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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1963
SPACE TYPE: Barrack or base, Other
PRESERVATION STATUS: Abandoned
The small town of Skrunda, 150 km from Riga in Latvia, was the site of two HEN HOUSE radars built in the 1960s. Construction of a PECHORA [Daryal] class large phased array radar at the so-called “northern center” began in 1984. According to some [...]
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SPACE TYPE: Monument
Set in a pine forest southeast of Riga, near the town of Salaspils, Kurtenhof Concentration Camp was the bigger of two camps built in or near the Latvian capital for civilians and Jews from the occupied territories. Set in a clearing a few hundred me [...]
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CONSTRUCTION YEAR: 1900
SPACE TYPE: Fortification
PRESERVATION STATUS: Ruin
Karosta (War Port) is a neighbourhood in the north of Liepāja in western Latvia by the Baltic sea. It was constructed in 1890-1906 as a naval base for the Russian Tsar Alexander III, and later served as a base for the Soviet Baltic Fleet (see Wes [...]
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