Vaimu (Tallinn)


Vaimu (Vaim): 1) Spirit, ghost, apparition; 2) Mind, mental power; 3) Woman farm labourer on corvée duty. Earliest records (17th-C) give the German name Spukgasse/Spukstrasse. The Russians knew it as ??? Strashnaya ulitsa (scary street). The Soviets, anti-superstitious and prosaic to the last, renamed it Vana (Old).
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Coordinates:   59°26'22"N   24°44'49"E
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