Kitsarööpa (Kitsarööbas)
Narrow-gauge railway line (see Kitsas and Roopa). Back in the day, due to lower costs, narrow-gauge lines were laid for industry or relatively low passenger needs. The first one was not in Tallinn, but serviced the Kunda cement works, some 100 km to the E. At 750 mm, almost half the width of the 1435-mm standard-gauge lines, costs were significantly lower, as were speeds: the maximum authorised being 25 versts / hr (see Versta). Here, the street-name refers to the line servicing Peter the Great’s Naval Fortress (Merekindlus, see Vabaduse puiestee) with a 9-km-odd foot- and bicycle-path, starting (approx.) at Kõrgepinge and winding more or less S (oddly, unnamed) for about 3 km to Tähetorni then (named), E to the junction of Vääna & Pärnu where the Nõmme-Väike, aka Nõmme-Kindlus, station used to be, then N and E ‘along’ the former narrow-gauge track towards Rahumäe station, another one-time narrow-gauge hub, continuing E and maybe merging with Kurni and Orava before ending at the Liivametsa/Kalmistu Junction some 50 m from Liiva station, yet another one-time narrow-gauge hub.
Kitzbergi A.
(August Kitzberg, 1855-1927)
Author and playwright. Romantic to realist writer of short stories and, by which he’s better known, plays such as Libahunt (Werewolf. Liba looks suspiciously like a modification of libe, meaning slippery, slick, unreliable, etc., with negative connotations: e.g. libedad sõnad translates to weasel words; and misogynist cognates: lita, libu, lits, bitch, prostitute, slut, etc. Not surprisingly, werewolves in Estonian folklore tended to be women (while English werewolf is from old English wer [man, male person, from PIE *wi-ro-, man] + wulf, but see Viru tänav), and Kauka jumal (God/Lord of the Purse [but see Börsi]). Knowing Kitzberg to be a committed anti-drinker, playwright Oskar Luts (see Kevade) kept a bottle of whisky in a sculpture of his head. In 2005, the post office gave him a sesquicentennial first-day cover. Kitzberg lived at Posti 23, Viljandi, in 1893-1894, so they probably owed him one.
Kivikülvi (Kivikülv)
Blockfield, aka felsenmeer (lit. rock sea), boulder field or stone field. An area of land or sea covered by boulders or large rocks, thought to be the result of frost weathering. True to form, Veskimetsa kivikülv is about 600 m NW at ///cobble.status.hope. For other erratic-themed locations, see Kivila.