🇪🇪 Veider, et Tuukri tänav peale torude vahetust uuesti tuimalt üle asfalteeriti. Liiklus super rahulik, oleks saanud midagi palju mõnusamat seal teha…

🇬🇧 A quiet street covered in black stuff instead of upgrading it to something nicer. Tallinn has a long way to go to become human-centric.

#Tuukri (Tuuker)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama
Diver, of the bronze helmet and concrete knickers variety. First known as #Neu-Holland Straße in 1856, then #Hollandi from 1850-odd to 1950. During construction of new housing developments in #Kadriorg, a ship was
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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Madalmaa (Madalmaa)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama
#Lowland. New or projected street (2008) just off "Tuukri. Given the latter’s former name of #Hollandi, it could refer to the #Netherlands, in which case it should be plural: #Madalmaade. And so, given the area’s slow geological rise out of the sea,
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dug up about 200 m from the current shore, named #Viljo after the building-site manager, and dates back to later than 1487. See #Liiva for information on Estonia’s and Tallinn’s slow rise from the sea. See also #Pikksilma, where a similar find was made next to this.
#Archaeology #Arheoloogia
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#Uus-Sadama (Uus-Sadama)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sadama
New Harbor (see #Sadama). First known (1882) as #NeueHafenstraße, the street has gone though the usual gamut of name variations, with transliteration into #Russian as #НоваяГаванная ул. (New Havannaya) and #НовоГаванская ул. (New Havanskaya)
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#Bensiini (Bensiin)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg #Sadama
Petrol, gas, gasoline. Part of an oil street-name group. See also #Filmi.
#Energy #Energia
#Technology #Tehnoloogia
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

#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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#that used to be called Uus #Holland (New Holland) due to its gradual rise from the sea over the past 200 years and hence former waterlogged soil and rivers (see #Paljassaare). Streets now occupying some of the wasteland north of #Tuukri.
#Maritime #Merendus
#WaterRelatedStreets #VeeteedeTänavad
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Interesting to note that this ship used moss as caulking. See also #Tuukri, where a similar find was made next to this.
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