Tallinn:

Tallinn, the capital of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, is a great administrative, industrial old cultural centre. It has a population of about 450 thousand. The town covers an area of over 150 square kilometres. The modern housing developments and the old districts fit in well together: the straight lines of the twentieth century architecture are in consonance with the Gothic steeples, the ornate Baroque and monumental Neoclassical buildings.The town is rich in relics: 156 ancient buildings and 287 works of figurative art are under state protection, and there are 228 objects listed among historical monuments. Tallinn has four higher educational establishments, five theatres, a number of clubs, libraries, research and design institutes. All this attracts a great number of tourists from the other republics of the Soviet Union, as well as from many foreign countries.