replaced by #Vaksali in the 1840s, yet another example of the fluid nature of #language change… But this is all very iffy. Street part of the #E67 from #Helsinki to #Prague.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Railway #Raudtee
#Transport
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Not quits sure what this is... Maybe a waste-water evacuation tunnel into Šnelli tiik, Tallinn? If anyone has any bright ideas, thanks!

Ornamental, red-painted bridge over a neck of the pond, known as Šnelli tiik, Tallinn.

Child with turquoisey-purplish jacket and yellow pikachu hat feeding, or being fed to, pigeons in Šnelli tiik, Tallinn.

View of the city walls above Šnelli tiik, Tallinn.

operating on #Vaksali. Name seems to have been transliterated (in)differently as Šnelli, Snelli or Schnelli., but also known as #PatkuliTiik (Est.) or #Patkuls-Wallgraben (Ger.: Patkul’s pond or moat), or just plain #Vallikraav (Est.) or #Wallgraben (Ger.) in the early 1900s. See #Sügise.
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from cutting cuttings to cutting through cuttings. #Vaksali came in multiple flavors: a #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-1987) of #Nunne [Vaksali tänav] and #Väike-Kloostri [Vaksali põik]); prior to which another Vaksali tänav in #Nõmme was known as #Jaama tn (railway rd); a district:
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#Vaksali (Vaksal)
No pix, no longer exists. Long post, buckle up!
Railway station. Avenue (etc., see below) known first as #Bahnstraße (train st.), #Bahnhofstraße (station st.) or #Vauxhallstraße until 1882, with later records (1907) giving the #Russian name as #Вокзальный бульваръ which,
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#Balti Jaam (0)
Lit. Baltic Station. Not a street, but #Tallinn’s main railway station. Odd… While Estonia borrowed #Vaksal from #Russian which borrowed it from #English #Vauxhall which borrowed it from #AngloNorman la Sale Faukes, (cf. #Vaksali),
#PõhjaTallinn #Kelmiküla
#Railways #Raudteed
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