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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 1750 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

Matka

Matka (Matk)

Tour, hike, often specified accordingly: jalgsimatk, (walking-tour, jalgsi = by foot), jalgrattamatk (bicycle tour), etc. Compare Finnish matka (stretch of) road.

Matrossovi A.

Matrossovi A. (Alexander Matveyevich Matrosov, 1924-1943)

Young lad, full of zeal, full of bullets. Hero of the Soviet Union, reported to have thrown himself in front of a German machine-gun bunker to allow his comrades to advance, but apparently dragged there (or out of the way) by German soldiers, and the date switched for propaganda purposes (See M. J. Broekmeyer: Stalin, the Russians, and Their War). Soviet occupation renaming (1950-1990) of Tondi. Matrosov had various places named after him: a small town in Kaliningrad formerly known as Gilija after its river (from the Prussian gilus [deep], but cf. gilùs, ditto, in Lith.), possibly a 2-street village (Pop. 179) in the Republic of Bashkortostan, and perhaps an air base on Sakhalin Island. It seems that Alex was a rather unfortunate orphan and pawn in most everyone’s lives.

Mayeri

Mayeri (Carl August Mayer, 1789-1871?)

Businessman and burgomeister (1860-1864) responsible for converting Harjumägi into a green area in the 1860s. Nearby steps (trepp) named after him. See Patkuli.

  1. Meeliku
  2. Meeruse
  3. Meeta
  4. Mehaanika

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