Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Petrooleumi.

View along Petrooleumi, Tallinn, in the direction of Narva maantee from Tuukri.

Methodist church on the corner of View along Narva maantee and Petrooleumi, Tallinn.

Cycle path leading to Petrooleumi, Tallinn, from the Reidi direction.

#Petrooleumi (Petrooleum)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama #Kadriorg
Petroleum. Street created/named around 1904 after the #Nobel Brothers’ petroleum depot. #Albert did not make all his money from #dynamite and #gelignite, far from it: he and his brothers Ludvig (and later his son Emanuel) and Robert
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#Nafta (Nafta)
Mineral oil, petroleum, naphtha. Part of an oil street-name group. See also #Petrooleumi. Street named in 1933, 2nd year of the great #SovietFamine, sinkhole of Soviet aspirations.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg #Sadama
#Industry #Tööstus
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

#Noblessneri (Noblessner)
Port named after #Noblessner, the name of the company created when #AlfredNobel’s nephew Emanuel, director of #Branobel (see #Petrooleumi), and a torpedo manufacturer by the name of #Lessner merged to build submarines for
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
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today Tallinn-Väike; ‘Felliner Bahnhof II’ was near #Petrooleumi and the line ran (or probably ambled) down #Vesivärava. As to the actual name, see, first, #Hao. Given as Haggud in 1447, the name could come from the plural of hagu:hao > hagude (but why, why, why?...
#History #Ajalugu
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