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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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Aegna (Aegna)

Claiming to be an avenue (puiestee) but more of a footpath running NNE-SSW through Priisle park from Läänemere to Linnamäe. For more details, see Aegna asum.

Akadeemia (Akadeemia)

Academy, after the Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia (ETA), or Estonian Academy of Sciences, of checkered history, and student accommodation. The ETA is now at Kohtu 6. Southern end of street half a kilometer north of Üliõpilaste.

Alasi (Alasi)

Anvil, or what used to be called a stithy, stiddy, stedy, etc.. Appropriately, crosses Vasara, but causing a rather mixed (separatist?...) political metaphor.

Alliksoo (Alliksoo) 

The ‘usual’ (older?) spelling is allikasoo, from genitive allikas:allika and soo. But allik:alliku also exists, so it could be either alliku dropping the ‘u’ or allika dropping the ‘a’, both for reasons of consonance or – like pottsepp and its alternative potisepp (see Ahju), combining two nominatives – from nominative allik. Since this is not listed in EKSS, while allikasoo is, it’s probably fair to assume a simple spelling or dialect variant of the same thing: ‘spring fen’ or ‘spring water bog’, in other words a water-rich marsh. This may be the source of the as yet unidentified(?) river which flowed N to Harku järv seen on some old maps (Charta öfver Staden Revel 1680; Waxelberg 1688; Holmberg 1689). Street with the following approximate lineage: Luha (?-1922), Soo (1922-1940), Kaisla (1940-1941), Soo again (1941-1991), and finally Alliksoo. On of a hydrology-themed sector, see Häilu. Both tee and põik.

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