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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#Karbiküla (0)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Lit. ±‘boxville’, a former neighborhood squished between #Kopli, #Sitsi and #Sõle on plots upon which houses were required to occupy less than 20-25% of the area, resulting in their own particular style.

#TallinnHistory #TallinnaAjalugu

From ’41, there followed a series of name changes involving (or not) ‘#BaltiManufaktuur’ until 1995, when acquired (?) and renamed as #Baltex2000 until its closure and loss of several hundred jobs in 2006. See #Manufaktuuri, #Ketraja and #Sitsi. Another translation is ‘heap of granite’. Although
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#Majakovski V. (Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1893-1930)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Georgian-born #Russian #poet, #playwright and #agitpropagandist, committed suicide in 1930. #SovietOccupation renaming of #Kari (1953-1995) and #Sitsi (1953-1990).

#Literature #Kirjandus
#Communism #Kommunism

#Niidi (Niit)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Sitsi
#Thread, #filament. One of a textile raw materials street group. See also #Puuvilla.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Industry #Tööstus
#Commerce #Kaubandus

In the former Baltic Manufactory yard at Sitsi, a tall brick chimney rises above weathered brick halls and concrete blocks. Cracked asphalt and patches of grass stretch across the foreground, while blurred trees frame the view on a windy, overcast day.

Ghost factory

📷 Sitsi

#estonia #tallinn #sitsi #historical #landmark #cityscape #architecture #photography

#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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#Lina (Lina)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Sitsi
Flax, sheet, linen. One of a textile raw materials street group. See also #Lõime.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Industry #Tööstus

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Sitsi (and bar, open 09:00-21:00).

The bar in question.

View along Sitsi, Tallinn, in the Sõle direction.

Front of house in Sitsi, Tallinn, flanked by trees the essence of which the average Estonian would laugh at me for not recognizing them instantly...

#Sitsi (Sits): #Asum
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Sitsi
Derived, they say, from #Hindi: printed cotton or calico, perhaps सूती, sūtī, which seems to be cotton the finished product (cloth or thread) as opposed to कॉटन, kŏṭana, cotton the raw material.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Manufaktuuri, with previous builging identifier, 'M3' painted above.

Outer-shell remains of former factory slated for reconversion into apartments in Manufaktuuri, Tallinn.

Variegated green-tiled block of apartments in Manufaktuuri, Tallinn.

More naturally green, a small apple (and the occasional damson) orchard next to Kopli in Manufaktuuri, Tallinn.

#Manufaktuuri (Manufaktuur)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Sitsi
After the former #BaltiManufaktuur (see #Kangru). The street and locality are currently being transformed into yet another residential and business #kvartal. The old factory will be rebuilt into some 500 apartments.
#Construction #Ehitus

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Puuvilla.

View along Puuvilla, Tallinn, in the Sitsi direction.

Wooden house in Puuvilla, Tallinn.

Sculpture of a wooden dog in front of a house in Puuvilla, Tallinn. There's a pun here involving puu=wood and villa=house, but I don't know what it is.

#Puuvilla (Puuvill)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Sitsi
Cotton (lit. tree-wool). One of a textile raw materials street group. Word probably derived from or calqued on #German #Baumwolle, wool. See also #Sitsi.
#Industry #Tööstus
#Technology #Tehnoloogia
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names

Oddly-triangular and asymmetrical geometry of a roof in Kanepi, Tallinn.

Side-alley with garages or lock-ups in Kanepi, Tallinn.

View of a possible giant onion / leek (Allium giganteum), in a garden in Kanepi, Tallinn.

Well-tended garden in Kanepi, Tallinn.

or streets named after textile raw materials, in #Sitsi Sub-district of #Põhja-Tallinn. See also #Lina. Can also mean cannabis, but not in this instance.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kanepi.

View along Kanepi, Tallinn, from the Niidi direction.

View along Kanepi, Tallinn, from the Lina direction.

Apartment block in Kanepi, Tallinn.

#Kanepi (Kanep)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Sitsi
Hemp. Word possibly derived from 6/7th C #Proto-Latvian, but widespread #Eurasian usage and interloan makes anything hard to pin down. Belonging to TT’s group of the #tekstiilitoorainetenimeliste tänavad,
#Plants #Taimed
#Tööstus #Industry
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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

Tallinn business (?) displaying the streetname Paavli on its rooftop, and view along the same street in Tallinn in the Kopli direction.

Wide, perhaps 25+ meter, three-storey industrial building completely painted with murals in Paavli, Tallinn.

Inner couryard of the Paavli Kultuurivabrik in Paavli, Tallinn.

Spare parts of future buildings at the Sõle / Angervaksa end of Paavli, Tallinn. Lots of modernization projects in the neighborhood.

#Paavli (Paavel)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Sitsi #Karjamaa
Paul, perhaps afirst or family name, perhaps after a one-time local resident but, given that the horrid agnostics across the border defrocked him (1950-1990) in favor of Popovi A, they too might have guessed the saint (feast day 25th January).