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Work in progress

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, a couple of entries still pending, no photos with the streets yet, layout not finalized...

This started with a book (last few pages under review) and so far 1889 of the 1891 articles entered, 1 or 2 links may 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!

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Staapli (Staapel)

Usually HQ, military ‘staff’, but here, near the docks, slipway.

Sügise (Sügis)

Autumn, fall. Herbststraße in 1942. See also Talve. First known as Söreni (1885) German Sörenstraße (1893) then Sörensenstraße (1913), etc., after a gardener called Sören Thorenfeld who bought land between this street, Paldiski and Suve in 1810 and created a nursery. See also Šnelli tiik.

Sügislase (Sügislane)

Lit. Autumn-dweller, the Autumn silkworm moth, Lemonia dumi, rare in Estonia, although a bit more common on the western coastline. Before the street was built, this was the name the original land-owner wanted. The street-names commission, following guidelines, proposed the historical toponym of Potissepa (potter) after the name of the farm originally on the site: rejected. They then proposed a list of other butterfly names already reserved for the zone: rejected too. So the street-names commission is not always to blame ;o). Part of a lepidopteran group. See also Täpiku.

Suislepa (Suislepp)

Apple cultivar presumed originating on the Uue-Suislepa estate in Viljandimaa. One of the Mähe flower-name group, see Tolmuka.

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