Lasnamäe
- District Administration address:
Lasnamäe Linnaosa Valitsus
Reg. no. 75016013
www.tallinn.ee/lasnamae
Pallasti 54, 11413 Tallinn
Phone: (+372) 645 7700 and (+372) 6457718
Email: [email protected]
- Area 27.47 km², population 117,606.
- Types of buildings: mostly concrete blocks of flats, although new apartment buildings are being built alongside the old ones
- Renting price avg: €400 per month
- Buying price avg: €1900 per square meter
- Your typical neighbor: more than two-thirds are Russian speaking people that include Ukrainians, Belarusians and even Tatars. No matter what their mother tongue is, the younger generation almost always speaks English or some other foreign language.There is an increasing expat community in Lasnamäe too, composed of newcomers.
- Why Lasnamäe? The largest neighborhood of Tallinn has probably the lowest rents. Eighty-five percent of the housing is 5–16 stories high concrete panel blocks of flats, built between 1973 and 1992.
- History brief: The first inhabitants settled here about 5,000 years ago. During the 1920s mainly farms and the Tallinn Airfield were located there. With the Soviet occupation after WWII came major changes – the start of mass housing for largely Russian workers in 1973 changed everything.
- Key center: Lasnamäe Centrum shopping center at Mustakivi and Tondiraba Ice Arena.
- Special events: Ice skating competitions held at Tondiraba ice rink arena.