Kangru (Kangur)
Weaver, named after nearby textile plant initially called Balti Puuvillavabrik (wool factory) (1898-1941). Underwent major destruction in WWII but phoenixed out and awarded the Order of the October Revolution in 1976 so there’s that… From ’41, there followed a series of name changes involving (or not) ‘Balti Manufaktuur’ until 1995, when acquired (?) and renamed as Baltex 2000 until its closure and loss of several hundred jobs in 2006. See Manufaktuuri, Ketraja and Sitsi. Another translation is ‘heap of granite’. Although the ‘heap of granite’ belies yet another reality. A kangur is also a Bronze age (8-7th-C BCE) burial ground, stone barrow or cairn-grave, where the dead were laid, head facing north, eyes towards the sun. There is a large site in Jõelähtme at ///disavows.fleshes.troll, some 20 km east of Tallinn town center. Estonia has five villages called Kangru.