Kullmani L.
(Leen Kullman, 1920-1943?)
Real name: Helene Kullman, Soviet spy trained at Leningrad spy school, Hero of the Soviet Union, arrested by Germans and died (heroically) under torture. Or, by the time the Soviets had committed themselves to honouring her, they discovered she’d done nothing of the sort – simply switching sides and living to die another day under the Nazi informant protection scheme – but couldn’t back down. Soviet era renaming (1979-1994/5) of Anni.
Sossimäe (Sossimägi)
Intriguing! Firstly, it seems this is a ‘legacy name’, i.e. one that locals are familiar with, but dates, confirmation and origin myths are all missing. The plot development company chose the name, unwisely perhaps given its primary meaning of duffer, dud, clown or joker, inept or weak-willed person (someone a Brit might call a ‘tosser’!) or all or any of the other names I’ve had suggested: wimp, crackpot, stumblebum, maladroit, dud, etc., and a soss-sepp (see Sepa) could be a bodger, bungler or jerry-builder (from the marketing perspective, think Sipelga). The word could also be an onomatopœia conveying a hissing sound, or something steamy, both of which could correspond to the noise made by the former paper-mills’ chimneys; for some, it’s also synonymous with toss, or fizzling out (related to sosima, to whisper); and, lastly, possibly, poor-quality sandy loam. Street delineation still ill-defined and still (2025) being built around the back of Fahle kvartal, whose nightclub is also called Sossi.
Karjametsa (Karjamets)
Cattle woods.Road pending development.
Balti Jaam (0) 
Baltic Station. Not a street, but Tallinn’s main railway station. Odd… While Estonia borrowed Vaksal from Russian which borrowed it from English Vauxhall which borrowed and inversed it from Anglo-Norman la Sale Faukes, (cf. Vaksali), they also borrowed jaam (ям) from the 13-18th-C postal stations providing horses and accommodation in what is now Russia, which had already borrowed it from a Turkic language, poss. Tatar ям (yam) < дзям (dzyam, road), or similar in Uyghur or Chagatai meaning ‘post-station or ‑horses’, which borrowed it from a Mongolian word for ministry or office, but who themselves used Өртөө (Örtöö, checkpoint) for the message relay system originally established by Ögedei Khan (1186-1241). A number of former Russian Empire towns or districts originated thus and are accordingly prefixed by ‘Ям’, the various Ямская слобода (Yamskaya sloboda, see Vana Slobodaa), and others (see Kingissepa V.) for example. Not all though: what used to be Сіверськ (Siversk) in Ukraine, destroyed by Russia in 2022, used also to be Яма (Yama), but named after the river, meaning ‘pit’ due to its depth. Starting-point of, inter alia, the Tallinn-Pärnu and Tallinn-Viljandi railway lines.
