• KESKLINN
• Vanalinn
• All-linn

20. Augusti (0)

Opened on 2011-08-20, commemorating the day in 1991 when the Republic of Estonia’s independence was decided and restored, now a national holiday: Taasiseseisvumispäev (Day of Restoration of Independence). Place-name (väljak), not street-name, covering essentially the same plot as Harjumägi, and not easy to tease the two apart (this is the superstructure on top of the hill). NB: not to be confused with Independence Day (Eesti Vabariigi aastapäev or Eesti iseseisvuspäev), which was 1918-02-24.

• LASNAMÄE
• HISTORICAL
• Pae
• Deadname

1. Tehase (1. Tehas)

Tehas is a works or factory, and Tallinn had a number of streets called this, five of them – 1. Tehase ... 5. Tehase – in Pae and eliminated in 1984 (and not, as mistakenly stated in the first edition “scuppered by the building of Admiraliteedi bassein”, which is almost 5 km away). KNAB does not record a 6. Tehase but does list 7. Tehase sadam, this renamed as Noblessneri sadam. Likewise, the one-time Tehase tänav is now called Naaritsa. The present entry also presages the protean orthography of Tallinn toponymy: whereas the previous entry, 1. liin, must be writ in lower-case, this one was capitalized. It gets worse, see Patriarh Aleksius II.

NB: for those who don’t read introductions, forget fast or need constant reminders: headwords of street names no longer in existence, mainly former Soviet namings, are struck through.

• PÕHJA-TALLINN
• Kopli

2. liin (0)

2nd line. Like 1. liin, two parallel thoroughfares. All 5 liinid were named or renamed in 1951 (quick Estonian grammar lesson: most plurals tack a -d onto the genitive, so where liin is the nominative and liini is the genitive, the plural becomes liinid).