Terase (Teras)
Steel; figuratively, a knife. One of a metals street group. See Tina. Earliest records (1880) give a muddled bundle of German, Russian and Estonian names Tschortowstraße, Чортова / Чертова (Chortova / Chertova) and Tšortovi / Tschortovi, which all seem to indicate “devil’s street”, but was probably a misspelling of the name of an inn that had been there since the 18th C. Either way, street renamed in 1880 as Большая Епинатьевская ул. (Great Epinatiev street) after Russian businessman Алексей Дмитриевич Епинатьев, Alexei Dimitrivitch Epinatiev (1819-1878), founder of Gusli (a couple of hundred meters away as the balalaika sounds [so probably not heavy metal then], see Narva); family made hereditary honorary citizens for services to cultural education in 1872.