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The Irbene Radio Telescopes (RT-32 and RT-16) are located near the abandoned military town of Irbene, between the cities of Ventspils and Cape Kolka in western Latvia. Today they form part of the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre. A couple of years ago we managed to visit the area...

Sanatorium Marienbāde is a former sanatorium in Jūrmala, Latvia, It was founded in 1870 by Dr. Johan Kristian Nordstream and is known for being the first sanatorium in the area. The tower and gallery were added in 1926. The sanatorium's name is associated with the Czech spa town of Mariánské...

Visited here last year while stopping in Riga for a few days drinking for a friends birthday. There was supposed to be more exploring. But cool bars and the inability for either of us to say "that's enough beer" resulted in later stop outs. This was one of the sites we did manage. The overall...

Found this place on my way to the coast of Daugavgrivas, you can tell that it has been accessed by locals frequently from the amount of graffiti. However I cannot find the history of this place. 1st Floor 2nd Floor 3rd Floor - View of the basketball court and Pool on the balcony

I came across a news article about this abandoned school while I was doing some research for a trip to Latvia with @elliot5200. It didn't look that fascinating from the handful of pictures in the article but we decided to go for a look anyway. It turned out to be quite an interesting place with...

Once upon a time during the year 1965, a big factory was built, at that time one of the largest buildings by footprint in the world. People moved from all across the country to work in this factory, but they needed a place to stay so Mālkalne was built - the first neighbourhood of what would...

I couldn't find much history of this place, I only just found out that it was a hospital - at first I thought it was some sort of office building. The building is located in an industrial area with many similar abandoned buildings, underneath the building there is also a nuclear bunker which is...

In 2012 Weasel and I attempted to 'visit' Skrunda1. In all honesty we were a little premature in visiting. The buildings were secure, security was tight and the dogs were ..... there were dogs ok, big dogs, big barky dogs. We only managed 45 minutes on site. Cut to a very wet and windy...

The History (Borrowed from Wiki) Skrunda-1, also known as Skrunda-2, is a ghost town and former Soviet radar station located 5 km (3 mi) to the north of Skrunda, in Raņķi parish, Latvia. It was the site of two Dnepr radar (NATO Hen House) radar installations constructed in the 1960s. A Daryal...

History The history of the powerstation began in 1901 with a growing demand for electricity amongst capital’s inhabitants, which couldn't be satisfied by the private electricity generation businesses. The station was planned out by the well known German engineer Oskar von Miller and the total...

Most of you are probably going to hate this. Much of the below isn't seemingly relative to the building in mention, but I wanted to add some perspective and history to what took me there, and what I thought. It's been an interesting year so far. Overall a good one, but some bad shit has...

Originally named "Phoenix", Rīgas Vagonu Rūpnīca was a machine-building factory. It was founded in 1895 and was mainly focused on manufacturing trains. After the technical reconstruction in 1910 it was possible to increase the speed of manufacturing and in 1913 more than 4 000 wagons and 200...

The factory was opened in 1870 and in that time it was called Livonija. During the WW1 it was evacuated, but re-opened during the first years after proclamation of Republic of Latvia. In 1945 it the company was taken over by Soviet Union and gained a new name Vārpa. It was the only factory...

Karosta as an independent city area originated during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1890 to the north of Liepāja city the massive construction of fortifications and a military camp was begun. The official order to start building was given by Russian Tsar Alexander III. His son, Tsar...

Its a MiG15 in a field with a cat .... In Latvia :D Not much more to say really. More Here http://www.pastremnants.com/mig-in-a-field.html