View of footpath and/or cyclepath along Sõle showing the abundant greenery on both sides of the path.

Small, slightly-old apartment housing set back from the main road in Sõle, Tallinn.

Large, grey, 4-story apartment block on Sõle, Tallinn. The block seems to consist in maybe 24 apartments accessed through 3 main doors, in front of the building are 3 spindly-looking evergreen trees

Longitudinal view of Sõle road, showing its 6 lane and general breadth.

#Sõle (Sõlg)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn #Pelguranna #Sitsi
Brooch, pin, ouch (not an onomatopoeic consequence of mishandling, ‘ouch’ is derived from French, nouche, the socket of a
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#Tuulemaa (Tuulemaa)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
Land of wind. Also collection of poetry written by #GustavSuits (1883-1956) in 1913 where he thus portrays #Estonia, literally and metaphorically. Renamed under The #SovietOccupation, along with #Vihuri (1953-1995), as #Belinski V.

#Madala (Madal)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
#Shoal, #shallow. Renamed (1963-1995) as #Nekrassovi N. during the #SovietOccupation.

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

#Kangru (Kangur)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
#Weaver, named after nearby textile plant initially called #BaltiPuuvillavabrik (wool factory) (1898-1941). Underwent major destruction in #WWII but phoenixed out and awarded the #OrderOfTheOctoberRevolution in 1976 so there’s that…
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#Vihuri (Vihur)
#PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
#Whirlwind. Renamed under The #SovietOccupation along with #Tuulemaa [1953?-1995] as #Belinski V.. Oddly, the streets join the same road, #Kari, but don’t actually meet. Perhaps the wind and lack of connections merited its association with a lit. crit.?...

#Kolde (Kolle)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelgulinn #Merimetsa #Pelguranna
#Hearth, fireplace, grate. Named after nearby housing scheme #kooperatiivehitusühing (cooperative building union), ‘#OmaKolle’, a sort of ‘Home Sweet Home’ (lit. my (one’s) own home/hearth).
#Communism #Kommunism

#Herzeni A. (Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, 1812-1870)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
#Russian philosopher and writer, known as the “father of Russian socialism”. #SovietOccupation renaming (1953-1995) of #Puhangu.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Desovietisation #Desovetiseerimine

Nekrassovi N. (Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov, 1821-1878)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
#Russian #poet, #writer and #critic. First editor of #Dostoievsky. #Publisher of literary magazine #Sovremennik (The Contemporary, founded by #Pushkin) from 1846 until 1866, publishing #Turgenev, #Tolstoy,1/2

#Ketraja (Ketraja)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
Spinner, after those working at #BaltiManufaktuur (see #Manufaktuuri and #Kangru). But also, for those fascinated with the truly trivial or relatively irrelevant, a dialectical name for #öösorr, the #EuropeanNightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus.

#Kalinini M. (Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, 1875-1946)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja #Karjamaa #Sitsi #Paljassaare #Pelguranna #Kopli#Bolshevik revolutionary and head of state of the #SovietUnion from 1919 to 1946,
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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Randla (Randla)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna
A proper noun designating a place by the #beach, as indeed it is. Renamed (1953-1995) as #Tšaikovski P. during the #SovietOccupation.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Leisure #VabaAeg
#Sand #Liiv

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Lõime.

View along Lõime, Tallinn, from the Sõle direction.

Tre-lined leafy avenue in the middle of Lõime, Tallinn, in the Sõle to Pelguranna section.

For mid-20th-century Soviet housing, someone went to a fair bit of trouble to add the Grecian-style urns and statuettes;

#Lõime (Lõim)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna #Sitsi
Warp (of fabric). (Also the annual ring of a tree.) Anagram of Õilme. One of a textile raw materials street group. See also Niidi.
#Industry #Tööstus
#Technology #Tehnoloogia

#Pelguranna (Pelgurand) #Asum
Shore of refuge, safe haven (see previous entry). Street and Sub-district named after the beach of this name (popularly known as #Stroomi rand).
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Pelguranna #Kopli
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad