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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

Not on the list of things to see or do, in fact this place was a total suprise. as was the emergency stop executed by our driver when we spotted it! We had a poke round but could not venture as deep into the site as we wanted due to quite a lot of barking and human activity. In Latvia, just...

The Northern Costal Batteries of Ventspils and Leipaja are huge, mile after mile of the coastline is littered with decaying hulks of concrete which are slowly being destroyed by mother nature. The batteries were built between 1939 & 1941 with emplacements for 130mm cannons, command towers...

Somewhere between Ventspils and Kolka cape in Latvia are two radio telescopes. Originally there were 3 but now only two remain (RT-32 (main dish is 32 meters in diameter) and RT-16 (16 meters)). The smallest one, RT-10 was taken away when the soviets left Latvia in 90’s. With these antennas the...

My memories of the "Cold War" is the bitwise right vague, even though I am in the "right age" (old) :p: As a kid in the 70s I read "If war breaks out" in the telephone-cataloge, often saw TV-news with reports of the 80's cold war, but thought that "Cold War" is something that affects central...

Looked through my hard drive for old visits and pictures that I have not published, found some pictures from a trip in 2008 and has now published some new galleries from Latvia. Among other things, a gallery from one of the many missile bases during the Cold War was located very close to...

Irbene, only 200 km away from the town Slite on the Swedish island Gotland…. Irbene Here was one of the Soviet Union several "Radio Telescopes" stationed. To maintain the facility with staff as a whole society was built, nearly 2000 employees who lived in simple housing barracks and spent...

When Latvia became independent in 1991, Ligatne’s top-secret nuclear fallout shelter, hidden away in rural countryside 75 kilometres south-east of capital Riga, remained a secret defence object. Indeed, it was only finally revealed when its one-metre-thick doors were opened to an unsuspecting...