Black-and-white, limestone-based and timber-framed old house in Toom-Kuninga, Tallinn.

View down the winding hill of Toom-Kuninga, Tallinn, with its timber-framed houses and greenery.

Modern rectangular building with wood-framed window shades and structure and over-hanging glass-panelled roofing along with its artistically-patterned paving-bricks in front of it in Toom-Kuninga, Tallinn.

Trio (if not quattuor, hard to tell) of very modern 4- to 8-storey apartment blocks featuring large glass windows with (if my memory serves me correctly) an old graffiti-painted gas-distribution post in Toom-Kuninga, Tallinn.

#Toom-Kuninga (Toom-Kuningas)
#Cathedral king. Renamed (1950-1990) as #Pioneeride during the #SovietOccupation.
That's all, no need to rush off to check the website 😉

Their #relationship is very far from clear: did he ‘seduce’ her, or was she ashamed for, ahem, coveting his (?) “#ShiningSilverSpear”? Was she his #sister or his #aunt? Did he fall asleep too soon and snore? Renamed (1979-1995) as #Kangelaste during the #SovietOccupation.
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house, the ‘#SutyaginSkyscraper’, built by its eponymous local racketeer. #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-1991) of #Gonsiori.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Literature #Kirjandus
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Renamed (1979-1995) as #Tehumardi during the #SovietOccupation. Part of a magico-mythological group. See #Virbi.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur
#Folklore #Folkloor
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#GreatNorthernWar. Renamed (1948-1989) as #Kallaku during the #SovietOccupation. Same name also used for the #PiiskopiAed (Bishop's garden) and #PiiskopiAiaVaateplats and (Bishop's garden viewing-platform).

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Wikipedia page devoted to him in #Tamil, see ஜான் ஆன்வெல்ட், and if you don’t find that writing beautiful you have no soul. #SovietOccupation renaming (1957-1991) of #Kivisilla and #Reimani V. December 1 is now celebrated as #SisejulgeolekuPäev (National Internal Security Day).

#NõukogudeOkupatsioon
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Liivalaia (Liivalai)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Tatari #Veerenni #Sibulaküla #Keldrimäe #Maakri
#SandyExpanse, avenue, channel... Named after local sand flats, see #Liiva. Nice muddle this one: Renamed (1944-92?) as #Kingissepa V. during the #SovietOccupation (at one stage of its evolutionary mutation
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(or out of the way) by #German soldiers, and the date switched for propaganda purposes (See M. J. #Broekmeyer, #Stalin, the #Russians, and their War). #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-1990) of #Tondi. #Matrosov had various places named after him: a small town in #Kaliningrad formerly known as
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#Theo, via #Tehu, from an abbreviation of #Stefanus, and #Marte, prob. from #Martinus. #SovietOccupation renaming (1979-1995) of #Vilisuu.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Municipality #Omavalitsus
#World_War_II #II_MaailmaSõda
#FarmName #TaluNimi
#NõukogudeOkupatsioon
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#Raamatukogu (Raamatukogu)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Library, public library, lit. book collection. #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-1989) of #Kiriku. While #raamat is a loan from old #Pskov and #Novgorod #Russian #гра́мота (gramota, book or writing-paper), borrowed from #Greek #γράμματα
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naturally lends itself to sensible explanation but, rather, for stabilizing railway lines. Local by-ways add weight (no pun intended) to this argument. On the other hand, it was a women’s prison... Maybe they broke smaller stones? Renamed (1960-1990) as #Killustiku during the #SovietOccupation.
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of the #NKVD #BalticDistrictForces with the execution of #AleksanderLäve, #PaulMalsvel(l), #JuliusPalm, and #JohanNõmmikLinkhorst responsible, directly or indirectly, for his arrest. #SovietOccupation renaming (1974-1990) of #Jõe, #Liivalaia and #Pronksi. The town of #Kuressaare on #Saaremaa was
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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.

During the #SovietOccupation (1948-1987), part of #Niguliste integrated with #Kuninga..

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Royalty #Kuninglik
#Landowner #Maaomanik
#NõukogudeOkupatsioon
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#Linnuse (Linnus)
##Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Priisle
#Stronghold. Many #Estonian towns began life as a one of these, Tallinn no less. Also a #SovietOccupation renaming (1954-1987) of #ToomRüütli.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Fortification #Kindlustus

#Loitsu (Loits)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna
#Spell, charm, incantation. Renamed (1979-1994) as #Oki F. during the #SovietOccupation. Part of a magico-mythological group. See #Lummu.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur

#SovietOccupation renaming (1959-1994) of #HiiuMaleva. With a history of chronic name change: Started as #Ohvitseri (officer), split up into #Maleva and #Tamme (which used to be #Walkre after local houseowner Mr Walker) in 1922 with an interlude as #Ava (opening, orifice), and brief flirtations
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#Oki F. (Feodor Okk, 1898-1941)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#RussoEstonian #communist agent, a bit dodgy, to say the least. Expelled from #Estonia in 1938 but even the #USSR didn’t want him. For once not a #SovietOccupation (1979-1994) renaming (of Loitsu), they seem to have built it.

#Kommunist

#Paekaare (Paekaar)
#Limestone crescent. Road encircling the northern half of #Pae District. Renamed (±1978-1991) #KindralFedjuninski during the #SovietOccupation.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Limestone #Lubjakivi
#NõukogudeOkupatsioon

#Leineri A. (Aleksander Leiner, 1902-1927)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Estonian #Communist “murdered (according to #Kivi who may well have been under 'influence' to present a particular political correctness) by the #bourgeois #EstonianSecurityPolice”. #SovietOccupation renaming (1940-91) of #Poska J.

#Rabtšinski I. (Ivan Vasilyevich Rabchinsky, 1879-1950)
#Historical #Ajalooline
One-time Chairman of the #MilitaryRevolutionaryCommittee and, later, editor of various #Estonian partisan papers. Name lives on on Russian cargo ship tramping the 7 seas. #SovietOccupation renaming (1964-90) of #Vabriku.

#VladimirIlyich, very soft.” The genitive of #säde is actually #Sädeme. So presumably either because used as a #nominative (not very likely) or to emphasize the #titular nature of the #spark in question, this is an alternative genitive (see #Süda P.). #SovietOccupation renaming (1948-1987) of

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Amazon. #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-1989) of #Kaarli puiestee.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Military #Sõjaline
#NõukogudeOkupatsioon
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to do with dancing where ‘#polka’ is thought to come from #Czech #půlka (half, or half-step, see chap. "L’indéchiffrable de la langue française" in #FrançaisHorsDeFrance! by the present author) of the #SovietArmy’s #8thEstonianRifleCorps. #SovietOccupation renaming (1979-1994/5) of
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#Lenini (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, 1870-1924)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, #Russian revolutionary, #Bolshevik, communist politician, owner of a 1916 #RollsRoyce #SilverGhost, and #graphomaniac (55 thick volumes of writings published, see #Säde). #SovietOccupation renaming
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#SovietOccupation renaming (1982-1994) of #Seli and now the name of a park to the east of #Kantsi, just off #Peterburi. This was also one of the origin events of the #Blackheads (#MustpeadeVennaskond), a #Brotherhood or minor #guild (See #Pikk 10), whose legends include its being involved in
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#Kindral Fedjuninski (Ivan Fedyuninsky, 1900-1977)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Much-decorated #HeroOfYheSovietUnion, and #General (kindral) of the #2ndShockArmy at the 1944 #BattleOfNarva. #SovietOccupation renaming first (1978-1981) as Ivan Fedjuninski then Kindral Fedjuninski (1981-91) of #Paekaare.

far as #Narva then returned and was elected to the #TallinnSoviet. Died in #Тимашёвск (Timashevsk, Krasnodar Krai), in the same year as 75 Jews killed by #Nazi #Einsatzgruppen, (association or relevance unclear). #SovietOccupation renaming of #Roopa (1959-1960) then #NõmmeKase (1960-1990).
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#assassinated by the #NKVD. #SovietOccupation renaming (1944?-1989) of #Roosikrantsi.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#NõukogudeOkupatsioon
#Communist #Kommunist
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#Kiriku (Kirik)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #Toompea #Tatari
#Church. All three addresses, Kiriku #plats, #põik & #tänav respectively renamed (1950-1989) as #Raamatukogu during the #SovietOccupation. According to the 2005 (which gives a hint as to how long I’ve been working on this bloody book)
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