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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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Adolf Hitleri

(Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945)

Used to name both Raekoja and various stretches of Narva mnt from 1941-1944. Didn’t really catch on...

Anveldi J.

(Jaan Anvelt, 1884-1937)

Also known as Eessaare Aadu, Jaan Holm, Jaan Hulmu, Kaarel Maatamees, Onkel Kaak and Н. Альтъ. Estonian revolutionary, writer, leader of the Communist Party of Estonia, Premier of Soviet Estonia, died as a result of persuasive cross-examination in 1937 but blessed to be redeemed as a “good communist” by Khrushchev. One of the rare Estonian communists to have a Wikipedia page devoted to him in Tamil, see ஜான் ஆன்வெல்ட், and if you don’t find that writing beautiful you have no soul. Soviet era renaming (1957-1991) of Kivisilla and Reimani V.

Gagarini J.

(Juri Gagarin, 1934-1968)

First man in space (1961-04-12). A contributing factor to his cosmonauticality was a spaceship-friendly height of 5 ft 2, or 1.57 meters. Said to have withstood about 8-10 g on re-entry. Soviet occupation renaming (1961-1989) of Toompuiestee.

Kalinini M.

(Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, 1875-1946)

Bolshevik revolutionary and head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946, one-time lathe-operator at the Volta electrotechnical factory, and full-time yes-man to Stalin. Married to Estonian Jekaterina Lorberg (Katarina Loоrberg?), later discovered to be a “counterrevolutionary Trotskyite” (she did ‘confess’ in 1938, and was released from camp by special decree in 1945). The former Kalinin District of Tallinn covered roughly those of Põhja-Tallinn and Haabersti. The questionably-legitimate Russian exclave of Kaliningrad/Königsberg is also named after him, for now… Soviet occupation renaming (1950-1990) of Kopli.

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