Estonia Boulevard ( Est. Estonia puiestee ) is one of the central streets of Tallinn , going from Freedom Square to Antsa Laikmaa Street , where it crosses into Gonsiori Street. The boulevard serves as one of the borders of Tammsaare Park .
| Estonia Boulevard | |
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 view of the boulevard from Freedom Square | |
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| A country | Estonia |
| City | Tallinn |
| Former names | Gogolevsky Boulevard |
History
The street got its modern name in 1922 [1] [2] , when Gogolevsky Boulevard became Estonia Boulevard during the campaign to rename Tallinn streets.
In 1904, a plot of land adjacent to the boulevard was allocated for the construction of the Revel Estonian Theater and People's House theater building (now the National Opera Estonia ) [3] .
Street development
4 - National Opera "Estonia" (architects Armas Lindgren and Vivi Lönn , 1913).
The Twilight statue ( Est. Hämarik ) at the Viru Keskus department store (4 Viru Square ) [4] .
6 - the former Tallinn Real School (1881–1884, architect M. Heppener, engineer K. Jacobi). Monument to teachers and students who fell in the war of liberation of 1918-1920 . [5]
8 - Tallinn Central Library. [6] Since 1957, the branch of the Historical Museum of the ESSR - the “Worker Basement” was located in this building (from 1921 to 1924 the legal workers' organizations occupied the basement and premises of the third floor) [7]
D. 9 - Shopping Center Solaris.
Monument to the People's Writer of the Estonian SSR Karl Ernst Särgava (Peterson) . [8] [9]
10 - Tallinn English College .
11 - Bank of Estonia (formerly the Eslyland Noble Credit Society, architect A. Reinberg , 1902-1904).
D. 13 - Bank building (1908, architect A. Yaron). The Great Hall (Independence Hall) is decorated with a painting by the Russian symbolist Nikolai Kalmakov (created in 1921) "February 24, 1918", depicting members of the Rescue Committee - Konstantin Päts , Jüri Wilms and Konstantin Konik .
15 - Ministry of Social Security of Estonia.
| National Opera "Estonia" | Bank of Estonia | 13 Estonia Boulevard | Tallinn real school |
Notes
- ↑ 90 years ago, the first large-scale “Estonization” of Russian and German street names of Tallinn (Estonia) took place
- ↑ How the streets are renamed: why did they leave Pushkin in Narva, and remove Russian writers in Tallinn?
- ↑ Opera and Ballet Theater "Estonia"
- ↑ “Twilight” sculpture near the “Viru Keskus” department store (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 4, 2016. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ Bronze boy and voiced coins
- ↑ Welcome to Tallinn Central Library
- ↑ I. Rosenberg Tallinn Museums, 1987
- ↑ Monument to Ernst Sargava-Peterson (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment May 3, 2016. Archived on May 7, 2016.
- ↑ Monument to Ernst Sargava-Peterson (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment May 3, 2016. Archived June 4, 2016.