“The commerce in the Estonian SSR is divided into state, co-operative and collective farm trade. All these forms of trade are subjected to the Ministry of Commerce. Every year new shops are built; that makes the service more up to date. The Kotka shop at Lasnamäe (architects L. Aljaste, H. Aurik) was named after the Finnish town Kotka, the friendship-town of Tallinn. Tallinn furniture Centre is one of our biggest furniture shops.”
– R. Pangsepp, Soviet Estonia, Eesti Raamat, Tallinn, 1985
