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everyone’s best friend (always there at the last): the #GrimReaper.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
#Death #Surm
#Disease #Haigus
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#Rahumäe (Rahumägi) #Asum
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe
Quiet hill. A pleasant way of saying #cemetery. The Rahumäe #hiidrahn (erratic boulder) is about half a kilometer east at ///moats.riots.backers.
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Overview of the Kalev Stadium (Kalevi staadioni) in Staadioni, Tallinn, facing north.

Overview of the Kalev Stadium (Kalevi staadioni) in Staadioni, Tallinn, facing north.

View of the western straight of the Kalev Stadium (Kalevi staadioni) in Staadioni, Tallinn, with young people training.

View of the western straight of the Kalev Stadium (Kalevi staadioni) in Staadioni, Tallinn, with young people training.

Statue of Aleksander Tšikin (1915-2006), much loved track and field athlete and coach, in the Kalev Stadium (Kalevi staadioni) in Staadioni, Tallinn.

Statue of Aleksander Tšikin (1915-2006), much loved track and field athlete and coach, in the Kalev Stadium (Kalevi staadioni) in Staadioni, Tallinn.

View up the stairs to the tribune in the Kalev Stadium (Kalevi staadioni) in Staadioni, Tallinn.

View up the stairs to the tribune in the Kalev Stadium (Kalevi staadioni) in Staadioni, Tallinn.

#UusKirikuaia (new churchyard, 1923-1936), #Friedhofstraße (graveyard street, 1942) then Kalmistu again (1938-1955) after the #SiselinnaKalmistu close to #Toonela.
#Sport #Spordid
#Health #Tervis
#Death #Surm
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Hard to say, but tree perhaps at the center of Poolamägi.

Hard to say, but tree perhaps at the center of Poolamägi.

Steps between the Tallinn Sports Arena
(Tallinna Kergejõustikuhall) and Kalev Tennis Club, leading to Poolamägi.

Steps between the Tallinn Sports Arena (Tallinna Kergejõustikuhall) and Kalev Tennis Club, leading to Poolamägi.

Greenery in Tallinn's Poolamägi.

Greenery in Tallinn's Poolamägi.

Memorial stone (mälestusmärk) in Poolamägi, Tallinn. If anyone can translate, please do!

Memorial stone (mälestusmärk) in Poolamägi, Tallinn. If anyone can translate, please do!

#Poolamägi (Poolamäe)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Juhkentali
Polish hill, site of former Peter and Paul #Catholic #cemetery, whose name caught on due to the number of locals of #Polish nationality.
#Death #Surm
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
#NonStreet #MitteTänav
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#Liivakalmistu (Liivakalmistu)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Männiku #Liiva #Raudalu
Former (1966) streetname of #Liiva, named after the #LiivaKalmistu, or Liiva Cemetery, largest cemetery in Tallinn, created along with its chapel and memorial to the victims of the Red Terror in 1935,
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
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Further west was an old #Jewish cemetery in the fork at the southern end of #Magasini and, lastly, NW is the location of the former #Catholic cemetery, due W of a street once known as #Surnuaia with all its attendant variations that you can read about here: #Staadioni.
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statue of the #SovietSoldier died fighting in #Estonia. SW of that there used to be (all dates unchecked) a #MuslimCemetery, with the rather inept #German designation of #MohamedKirchhof, or #MohammedanChurchyard.
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Clockwise (sorta) from #Toonela there are: #SiselinnaKalmistu, the city (lit. ‘within-the-city’) cemetery, divided into #AleksanderNevski (W) and #Kaarli (E) cemeteries, due S is the #Kaitseväe (Defence Forces) cemetery with its Pronkssõdur (bronze soldier)
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on the other hand, #HiiuRahu #kalmistu (cemetery), a place of quiet, tranquility if ever there was one, is just across the track. Then again, the equally possible translation of shingle, gravel, rubble or scree (rahk [4]) seems appropriate too and,
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followed by #UusKirikuaia (new churchyard, 1923-1936), Friedhofstraße (graveyard street, 1942) then "Kalmistu again (1938-1955) after the #SiselinnaKalmistu close to #Toonela.
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
#Death #Surm
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