Riga 30 years ago Bashny.Net

Baltic States during the Soviet era was something of a little abroad - nice clean streets of its cities, mysterious names in Latin, no deficit in the shops, beautiful girls in fashionable clothes. Rest in Palanga or Jurmala then considered more prestigious than on the Black Sea coast. A beautiful Riga in the Soviet years was the same film set for a movie about life abroad. Its elegant streets, where so many historic buildings - from medieval to modern, - appeared in dozens of pictures of those years. We invite you to stroll through the streets of the Latvian capital photogenic '80s with these vintage images.


Three Brothers - a complex of old buildings in Old Town.



Marstalu street in the Old Town.






Lenin Street - the main street of Riga, which starts from the Freedom Monument ("Milda") and goes through the right bank of the urban area of ​​Riga Rainis Boulevard to the city boundaries.




Street Skārņu.




Kirov Street - cinema "Spartacus" and "Riga».