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 Era renaming (1950-1990) of Kopli.