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Rahu tee (Rahu)
There are two streets called Rahu: tänav and tee (see Rahu tänav), this is in Lasnamäe, an intended prospekt, or tree-lined avenue (influenced by St Petersburg’s Nevski Prospekt), planned by shiny Soviet propagoptimism to run parallel to then Oktobri prospekt, now Laagna tee), reduced to a housing-estate’s service road, with much of the original track hiding in the bushes.
Rakise (Rakis)
Appliance, apparatus, device. Possibly part of a loose construction-materials group. Looks like a private alley or service road beside a factory or warehouse. See Armatuuri.
Randla (Randla)
A proper noun designating a place by the beach, as indeed it is. Renamed (1953-1995) as Tšaikovski P. during the Soviet occupation.
Rändrahnu (Rändrahn)
Erratic boulder, aka glacial erratic, aka erratic, and known by various names in Estonian too: hiidrahn (giant rock), rändkivi (shorestone, beachstone), suurkivi (big stone), etc. Street named after the numerous erratics on the Pirita shoreline. The largest erratic boulder in Estonia is the Ehalkivi (twilight rock, see Eha) in the sea at Letipea (///scenes.milling.escapes). It has a volume of 930 m3 and weighs 2500 tonnes, but it’s in the water so easier to lift. Said to owe its name to its size concealing the setting sun. The German name for these boulders is Findling (foundling – understandable). For other erratic-themed locations, see Suurekivi.
