 1941 operational group of the Destruction (or Extermination) Battalions (Rus.: Истребительные батальоны [Istrebitelnyye batalony], Est.: Hävituspataljonid) formed from ‘local’ communists to fight Anti-Soviet partisans using, among others, an up-graded version of scorched earth tactics expanded to include not only farms, but also farmers, their wives, laborers and children. For some, a war criminal or perpetrator of crimes against humanity, for others (paraphrasing): “a hero whose name is inscribed in gold letters”. Please choose. No relation to Boris, author of Omar Sharif Goes to Town. See also Oki F. Soviet renaming (1979-1995) of Pikri.
Patareisadam (0)
Passenger port/terminal next to Linnahall. Group of five ports/harbors in Kalamaja. See Kalasadama.
Patkuli
(Dietrich Friedrich Patkul [?-1710])
Aka Dietrich von Friedrich Patkul, Friedrich Diederich Pattküll, etc. Swedish soldier and Vice-governor of Tallinn from 1707-1710. Apparently... Although his infamous and ill-fated relative Johann Reinhold von Patkul (1660-1707) – born in Stockholm prison and broken on the wheel in Poland for his part in the Great Northern War and desire to wrest Livonia from Swedish hands – may well have made him a more covert candidate. Name applies to both the steps (trepp) and the viewing-platform / belvedere (vaateplatvorm) itself on Toompark. See also Pilstickeri torn or trepp.
