#Kadrioru (Kadriorg)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg
Catherine’s valley, see #Kadriorg. Both the #KaiserlichePark (Imperial Park) and one-time (KeiserlikPalee) (palace), aka chateau, aka manor, etc., now #KadriorgArtMuseum, part of #EestiKunstimuuseum (Estonian Art Museum), see #Mäekalda.

#Oru (Org)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg
#Valley. See #Kadrioru.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Geography #Geograafia
#Geology #Geoloogia
#Water #Vesi

#Koorti J. (Jaan Koort, 1883-1935)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna
#JugendstilSculptor, painter and ceramicist. Began studies at #Stieglitz school of art, #StPetersburg, then #Paris École des Beaux-Arts, influenced by #Bourdelle. Sculpture of him in #Kadrioru, near the palace, and by him in #Kitseaed.

One of a selection of doorways in Koidula, Tallinn, this one with brown and beige squares.

One of a selection of doorways in Koidula, Tallinn, this one grey painted wood, with cornucopia-type frieze on top.

One of a selection of doorways in Koidula, Tallinn, this one dark and foreboding, with the year 1912 inscribed on top.

One of a selection of doorways in Koidula, Tallinn, this one clearly more modern, glass-paneled with brass kicking-plates at the bottom.

(see #Kadrioru), mutating to #Tihvti in 1885, from #tihvt, a tack or pin, not impossibly due to its proximity to the ‘metals’ sector (see #Hõbeda). In 1907, however, while the #German camp translated it as #Stiftstr., with the Estonians, oddly, following suit a year later by switching to Stifti,
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Tallinn city streetsign with the streetname Jalgpalli (football) on it.

Underpass with grafitti beneath Pärnu maantee in Jalgpalli (football) street, Tallinn

Random alley with Soviet era lockups in Jalgpalli (football) street, Tallinn

Selection of spare wheels belonging to the enterprising young bicycle company, Vokitööd, in Jalgpalli (football) street, Tallinn.

#Jalgpalli (Jalgpall)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Despite a gentleman’s natural repugnance for the game, one must include it: football. Historically (1958-92), more of a footpath connecting #Mäekalda and #Vesivärava and running past the old ‘#Dünamo’, now #Kadrioru, stadium,
#Sports #Spordid
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#Kadri (Kadri)
Street in #Kadrioru park. Probably a diminutive of the honorable Tsarina, #Catherine_I of Russia, although Estonia used to have (still has?) an old tradition of #KadriksKäima (‘Katieing’ or ‘Catterning’): on Nov. 24th,
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg
#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur
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#Kadriorg (0)
Catherine’s valley. Being both the name of a Sub-district and a valley, sensu estoniano, this is in the nominative, but often referred to or conflated with #Kadrioru.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn
#ParksAndGardens #PargidJaAiad
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#Joa (Juga)
Waterfall, cascade. Referring to the 3.8-m high #Hundikuristiku cascade in #Kadrioru. Interesting anagram, a #joa (possibly related to #jõgi, see Jõe) is the sort of thing you might find at either end of an #Oja.
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad