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Poska J.
(Jaan Poska, 1866-1920)
Mayor of Tallinn 1913-1917. Main signatory to the Treaty of Tartu on 02/02/1920 between Estonia and the Russian SFSR or Soviet Federative Socialist Republic recognizing Estonia de jure, the latter party relinquishing, Art. 2, “for ever all rights of sovereignty formerly held by Russia over the Esthonian people and territory...” (sic). Street known as Liiva (1885-1921) along with its Ger. and Rus. equivalents Sandstraße (from 1838) and Песочная (from 1907), then Leineri A. (1940-1991) during the Soviet occupation.
Nafta (Nafta)
Mineral oil, petroleum, naphtha. Part of an oil street-name group. See also Petrooleumi. Street named in 1933, 2nd year of the great Soviet famine, sinkhole of soviet aspirations.
Leineri A.
(Aleksander Leiner, 1902-1927)
Estonian Communist “murdered by the bourgeois Estonian Security Police” according to Kivi who may well have been under a certain Damocletian influence to present a particular political correctness of thought. Soviet occupation renaming (1940-1991) of Poska J.
Lumiste J.
(Johannes Lumiste, dates unknown)
Red Army lieutenant whose claim to fame seems to be his having removed, in 1944, the black swastika on its white background from a Nazi flag and climbing to the top of Pikk Hermann to hoist the resulting red flutter of freedom for all to admire. Soviet occupation renaming (1979-1995) of Varraku.
