telliskivi, kotzebue, gonsiori? :)
Telliskivi (Telliskivi): Brick, tile. See also Kivi. Named after brick factory founded in 1879 by Johann Grabby hence its other former name of Grabbysche Straße (± 1884).
Kotzebue (Otto von Kotzebue, 1787-1846): Baltic German born in Tallinn, completed three circumnavigations of the globe in Russian service. The north Alaskan town of Kotzebue (known as Qikiqtaġruk, or "place shaped like a long island", in Inupiaq) was named after him. Sovier Era renaming of this (1960-1990) and its prolongation Suurtüki (1960-1987) as Käsperti J., after a brief stint replacing Hiiu-Suurtüki (1959-1960).
Gonsiori (Jakob Johann Gonsior, 1794-1852): Formerly (1920) split into Greater- and Lesser-Gonsiori. 19th-C Tallinn alderman and lawyer, orphanage founder and funder. Renamed (1950-1991) as Lomonossovi M. during the Soviet Era.
- A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names, pages 153, 62, 20, © 2014 Simon Hamilton
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