Tallinn Creative Hub

This guide to Tallinn Creative Hub follows a student's diploma sketch that became real: Evald Maltenek drafted a power plant at a Riga polytechnic, then got the chance to build it in this bay, switching the city on in March 1913. It tracks engineer Markson's twenty-four years expanding the plant through empire, independence and occupation, and the oil-shale fuel switch that made it a first of its kind. You'll hear about the brick chimney rebuilt after the war and about Andrei Tarkovsky, who found the derelict halls striking enough to film here before the boilers finally went cold. Look up at the chimney rising over the boiler house as you listen.