Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

6 months ago

#Pikri (Pikker)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna
Also spelled #Piker, lit. the ‘long one’ (Slender Man?). #Mythological personification of thunder, aka #Pikne, etc., probably related to #Perkūnas of the Lithuanians (see #Pikse). Renamed (1979-1995) as #Pasternaki M. during the late #SovietOccupation).

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

8 months ago

#Pasternaki M. (Mikhail Fadeevich Pasternak, 1908-1941)
#DefunctPlacename #KadunudKohanimi
Captain of the 1941 operational group of the #DestructionBattalions or #ExterminationBattalions (Russian: #ИстребительныеБатальоны, Estonian: #Hävituspataljonid) formed from ‘local’ communists to fight
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