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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, layout not finalized...

This started with a book (last few pages under review) and only 511 of the 1855 articles, A to J and part through K, entered so far, so many links going nowhere.

Contact

Photograph of Simon Hamilton in Pikk street, Tallinn.

I've heard that a company that uses its owner's name is more trustworthy because they've 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 streeet in Kesklinn (apart from Mõigu), most of Põhja-Tallinn and some Kristiine.

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

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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. 

Names

Aianduse

Aianduse (Aiandus)

Gardening, horticulture. One of Tallinn’s second-largest street zones built on former market-garden land in Mähe Aedlinn, see Arnika.

Aiatee

Aiatee (Aiatee)

Garden path. Sort of: this one used to be Aia tee, garden road/path, but it wasn’t enough, so they added a ‘street’ (Aiatee tänav) to produce ‘garden road/path street’. Renamed as Aia [tee] in 2014. See Aia for an introduction to the mess.

Aida

Aida (Ait)

Outbuilding, storehouse, granary, after the granaries dating back to the 17th C at least. See, for example, the one converted into the present-day Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design on the corner of Lai, or the Olde Hansa on Vana Turg. Prior to this, known as Speichergasse or ‑straße [Ger.] or Амбарный пер, etc. [Ru.] (warehouse/barn alley), Kleine Klosterstraße (Lesser Convent St) until sometime around the 18th C and at one time simply põiktänav kloostri müüri ääres (± ‘side road running along the cloister walls’, in TT but not KNAB).

  1. Äigrumäe
  2. Aisa
  3. Akadeemia
  4. Äkke

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