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Turu tänav (Turg)
Market. After Keskturg, Tallinn’s central market, some 150 m to the east. Name used in three configurations: 1) tänav, whose residents were initially located by liival, kitsas tänavas, or ‘in a narrow street on the sand’, indicating the extent of Tallinn sands, here about 2 km from the shore, then by Salzmann-Dörptsche Straße (Saltzmann-Tartu road, 1825, after a local councillor), moving later to various herring-based names: Heringstraße (1865); Heeringi (1885); Heeringa (1908-1948) and even, at one stage, Подселедочная (Podseledochnaya, under the [sign of the] herring) which Kivi suggests was a herring store cum tavern. Turu is a loan word, ultimately from Old East Slavic *tъrgъ (tǔrgǔ) apparently via Russian (but hard to trace) to old Swedish, torgh>torg, and thence to Finnish tori and the Finnish town of Turku, the genitive of which is Turun (see Kauba). Anagram of Rutu. See also Turu põik and Turu plats.
Turu põik (Turg)
Market. See main article Turu tänav. Soviet occupation renaming (1954-1991) of Keldrimäe.
Turu plats (Turg)
Market. See main article Turu tänav. Oddly, not a square (in Nõmme) but a street nest to its market. Known as plain-old Turg in the 30s, then Turuplats until 1966.
Vilmsi J.
(Jüri Vilms, 1889-1918?)
Along with former President Konstantin Päts (1874-1956, no street named after him, although see Kentmanni) and Konstantin Konik (1873-1936), one of the three members of the ‘Rescue Committee’ which proclaimed Estonian independence on 24 February 1918, assumed executed in Helsinki by German Expeditionary Forces in April the same year. Renamed (1940-1991) as Tombi J. during the first Soviet Occupation. And known from 1885 on as Riesenkampffi plus permutations after alderman Diedrich Ferdinand Riesenkamff who took the Villa Fonne (later a chemist’s) on Narva mnt 50 (corner of Vilmsi) as summer residence in 1845.
