1. liin (0)

1st line. Streets 1. liin to 5. liin are calqued on the ‘Lines’ of Saint Petersburg’s Vasilyevsky Island, where each one was originally the line of houses either side of a canal (later filled in). Tallinn’s 1. Liin today is in a sorry state: an abandoned wasteland of burned-out houses, shipping containers and a sense of desolation. But take heart, like its more thoroughbred thoroughfares, it will be redeveloped. As a reminder on the Estonian concept of street (see Introduction), 1. liin is actually two streets parallel to each other, although ‘streets’ is stretching things a bit too.

Also, as another reminder, if the street name is already in the nominative (rare), its usual place in brackets is left as ‘0’.