Names
Rahu tee (Rahu)
There are two streets called Rahu: tänav and tee (see Rahu tänav), this is in Lasnamäe, an intended prospekt, or tree-lined avenue (influenced by St Petersburg’s Nevski Prospekt), planned by shiny Soviet propagoptimism to run parallel to then Oktobri prospekt, now Laagna tee), reduced to a housing-estate’s service road, with much of the original track hiding in the bushes.
Rahukohtu (Rahukohus)
Court. Lit. court of peace. Renamed Rahvakohtu, people’s court, by the Soviets (1950-1989), the point of which remains a mystery. Said to be (i.e. it may not be) the narrowest street in Tallinn.
Rahumäe (Rahumägi)
Quiet hill. A pleasant way of saying cemetery. The Rahumäe hiidrahn (erratic boulder) is about half a kilometer east at ///moats.riots.backers .
