#Lomonossovi M. (Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, 1711-1765)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Russian #polymath, scientist, writer and poet, born in a #Pomor village close to #Kholmogory, about 60 km S of #Archangelsk and its now, sadly, dismantled 13-storey, 44-m high, reputedly world’s tallest wooden
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#Seegitagune Torn (0) #Monument
#Historical #Ajalooline
"Tower behind the almshouse". One of Tallinn’s former defensive towers, built 1450(ish), demolished 19th C. Located on the city side of the #Metskits statue, see #Kitseaed.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#CityWall #Linnamüür
#Anveldi J. (Jaan Anvelt, 1884-1937)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Also known as Eessaare Aadu, Jaan Holm, Jaan Hulmu, Kaarel Maatamees, Onkel Kaak and Н. Альтъ. #Estonian revolutionary, writer, leader of the #CommunistPartyOfEstonia, and one of the #ringleaders of the failed December_1_1924,
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#Velikije Luki (Velikije Luki)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Вели́киеЛу́ки, City in #PskovObl"ast, #Russia (about 150 km SE of SE #Estonia), where the #RedArmy wiped out a #German force of some 7000 in the #BattleOfVelikiyeLuki (1942-3). Also burial place of #Matrossovi A..
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#Matrossovi A. (Alexander Matveyevich Matrosov, 1924-1943)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Young lad, full of zeal, full of bullets. #Hero of the #SovietUnion, reported to have thrown himself in front of a #German machine-gun to allow his comrades to advance, but apparently dragged there
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#Vaestepatuste (Vaestepatused [pl.])
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Poor or #MiserableSinners. Sing. #Vaestepatune. Usually spelled and declined separately as Vaeste patuste (gen. pl.) from Vaene patune (nom. sing.). Most of the entry should be under its present-day name of #Hariduse. Bizarre.
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#Tehumardi (Tehumardi)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Village in southern #Saaremaa where a brutal battle between #Russians and #Germans was the beginning of the end of German presence on the island. Monument erected in 1967. Village first recorded in 1645 as #Theomarte after a farm based on two names:
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#Raamatukogu (Raamatukogu)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Library, public library, lit. book collection. #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-1989) of #Kiriku. While #raamat is a loan from old #Pskov and #Novgorod #Russian #гра́мота (gramota, book or writing-paper), borrowed from #Greek #γράμματα
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#Moskva (Moskva)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Moscow. Street existed in potentia since 1981, over which another street, #SaaremaaPuiestee was laid in 1986 and extended northwards to #Narva. In October 2024, for reasons purely related to street-naming conventions, the 250-m northern stretch of the
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#Reindorffi G. (Günther-Friedrich Reindorff, 1889-1974)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Estonian #typographer and graphic designer. In 2008, the Estonian State bank issued a 10-#krooni collector banknote (i.e. was desperate for cash) featuring an identical copy of the front of its pre-war granddaddy
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#Kingissepa V. (Viktor Kingissepp, 1888-1922)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Sinister-looking leader of the #EstonianCommunistParty, arrested by the #KAPO (#Kaitsepolitsei, ‘Secret’ or Security Police) on May 1st and executed for treason three days later. #Revenge was got during the 1941 War Tribunal
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#Vaprate (Vaprad [pl.])
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Brave/Gallant/Valiant lads/men, etc. After the 3 Communists and 1 farmer on whose land a shoot-out with police occurred on the night of 1924-12-4/5, after the failed coup d’état (see Vakmanni R.). all now subsumed under present-day #Vabaõhukooli.
#Tombi J. (Jaan Tomp, 1894-1924)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Communist who earned the unhappy distinction of being the only person sentenced to death in the 1924 #149Protsess (Trial of the 149, an attempt to smother burgeoning communism). Reincarnated nomino-nautically as an #Ecuadorian tanker.
#Oktoobri (Oktoober)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#October: a nice month... and a nice wide road for any number of tanks to thunder in from the east... Road steamrollered across #Lasnamäe under #Soviet influence as #OktoobriProspekt (parkway or avenue) in 1977, becoming #Laagna in 1992.
#Sovietisation
#Polgu (Polk)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Regiment (see #Pusta A.), a relatively muddled term as to its current meaning (grouping of brigades or battalions or battalion), and equally to #eesteestlased (#Estonians of yesteryear), spelling it #Rügemendi, #Rügementi (from the German #Regimentsstraße)
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#Rahvamaleva (Rahvamalev)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#VoluntaryPeoplesPatrol, #Soviet militia helpers. Job limited to low-level policing, corralling drunkards and so on, although a number of them worked on a more fundamental approach to policing by protecting citizens from bar-stool splinters.
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#Taagi (Taak)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Stay, as in forestay, mizzen stay, etc., synonym of #staak. See #Paagi and #Toodri.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Maritime #Merendus
#Infrastructure #Taristu
#Karbiküla (0)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Lit. ±‘boxville’, a former neighborhood squished between #Kopli, #Sitsi and #Sõle on plots upon which houses were required to occupy less than 20-25% of the area, resulting in their own particular style.
#TallinnHistory #TallinnaAjalugu
#Oki F. (Feodor Okk, 1898-1941)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#RussoEstonian #communist agent, a bit dodgy, to say the least. Expelled from #Estonia in 1938 but even the #USSR didn’t want him. For once not a #SovietOccupation (1979-1994) renaming (of Loitsu), they seem to have built it.
#Kommunist
#Leineri A. (Aleksander Leiner, 1902-1927)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Estonian #Communist “murdered (according to #Kivi who may well have been under 'influence' to present a particular political correctness) by the #bourgeois #EstonianSecurityPolice”. #SovietOccupation renaming (1940-91) of #Poska J.
#Rabtšinski I. (Ivan Vasilyevich Rabchinsky, 1879-1950)
#Historical #Ajalooline
One-time Chairman of the #MilitaryRevolutionaryCommittee and, later, editor of various #Estonian partisan papers. Name lives on on Russian cargo ship tramping the 7 seas. #SovietOccupation renaming (1964-90) of #Vabriku.
#Säde (Säde)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Spark, #Estonian translation of #Lenin’s (Oops, the #RussianSocialDemocraticWorkersParty’s) short-lived newspaper of that name, #И́скра (#Iskra). As the joke went: #Lenin called #Stalin and asked: “How do you like the latest Iskra?” – “Very nice paper,
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#Triigi N. (Nikolai Voldemar Triik, 1884-1940)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Talented artist, caricaturist, graphic designer and portraitist with an occasionally morbid bent. His 1929 self-portrait as disgruntled waiter serving up a pink inedible is probably symbolic. Born on #Niguliste.
#Maalikunstnik
#Rulcoviuse (Adolph Johann Rulcovius, 1796-1871)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Thus named (1885-1939) after owner of underlying land who split it upto create the now #Virmalise street network. The ‘Latin’ surname was poss. a #Linnaean class move to upgrade an ordinary #Russian surname, #Рульков (Rulkov).
#Suvorovi A. (Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, 1729-1800)
#Historical #Ajalooline
One of #Russia’s, and the world’s, finest generals: brilliant, charismatic, and a remarkable tactician. Never lost a battle, seriously wounded six times, more decorations than a Christmas tree, more titles than
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#Pusta A. (August Pusta, 1904-1971)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Colonel (#polkovnik, from #polk [#Rus. #полк], regiment [but also ‘crowd of girls’…], ultimately from #OldGerman *fulkaz, also giving rise to #AngloSaxon #folc [troop, detachment], Eng. #folk, and cognate with #Latin #pleb; nothing
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#Lenini (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 1870-1924)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, #Russian revolutionary, #Bolshevik, communist politician, owner of a 1916 #RollsRoyce #SilverGhost, and #graphomaniac (55 thick volumes of writings published, see #Säde). #SovietOccupation renaming
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#Kindral Fedjuninski (Ivan Fedyuninsky, 1900-1977)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Much-decorated #HeroOfYheSovietUnion, and #General (kindral) of the #2ndShockArmy at the 1944 #BattleOfNarva. #SovietOccupation renaming first (1978-1981) as Ivan Fedjuninski then Kindral Fedjuninski (1981-91) of #Paekaare.
#Tiivase A. (Alma Tiivas, 1893-1942)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Farmer’s daughter from #Rakvere, player in the #Estonian revolutionary movement, secretary of the #TallinnaTöölisteJaSõjaväelasteSaadikuteNõukogu (Tallinn Workers’ and War Orphans’ Government Delegation). Exiled to #Siberia but got as
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#Lauristini J. (Johannes Lauristin, 1899-1941)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Estonian politician and communist. Serial prisoner, forced labor twice: seven years (1923-1931) then six until the (probably) #KonstantinPäts amnesty of 1938. Died either during an evacuation or, some suggest,
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