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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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Mootori (Mootor)

Motor, after the electric motors manufactured in a former Volta factory. New street, along with Krulli and Uus-Volta, in the 2021 Kruuli kvartal development. The alternative naming proposal of Magneti was rejected. Not attractive enough (sorry)…

Uus-Volta (Uus Volta)

New street, along with Mootori and Krulli, , in the 2021 Kruuli kvartal development. See Volta. 

Krulli (Krulli)

New street, 2021, along with Mootori and Uus-Volta. Named ultimately after Franz Krull, a German coppersmith who founded a company in Narva in 1865 manufacturing distillation equipment, particularly vodka. Moving to Tallinn, production expanded to boilers, cisterns, locomotives and refrigeration equipment. Following a varied career in Communist, German, bankers’ and a thieving brother-in-law’s hands, it became the Tallinna Masinatehas (machine-works) in 2018 and, torn between boilers and refrigeration, opted for heat exchangers.

Bekkeri sadam

(Bekker, Böcker, Becker?...)

Bekker port, created by the elusive Härra Becker(?) of AS Bekker ja Ko., aka Böcker ja Ko. One of the 3 shipyards (see also Noblessneri and 3. liin) built following the disastrous Russian-Japanese war, initially for military reasons. Today a commercial port. Its slipway, built (1913 it seems) by the French Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand and no longer used, is believed to be the longest legacy slipway in the world.

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