Plasti (Plast)
Plastic. Named after the Salvo plastics company once located at Leningradi 81. Founded in Tallinn in 1948 as a cooperative-artel for disabled people, employing 15, it grew into one of Estonia’s largest companies. At its peak, its 1150-plus staff manufactured products ranging from bakelite utensils, dolls, board games, goggles and helmets, to skis and hockey pucks. Following Restoration of Independence, the company was gradually sold off and, in 2008, one year after the street’s naming, liquidated. Road planned to run (one day) from Peterburi to Punane.
Põdrakanepi (Põdrakanep)
Willowherb (lit. elk’s hemp), Epilobium. Some species, such as the small-flowered willowherb, E. parviflorum, is said to improve erectile dysfunction, although what improving a dysfunction means is not quite clear.
Põhja (Põhja)
North, northern, northerly. Also noord or nord among sailors. See Kirde. Formerly known as Troonipärija (or ‘heir apparent’, given the corresponding street-naming change around 1906, presumably the hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, born 1904). The ‘Ilmarine’ machine works was at no. 21. See also Põhjakaare.