Tallinn Airport is the largest international airport in Estonia. The airport is also officially called Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport after the former president of Estonia Lennart Meri.
Martin Müürsepp is an Estonian professional basketball coach and former player,who is the head coach of Haljala NGU of the Saku 2 liiga. Widely regarded as one of Estonia's greatest basketball players of all time,he is the first Estonian to have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Johan Pitka,VR I/1,was an Estonian entrepreneur and sea captain who served as the Commander of the Estonian Navy during the Estonian War of Independence.
SK Tallinna Sport,or simply Sport,is a defunct Estonian football club based in Tallinn. Founded in 1912,Sport won nine domestic league titles and was the most successful Estonian football club before Soviet occupation.
The Estonian Students' Society is the largest and oldest all-male academical student society in Estonia,and is similar to the Baltic German student organizations known as corporations (Corps). It was founded in 1870 at Tartu. It has over 900 members in Estonia and abroad.
Tallinna Jalgpalli Klubi, commonly referred to as simply TJK,is a defunct Estonian football club,based in Tallinn. Founded in 1921,TJK were one of the founding members of the Estonian Football Championship in 1921. On 4 January 2008,the club merged with SK Legion Tallinn and became TJK Legion.
Estonia–India relations are the bilateral relations between Estonia and India. India first recognised Estonia on 22 September 1921 when the former had just acquired membership in the League of Nations. India re-recognised Estonia on 9 September 1991 and diplomatic relations were established on 2 December of the same year in Helsinki. Estonia is represented in India by its embassy in New Delhi. India has an embassy in Tallinn.
Maarjamäe is a subdistrict in the district of Pirita,Tallinn,the capital of Estonia. It is bordered by Pirita and Kose to the north,Lasnamäe to the south,Kadriorg to the southwest and the Bay of Tallinn to the west. As of 2022,it has a population of 2,412.
Anton Uesson was an Estonian politician and engineer.
The Tallinn Power Plant is a former power plant located in Tallinn,Estonia. Construction of the power plant was initiated by Volta company and it was decided by the Tallinn City Council in 1912 after the work of special committee established in 1909. The plant was located next to the Tallinn Gas Factory at the location of the former Stuart fortress. The plant was designed by Volta and the architect was Hans Schmidt. Originally it used three Laval-type 250 horsepower (0.19 MW) steam turbines and three 250 horsepower (0.19 MW) electric generators—all produced by Volta. Two coal-fired boilers were manufactured by AS Franz Krull. The power plant was opened on 24 March 1913,and originally it was fired by coal. In 1919–1920 the plant was expanded and transferred to peat and wood. In 1924 the power plant was switched to oil shale. It was the first power plant in the world to employ oil shale as its primary fuel. In 1939,the plant achieved capacity of 22 MW.
Jakob Mändmets was an Estonian writer and journalist.
Andres Raag is an Estonian stage,film,radio and television actor and singer with the band L'Dorado since 1993.
Viktor Karl Jakob von Maydell,Baron von Maydell,was a Baltic German railway engineer and politician who was the mayor of Reval from December 1885 to July 1894.
Voldemar Vöölmann was an Estonian Communist politician who was the chairman of the city government of Tallinn from September 1917 to March 1918.
Karl Alexander Justus Riesenkampff was a Baltic German lawyer and politician who was the second mayor of Tallinn from March 1918 to 13 November 1918,with Erhard Arnold Julius Dehio as lord mayor. He graduated in 1910 from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu in jurisprudence. He first worked in courts in Yaroslavl and Riga,before eventually becoming a lawyer in Tallinn. He was the second mayor of Tallinn during the German occupation of Estonia during World War I,when the German Empire occupied most of newly independent Estonia,including Tallinn. Riesenkampff resigned as second mayor after the end of the occupation,but was still active in Tallinn,becoming the curator for the Tallinn Cathedral School,as well as a member of the German Cultural Association. He was succeeded as temporary deputy mayor by Aleksander Pallas. Riesenkampff eventually left for Germany,moving to Berlin,where he was previously a journalist. He died in 1940.
Kristjan Seaver was an Estonian Communist politician who was the chairman of the executive committee of Tallinn from 17 January to 24 August 1941. He initially was a member of the Ravila branch of the Bolsheviks. He later was involved in the October Revolution in Estonia,and was a planner of the failed 1924 uprising in Estonia. For his part,he was arrested in September 1925 and was sentenced to life in prison. He was later granted amnesty in 1940 and later participated in the Soviet takeover of Estonia. Seaver later became the chairman of the executive committee of Tallinn from 17 January to 24 August 1941. He disbanded all representational authority. After he resigned on 24 August,on 28 August,he evacuated Tallinn with a number of representatives of other Soviet authorities due to the Nazi German invasion of Tallinn. He was killed when the Baltic Fleet ship he was in,the destroyer Yakov Sverdlov,hit a naval mine in the Gulf of Finland and sank. He was succeeded as mayor by Artur Terras.
Tõnis Rätsep is an Estonian actor,musician,educator,poet,and playwright.
Elfriede Amanda Lender was an Estonian teacher and pedagogue. Lender was the founder of the first Estonian-language girls' school in the Estonia.
Helmi Üprus was an Estonian architectural and art historian. She trained in romance languages,studied English and ethnography,and earned a master's degree in art history from the University of Tartu in 1936. She worked her way up to head the cultural history department of the Estonian National Museum,where she researched folk art. In 1947,she began working at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. Persecuted by Stalinism she lost her job in 1950 and worked in a factory until Stalin's death. From 1953,she was the chief specialist in architecture and history for the government monument restoration service.
Mihkel Aitsam was an Estonian writer,journalist,and local historian.
