Petrooleumi (Petrooleum)
Petroleum. Street created/named around 1904 after the Nobel Brothers’ petroleum depot. Albert did not make all his money from dynamite and gelignite, far from it: he and his brothers Ludvig (and later his son Emanuel) and Robert were among the world’s leading oil barons, with some 50% of global oil production coming from their company Branobel in Baku, Azerbaijan. Formerly known as Kerosini or Kerossini, part of an oil street-name group. See Bensiini. One-time location of Tallinn’s main station for trains to the south: Felliner Bahnhof II aka Willjandi Waksal II aka Reval-Hafenbahnhof aka Tallinn-Sadama raudteejaam. See Tallinn-Türi.
Lõvi (Lõvi)
Lion, symbol of local Pioneeride battalion.
Noorkuu (Noorkuu)
New (lit. young) moon. As in many languages, there’s a touch of confusion as to when a moon starts and ends, is ‘old’ or ‘new’... Here, in the northern hemisphere, named for the western arc of the two semi-circular moon streets, best translated as waxing crescent (see Vanakuu).