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Ülemiste
Ülemiste is a subdistrict () in the district of Lasnamäe, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru .... It has a population of 1,444 (). Estonia's largest airport Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport is located in Ülemiste. Ülemiste is the location of the Ülemiste Keskus shopping mall and the Ülemiste City business park. Ülemiste railway station will be the location of Rail Baltica's Tallinn terminal, which is planned to open in 2030. Gallery File:TLN-Ülemiste.JPG, Ülemiste train station before the rebuild in 2012 File:Nordea10.aug2008.JPG, Nordea File:Vaade uuelt viaduktilt.jpg, Bridge between Suur-Sõjamäe and Järvevana File:Ülemiste City.jpg, Ülemiste City See also * Ülemiste City * Ülemiste Tunnel References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport
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. The airport is located southeast of the city centre of Estonian capital Tallinn, on the eastern shore of Lake Ülemiste. It was previously known until 2009 as Tallinn Ülemiste Airport. The airport has a single asphalt/concrete runway, 08/26, that is and large enough to handle wide-bodied aircraft such as the Boeing 747, six taxiways and seventeen airport terminal, terminal gates. History Early development Prior to the establishment of the present airport in Ülemiste area, Lasnamäe Airfield was the primary airport of Tallinn, serving as a base for Aeronaut (airline), Aeronaut airline. After Aeronaut went bankrupt in 1928, air service was continued by Deruluft, which used Nehatu, Harju County, Nehatu instead, from the centre of Tallinn. The first seaplane harbour on the shores of Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ülemiste City
Ülemiste City is a business park in Tallinn, Estonia, on the territory of the former factory complex Dvigatel in Ülemiste neighbourhood. It is situated between Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, shopping centre Ülemiste Keskus and the Ülemiste railway station, forming the core of the Ülemiste subdistrict. History The factory complex Dvigatel, built in the end of the 19th century for producing railway cars and other machinery for the Russian Empire, lost its ''raison d’être'' after Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. After its privatization and some unsuccessful attempts to restore former production capacities, the new owners decided to reprofile the business. In 2005, AS Mainor launched the transformation of the favourably-located 36 ha old industrial area into a modern technology campus, drawing inspiration from Kista near Stockholm, called the Silicon Valley of the Nordic countries. In 2010, the Finnish company Technopolis was included in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ülemiste Keskus
Ülemiste is a subdistrict () in the district of Lasnamäe, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 1,444 (). Estonia's largest airport Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport is located in Ülemiste. Ülemiste is the location of the Ülemiste Keskus shopping mall and the Ülemiste City business park. Ülemiste railway station will be the location of Rail Baltica's Tallinn terminal, which is planned to open in 2030. Gallery File:TLN-Ülemiste.JPG, Ülemiste train station before the rebuild in 2012 File:Nordea10.aug2008.JPG, Nordea File:Vaade uuelt viaduktilt.jpg, Bridge between Suur-Sõjamäe and Järvevana File:Ülemiste City.jpg, Ülemiste City See also *Ülemiste City Ülemiste City is a business park in Tallinn, Estonia, on the territory of the former factory complex Dvigatel in Ülemiste neighbourhood. It is situated between Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, shopping centre Ülemiste Keskus and the Ülemiste ... * Ülemiste Tunnel References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ülemiste Railway Station
Ülemiste railway station () is a railway station in the Ülemiste sub-district of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. It is located approximately 500 metres from Tallinn Airport, to which it has been connected by a tramline since 2017. The station is served by the trains of the Estonian government-owned passenger train operator, Elron. Express trains from Tallinn Baltic Station stop at Ülemiste on the way to Tartu and Narva, and there is a commuter service to stations on the line to Aegviidu. Rail Baltica Ülemiste station will be the location of Rail Baltica's Tallinn terminus, which is planned to open in 2030. High-speed trains on Rail Baltica will connect the three Baltic capitals to Poland using the new standard-gauge railway. An international competition was held to find a design for the new terminal with "Light Stream" by Zaha Hadid Architects being declared as the winner. The new "Linda" terminal will be directly linked to Tallinn Airport by a pedestrian bridge. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Ülemiste
Lake Ülemiste () is the largest of the lakes surrounding Tallinn, Estonia. Ülemiste is the main part of the Tallinn water supply system, which supplies the city with most of its drinking water. The lake is fed mostly by Kurna stream and the Pirita River, through the Vaskjala–Ülemiste canal. Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport is located on the eastern shore of the lake and aircraft regularly take off and land over the lake. The airport maintains the necessary equipment ready to salvage in a short time any aircraft that crashes into the lake, as required by International Civil Aviation Organization regulations. The Tallinn Water Company, AS Tallinna Vesi, has a treatment plant on the north shore of the lake which supplies 90% of the water to the city. The remaining 10% comes from ground water wells, which are maintained as a backup in case the lake becomes contaminated. On 18 March 2010, a DHL Antonov An-26 aircraft made an emergency landing on the ice of the lake, leaking about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Baltica
Rail Baltica is an under-construction rail infrastructure project that is intended to integrate the Baltic states in the European rail network. Its purpose is to provide passenger and freight service between participating countries and improve rail connections between Central and Northern Europe, specifically the area southeast of the Baltic Sea. It is also intended as a catalyst for building the economic corridor in Northeastern Europe. The project envisages a continuous rail link with stations from Tallinn (Estonia) to Warsaw (Poland), via Riga (Latvia) and Kaunas (Lithuania), with two branches extending from the main line towards Riga International Airport and Vilnius (Lithuania). Its total length in the Baltic States is , with in Estonia, in Latvia, and in Lithuania. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mõigu
Mõigu is a subdistrict of the district of Kesklinn (Town Center) in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is located on the northeastern side of Lake Ülemiste. It has a population of 377 (). Mõigu's former German name until 1918 was ''Moik'', also spelled ''Moick''. Mõigu village was first time mentioned in written in 1241 in Liber Census Daniæ under name of ''Møickæ''. The village in that time situated few kilometres south-east from current Mõigu subdistrict of Tallinn. At the end of 16th century a Mõigu manor (Moik, Moick) was founded at the farm-plot of a peasant called Vana Jaan (Old Jaan) at the territory of Mõigu village. About a century later the manor was moved to this-time Järveküla village. This caused exchanging the names of the villages, as inhabitants of (former) Järveküla were moved to Mõigu while the manor was moved from Mõigu to Järveküla, and both sides took their place-name with them. Therefore, the heart of current Järveküla (literally: Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ülemiste Tunnel
The Ülemiste Tunnel is a road tunnel in Tallinn, Estonia. It is located southeast of the city centre near the Lake Ülemiste. The tunnel connects Peterburi road ( Tallinn–Narva Road, part of E20) with Järvevana road (part of the inner beltway A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist in reducin ...). It opened on 9 October 2013. The tunnel is long and consists of two parts divided by a thick concrete wall. It is the only road tunnel of its kind in Estonia. References External links * Buildings and structures in Tallinn Tunnels in Estonia Tunnels completed in 2013 Transport in Tallinn Road tunnels {{Estonia-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sikupilli
Sikupilli (Estonian for 'bagpipe', literally 'goat instrument') is a subdistrict () in the district of Lasnamäe, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 12,266 (). Name The Estonian common noun ''sikupill'' literally means 'goat instrument' and is a synonym for ''torupill The torupill () is a traditional bagpipes, bagpipe from Estonia. Place in Estonian folk music It is not clear when the bagpipe became established in Estonia. The instrument was known throughout Estonia. The bagpipe tradition was longest preser ...'' 'bagpipe'. There are three hypotheses regarding why the neighborhood was given this name. The architectural and urban historian suggested that many residents of the area kept goats, and so it was named after their bleating. Another theory connects the name with the neighboring subdistrict of Torupilli. A third hypothesis mentions a pasture named ''Sikupilli'' in the Lasnamäe district, suggesting that this name was later extended to the neig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rae, Harju County
Rae is a village in Rae Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia. (retrieved 27 July 2021) It's located just southeast of the capital Tallinn. Rae has a population of 602 (as of 1 January 2010). Rae Manor (''Johannishof'') was first mentioned in 1390. From the 16th century it belonged to the St. John's Almshouse, later it was owned by the city council (''raad'') of Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and .... The single-story historicist stone main building was constructed in the 1850s. Rae is bordered by the Tallinn–Tartu road (E263) to the southwest and the Tallinn Ring Road (nr. 11) to the southeast. The northeastern half of the village territory behind the Vaskjala– Ülemiste canal is covered by Rae bog. Population References External links Rae M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juhkentali
Juhkentali is a subdistrict () in the district of Kesklinn (Midtown), Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 1,221 (). History Pleekmäe, a suburb ('' vorstadt''), which located on the shore of the Härjapea, was first mentioned in 1536 as ''Bleke''. The subdistrict nowadays known as Juhkentali, was passed by the Härjapea. Gallery File:Tallinna bussijaam.jpg, Tallinn Bus Station File:KaleviKeskstaadion.jpg, Kalevi Keskstaadion File:Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, 2007.jpg, Bronze Soldier on the Tallinn Military Cemetery File:Juhkentali rimi.JPG, Rimi supermarket in Juhkentali street File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Kesklinn-Juhkentali-Juhkentali school.JPG, Juhkentali school File:Fahle.jpg, Fahle House / old cellulose factory reconstruction File:Fahle maja.jpg, File:EU-EE-TLN-Juhkentali street.JPG, Main street of quarter See also * Tallinn Bus Station * Kalevi Keskstaadion * Kalevi Spordihall * Tallinn Sports Hall * Siselinna Cemetery * Defence Forces Cemetery of Tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and administratively lies in the Harju County, Harju ''Counties of Estonia, maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city, Tartu, however, only south of Helsinki, Finland; it is also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical Names of Tallinn in different languages, name Reval. “Reval” received Lübeck law, Lübeck city rights in 1248; however, the earliest evidence of human settlement in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
