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Work in progress

A pile of ro ad signs half-trashed and piled up on a building-site, to indicate the site is in construction.

Website under construction, many entries missing, no photos with the streets yet, layout not finalized...

This started with a book (last few pages under review) and so far 1717 of the 1884 articles (A to most of T & Vs included) entered so far, so some 10% of the links go nowhere.

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The Book

All author earnings of A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names to be donated to the foundation or donate here.

If anyone could help or advise as to the legal mechanism, it would be appreciated, thanks!

The Website

Not intended at the beginning, the present website is taking on a life of its own, with plans for relevant discussion forums, picture galleries and, over time, more non-streetname entries.

In theory, it will be funded by advertising relevant to people in Tallinn, to be determined.

A percentage of profits (also to be determined) to be donated to the foundation. 

Contact

Photograph of Simon Hamilton in Pikk street, Tallinn.

Apparently, a company that uses its owner's name is considered more trustworthy because they put themselves on the line.

This is me, in Tallinn this spring (2025), on a 3-month spree to check details, take photos (about 12K), explore (ave. 15K/day), and so on. I think I covered every street in Kesklinn (apart from Mõigu), most of Põhja-Tallinn and some Kristiine.

For information, please contact Simon at this address dot com, thanks!

Names

Tähe

Tähe (Täht)

1) Star; 2) Letter. Street known as Romanovi after a neighboring dynasty (1613-1917) until 1922. Its switch to stellar symbolism may not be unrelated to the changing political fortunes of the times, a message hammered home by its renaming as Vasara from 1940-1941.

Tähesaju

Tähesaju (Tähesadu)

Meteorite shower (lit. starfall). Last of the D&D group as it peters out into the more, shall we say, ‘bricks and mortar’ streets of Kärberi K. and co. See Arbu. Named, like Taevakivi, after local traces of 20-25K year old meteorite impact.

Tähetorni

Tähetorni (Tähetorn)

Observatory (lit. star tower). After the Tallinn Observatory, former watch tower on the Glehni N.v. estate. Tallinn’s previous observatory, the cupola of which can still be seen, was at Estonia 15. For those interested, there is an observatory about 50 km SWS of Tallinn, Rahva Observatoorium Eestis (People’s Observatory of Estonia), in Munalaskme. Its address, Veetorni, suggests a former function.

  1. Tähistaeva
  2. Tähtpea
  3. Täi
  4. Taime

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