Names
Auru põik (Aur)
Steam, vapor, as per its daddy post Auru. While the average põik is sensible enough and does what it says on the tin, this one rambled off into the sleepy timberlands of Tallinn-Väike station, never knowing when or where to stop. As punishment it was terminated in the KNAB database in 2010. Let damnatio memoriae do its damndest, computers don’t forget...
Auto (Auto)
Car, automobile. Soviet naming (1927-2001) of today’s Nugise. Despite being the former USSR colony with the highest GDP, as well being as one of the smartest countries on the planet, put a male Estonian in a car and the electro-magnetic radiation short-cuts all and every genetic up-grade since Neanderthals roamed the earth. Beware.
Balti Jaam (0) 
Baltic Station. Not a street, but Tallinn’s main railway station. Odd… While Estonia borrowed Vaksal from Russian which borrowed it from English Vauxhall which borrowed and inversed it from Anglo-Norman la Sale Faukes, (cf. Vaksali), they also borrowed jaam (ям) from the 13-18th-C postal stations providing horses and accommodation in what is now Russia, which had already borrowed it from a Turkic language, poss. Tatar ям (yam) < дзям (dzyam, road), or similar in Uyghur or Chagatai meaning ‘post-station or ‑horses’, which borrowed it from a Mongolian word for ministry or office, but who themselves used Өртөө (Örtöö, checkpoint) for the message relay system originally established by Ögedei Khan (1186-1241). A number of former Russian Empire towns or districts originated thus and are accordingly prefixed by ‘Ям’, the various Ямская слобода́ (Yamskaya sloboda, see Vana Slobodaa), and others (see Kingissepa V.) for example. Not all though: what used to be Сі́верськ (Siversk) in Ukraine, destroyed by Russia in 2022, used also to be Я́ма (Yama), but named after the river, meaning ‘pit’ due to its depth. Starting-point of, inter alia, the Tallinn-Pärnu and Tallinn-Viljandi railway lines.
Bastioni aed (0)
Bastion. Not a street, but a garden/park named in 1989 for its proximity to the Tallinn defensive walls, and no longer a garden, but a terrace?... Located at ///fidget.slightly.below, which is not much help. In fact, you need to go through the current (2025) occupants of Viru värav 23, the Tai Boh restaurant, up the stairs, and through the back to discover a faux grass floor of outdoor dining. What lies beneath, we know not.
Bekkeri sadam
(Bekker, Böcker, Becker?...)
Bekker port, created by the elusive Härra Becker(?) of AS Bekker ja Ko., aka Böcker ja Ko. One of the 3 shipyards (see also Noblessneri and 3. liin) built following the disastrous Russian-Japanese war, initially for military reasons. Today a commercial port. Its slipway, built (1913 it seems) by the French Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand and no longer used, is believed to be the longest legacy slipway in the world.
