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 .
Rahvakooli (Rahvakool)
State primary or elementary school. Naming pretty much identical to that of its immediate neighbor Metsakooli.
Rahvamaleva (Rahvamalev)
Voluntary People’s Patrol, Soviet militia helpers. Job limited to low-level policing, corralling drunkards and so on, although a number of them worked on a more fundamental approach to policing by protecting citizens from bar-stool splinters. Soviet occupation renaming (1959-1994) of Hiiu-Maleva. With a history of chronic name change: Started as Ohvitseri (officer), split up into Maleva and Tamme (which used to be Walkre after local houseowner Mr Walker) in 1922 with an interlude as Ava (opening, orifice), and brief flirtations with Taru (see Asula) (1940) and Käolina (1959).
Raiduri (Raidur)
Cutter. Odd on its own, often found in compound nouns such as kiviraidur (stone-cutter) or puuraidur (wood-cutter). One of an occupational street-name group. See Rätsepa.
