Long stretch of railway sleepers stacked 9-high alongside the tracks at Tallinn-Väike station, Tallinn.

Front façade of Tallinn-Väike station, Tallinn. The building is 2 storeys high, and built with rustic limestone and has gabled turrets.

View of Tallinn-Väike station, Tallinn, from the platform and tracks. This side of the building is plainer, a relatively homogeneous façade.

Old tower belonging to the Tallinn-Väike station, Tallinn. Described as a water-tower, the various windows suggest it may have served another function, unless they were installed after the age of steam.

#Tallinn-Väike (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Formerly known as #TallinnaPeajaam (Tallinn Main Station) and interconnecting hub between the narrow- and broad-gauge lines (see #Kitsarööpa)...
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#Le Coq A. (Albert Le Coq, dates unknown)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Not a street: A. #LeCoqArena or #LillekülaStadium, after a certain #Belgian, #AlbertLeCoq, of very misty history... Said to be descended from #FrenchHuguenots fleeing #France in the 17th century, yet reported too to have
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#Viljandi (Viljandi)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Kesklinn #Liiva #Kitseküla #Raudalu
Town in southern #Estonia first mentioned in 1283, although hill-fort mentioned by #AlIdrisi in 1154. Formerly known as #Fellinn, or #Velyad or #Velnevik. Major fortification of the #Hanseatic #LivonianOrder, today home to
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#Kullamaa (Kullamaa)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Lit. gold or gold-bearing land, ‘Eldorado’, maybe? One-time cul-de-sac off the #Kitseküla end (i.e. NE) of #Tondi, but once seen elsewhere as a street running through the old #CharlottentaliTikumanufaktuur (see #Charlottentali), the #SovietUnion’s
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#Kitseküla (Kitseküla): #Asum
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Lit. Goat’s village or goatsville Said to be named after the area being a former pasture for goats. Now, I’m sorry and all that, and not trying to be a party-pooper, but didn’t the celebrated old 750-mm #kitsarööpmeline (narrow-gauge)
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#Kiisa (Kiisk)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Eurasian Ruffe, Gymnocephalus cernuus, member of the #perch family. TT puts this in the #RaudteejaamadeNimelisteTänavatePiirkonnas or, for those who still haven’t learned the language despite its obvious simplicity, railway-station street district
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Hallivanamehe.

Hallivanamehe (Hallivanamees)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla

Note: to celebrate my 1000th post here on Tallinn street names, I shall allow my inner windbag an even more verbose post than usual. Grab a coffee and read on 😁

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#ProveMeWrong 😈
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Keava.

View along Keava, Tallinn, in the NNE direction towards Kauba.

Modern apartment block in Keava, Tallinn.

Not very modern industrial building in Keava, Tallinn.

#Keava (Keava)
#Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Hamlet close to #Kehtna in #Raplamaa, street appropriately located at the end of #Rapla. After the station on the #Tallinn-Türi railway group itself after a 15th-C (or very much earlier, sources uncertain) manor known as Kedenpäh, Kedempe, etc. (see also #Kiisa).

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kohila.

View along Kohila, Tallinn, from the Pärnu maantee direction.

Police and Border Guard Board (Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet) in Kohila, Tallinn.

View along Kohila, Tallinn, in the Pärnu maantee direction.

#Kohila (Kohila)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Town and manor house (see #Mõisa) in #Harjumaa. Latter first mentioned 1438 under the #German name of #Koil, listed in the 1241 #LiberCensusDaniae as Koil or #Koylae.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Karamelli.

View along Karamelli, Tallinn, towards a local Honda dealership.

Multistorey-carpark View in Karamelli, Tallinn.

Future high-rise or other industrial building in Karamelli, Tallinn.

#Karamelli (Karamell)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Caramel, after the former Kalev chocolate factory nearby. Building continues...
#Food #Toit
#Commerce #Kaubandus
#Industry #Tööstus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Juurdeveo.

View along Juurdeveo, Tallinn, from the Pärnu maantee end in the direction of Tallinn-Väike station.

Footpath/cyclepath in Juurdeveo, Tallinn, in the direction of Pärnu maantee.

View of Tallinn-Väike station at the SE end of Juurdeveo, Tallinn.

#Juurdeveo (Juurdevedu)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Conveyance, transport, supply. Street leads to the Tallinn-Väike station. Many of Estonia’s domestic railway lines, e.g. Tallinn to Viljandi and Pärnu, etc., used to be narrow-gauge.
#Railways #Raudteed
#Engineering #Tehnika
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Lelle, with street number and flagholder.

View along Lelle, Tallinn, in the WSW direction.

View along Lelle footpath, Tallinn, in the WSW direction.

View along Lelle, Tallinn, with rear of Piima in the background.

#Lelle (Lelle)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Station on the #Tallinn-Türi #narrow-gauge railway line (see also #Rapla). After the manor house of #LelleNicolasßon (unusual triple ‘s’ there: the #German ‘#Sharfes_S’, or sharp S, aka #Eszett (lit. S-Z) was a #ligature or joining-together of
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Käru.

View along Käru, Tallinn, in the direction of god knows where. With buildings named with two other streets, It's hard to be sure of anything...

Building in a street in Tallinn named Käru, but whose address is Saku...

Building in a street in Tallinn named Käru, but whose address is Türi.

#Käru (Käru)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Named after the station on the #Tallinn-Türi #narrow-gauge railway line group (see also #Lelle). Also means barrow or pushcart.
#Railways #Raudteed
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

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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#Kauba (Kaup)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Goods, wares, merchandise. Germanic loanword, German Kauf or Swedish köp. Same proto-Germanic root *kaupa- gives Finnish kaupunki (city) from medieval Swed. köping (market place), cognate of Denmark’s
TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Saku (Sakk)
1) Tree stump (cf. Sagari); 2) Wisp of straw; 3) Bunch/Cluster of fruit or nuts; 4) Archaic term for bag [curiously, #EKSS gives sakk:saki, and both this and its commoner word, kott:kotti, are loans from #German:
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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Suitsupääsuse (Suitsupääsuke)
Barn swallow, Hirundo rustica, Estonia’s national bird and, until 2024, narry a street, avenue nor cul-de-sac in sight.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Kitseküla #Varsaallika
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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#Asula (Asula)
Dwelling, settlement, urban community, any populated place. Lit. place of settlement, related to the verb asuma, to settle (or, in Olonets Karelian, azuo, to prepare or have offspring) and hence asum. But see #Hiiela.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
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#Tammsaare A.H. (Anton Hansen Tammsaare, 1878-1940)
One of the best-known #Estonian novelists, author of the 5-volume masterpiece, #TõdeJaÕigus (Truth and Justice, 1926-1933)
#Tallinn #Mustamäe #Kristiine #Kesklinn #Kadaka #Sääse #Siili #Tondi #Järve #Kitseküla
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#Marta (Marta)
Martha, woman’s name. Given its crossing #Magdaleena tänav and one-time name of Magdaleena põik (-1933?), presumably St Martha, sister of #Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, the lady to whom #JC is reputed to have said...
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
#Religion #Religioon
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#Madli (Madli/Madel/Madle/etc.)
Name chosen to create a woman’s name group, this one, like Maud in English, being a diminutive of Magdaleena, qv, and I’m sure the fact that Tallinn Deputy Mayor’s first name is Madle has absolutely nothing to do with this.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
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#Türi (Türi)
Town in #Järvamaa. Street running parallel to the railway track at #TallinnVäike, after the station on the #TallinnTüri narrow-gauge railway group (see also #Hagudi).
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
#Railways #Raudteed

#Reketi (Reket)
Racquet, racket. From a former nearby ski and racket factory.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
#Industry #Tööstus
#Sport #Spordid

#Rapla (Rapla)
County town of #Raplamaa, 48 km south of #Tallinn. Named after the corresponding station on the Tallinn-Türi narrow-gauge railway line group (see also #Saku).
#Kesklinn #Kitseküla
#Railways #Raudteed

#Paide (Paide)
Town in #Järvemaa, south-east of #Tallinn. Known as Tsemendi / Zementstraße / Цементная ул. from 1913ish to 1939.
#Kesklinn #Kitseküla
#BuildingMaterials #Ehitusaterjalid
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names

#Vaari (Vaar)
Grandfather, old man. The expression Vaar ja moor (see #Moora) suggests it comes from #Swedish where far and mor mean father and mother. Street, interestingly, named for being on the wrong side of the track to #Hallivanamehe. See #Äia.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
#ElaguVanadMehed!

#Ilmarise (Ilmarine)
Mythological gentleman: god of fire, weather (ilm) and smithing (its multiple meanings also reflect its age, Ilm is a word linguists believe they can track back some 5000-6000 years in Finno-Ugric, and, almost invariably,
#Kitseküla
#FinnoUgricLanguage #SoomeUgriKeel
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#Piima (Piim)
Milk, after local dairy-processing plant. Street still (2025) being built.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
#Streetnames #Tänavanimed

#Magdaleena (Magdaleena)
Magdalene, after the former #Magdalenium, or Magdalenium und Trinkerinnen Asyl, Magdalene and #Asylum for #InebriateWomen which, of course, were non-existent during #Soviet times, so temporarily re-labeled (1950-1991) as #Lasteaia.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
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#Meeta (Meeta/Meta)
Name chosen to create a woman’s name group, this one being a diminutive of #Margareta. #Margaret of #Antioch would have been a good candidate, one of the #Catholic church’s “Fourteen Holy Helpers” called upon to prevent diseases.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
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