What Riga looked like 30 years ago

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Categories: Europe | History

The Baltic States in the Soviet years were something like their "little abroad" — beautiful clean streets of Baltic cities, mysterious names in Latin, no shortage in stores, beautiful girls in fashionable clothes. Holidays in Palanga or Jurmala were then considered more prestigious than on the Black Sea coast. And the beautiful Riga in the Soviet years became an invariable film set for films about "foreign life". Its elegant streets, where there are so many ancient buildings — from medieval to Art Nouveau style-appeared in dozens of paintings of those years.

We invite you to take a walk through the photogenic streets of Riga in the 80s with the help of these rare pictures.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

It's not easy to drop a letter in the mailbox if you're a junior.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Fashionable Riga youth of the 80s.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Marstal Street in Old Riga.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Retrocars on Lenin Street (now it is Brivibas Street).

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Lenin Street is the central street of Riga, which starts from the Freedom Monument ("Milda") and goes through the entire right-bank city territory of Riga from Rainis Boulevard to the city border.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Girls on the background of the "Books" store.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Skarnu Street.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Three Brothers is a complex of ancient buildings in the center of Old Riga.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Architectural details.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Booksellers in the city center.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

"Zhiguli" on the street Amata.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

A girl and her collie on the platform.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Railway station Square and Garlib Merkel Street.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Kirov Street-cinemas "Spartak" and "Riga".

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Such a fashionable skateboarding in the 80s at the Bikerniek sports recreation center.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

After lessons.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Romantic Riga.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Reflections.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

Racing at the Bikerniek sports recreation center.

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

What Riga looked like 30 years ago

One of the racers.

Keywords: Europe | History | Riga | USSR | 80s | Baltic States

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