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Latvia
The Republic of Latvia is a North European neighbor of the Russian Federation. The country is rich in Bronze Age artifacts; forest lands and wildlife; and folklore and folk music traditions that have been preserved for more than 1,000 years. Contributors typically seek answers to Latvia's participation in the European Union; and response to the Soviet legacy of economic underdevelopment, educational underachievement, large scale indebtedness, Russian dominated urban life, and school closings.
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When was the last time Latvia won the Eurovision Song Contest?
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Which famous people are in Latvia?
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- Augusts Vilis Abakuks (1914-1994) - a leader of the British Latvian community in exile
- Valerians Abakovskis (1895-1921) - inventor of a propeller-powered railcar, the aerowagon.
- Rutanya Alda(1942) - actress (Mommy Dearest, Deer Hunter)
- Viktors Alksnis (1950) - Soviet military officer and Russian communist politician known as "the Black Colonel"
- Iveta Apkalna (1976) - organist
- Fricis Apšenieks (1894-1941) - chess player
- Vija Artmane (1929-2008) - actress
- Gunārs Astra (1931-1988) - dissident, fighter for human rights
- Auseklis see Miķelis Krogzems
- Helmuts Balderis (1952) - ice hockey player, forward
- Jānis Balodis (1881-1965) - army officer and politician
- Jānis Balodis (1950) - Latvian/Australian playwright
- Krišjānis Barons (1835-1923) - "the father of Latvian folk songs", who compiled and edited the first publication of Latvian folk-song texts "Latvju Dainas" (1894-1915)
- Mihails Barišņikovs] (1948) - ballet-dancer
- Kārlis Baumanis (1835-1905) - composer, author of the national anthem of the Republic of Latvia "Dievs, svētī Latviju!" (God bless Latvia!)
- Vizma Belševica (1931-2005) - author, candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature
- Eduards Berklavs (1914-2004) - politician, leader of Latvian national-communists
- Krišjānis Berķis (1884-1942) - general
- Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) - philosopher
- Eduard Berzin (1894-1938) - soldier in the Red Army, later Head of Dalstroy, the Kolyma forced-labour camps in North-Eastern Siberia
- Isaac Janis Porter Berzins (1990 - ) winner of 2009s music PEI award of Indie Pop Recording of the Year, for New Royalty's "Sleepover EP"
- Karlis Betinš (1867-1943) - chess player
- Andris Biedriņš (1986) - basketball player, Golden State Warriors
- Gunnar Birkerts (1925) - architect
- Ernests Blanks (1894-1972) - Latvian publicist, writer, historian, the first to publicly advocate for Latvia's independence
- Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863-1908) - writer and playwright
- Himans Blūms (1913) - painter
- Inguna Butane, Latvian fashion model.
- Valters Caps (1905-2003) - designed first Minox 8 x 11 photocameras
- Gustavs Celmiņš (1899-1968) - fascist politician, leader of Pērkonkrusts movement
- Vija Celmins (1938) - American painter born in Latvia
- Aleksandrs Čaks (1901-1950) - poet
- Jānis Čakste (1859-1927) - first Latvian president
- Māris Čaklais (1940-2003) - poet
- Roberts Dambītis (1881-1957) - general and politician
- Jānis Dāliņš (1904-1978) - athlete, race walker
- Emīls Dārziņš (1875-1910) - composer
- Jacob Davis (1834-1908) - inventor of denim
- Johans Aleksandrs Heinrihs Klapje de Kolongs (1839-1901) - naval engineer
- Eliass Eliezers Desslers (1892-1953) - Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Jewish philosopher
- Leor Dimant (1972) - Turntabilist and member of the rock group Limp Bizkit
- Anatols Dinbergs (1911-1993) - diplomat
- Aleksis Dreimanis (1914) - geologist
- Inga Drozdova (1975) - model and actress
- Mihails Eizenšteins (1867-1921) - architect
- Sergejs Eizenšteins (1898-1948) - film director
- Modris Eksteins (1943) - Canadian historian and world-famous writer
- Andrievs Ezergailis (1930) - historian of the Holocaust
- Movša Feigins (1908-1950) - chess player
- Gregors Fitelbergs (1879-1953) - conductor, composer and violinist
- Vesels fon Freitāgs-Loringhofens (1899-1944) - colonel and member of the German resistance against German dictator Adolf Hitler
- Sandra Freiberga (1961) - journalist and TV personality
- Laila Freivalds (1942) - former Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Inese Galante (1954) - opera singer (soprano)
- Gints Gabrāns (1970) - artist
- Elīna Garanča (1976) - opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
- Kārlis Goppers (1876-1941) - general, founder of Latvian Boy Scouts
- Andrejs Grants (1955) - photographer
- Ernests Gulbis (1988) - Latvian professional tennis player
- Natālija Gulbis (1983) - Latvian-descent LPGA golfer
- Uldis Ģērmanis (1915-1997) - historian, under the alias of Ulafs Jāņsons a social commentator
- Aivars Ģipslis (1937-2000) - chess player
- Moriss Halle (1923) - linguist
- Filips Halsmans (1906-1979) - Latvian/American photographer
- Juris Hartmanis (1928) - computer scientist, Turing Award winner
- Uvis Helmanis - basketball player
- Artūrs Irbe (1967) - ice hockey player (NHL), goalkeeper
- Kārlis Irbītis (1904 - 1997) - aviation inventor, engineer, designer
- Gatis Jahovičs - basketball player
- Andrejs Jansons (1938) - musician, composer, conductor
- Mariss Jansons (1943) - conductor
- Inese Jaunzeme (1932) - athlete
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- Sandra Kalniete (1952) - politician, diplomat, former Latvia's EU commissioner
- Bruno Kalniņš (1899-1990) - Saeima member, Red Army General
- Imants Kalniņš (1941) - composer, politician
- Oskars Kalpaks (1882-1919) - colonel, first Commander of Latvian National Armed Forces
- Kaspars Kambala (1978) - basketball player
- Renārs Kaupers (1974) - musician
- Jēkabs Ketlers (1610-1682) - Duke of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
- Gustavs Klucis (1895-1938) - painter and graphic designer
- Aleksandrs Koblencs (1916-1993) - chess player
- Ābrams Izāks Kūks (1864-1935) - chief rabbi, Jewish thinker, statesman, diplomat, mediator and a renowned scholar
- Aleksandrs Kovaļevskis (1840-1901) - zoologist
- Gidon Kremer (1947) - violinist and conductor
- Miķelis Krogzems (1850-1879) - poet, author and translator of German poets
- Juris Kronbergs (1946) - poet, writer, free-lance journalist, translator
- Atis Kronvalds (1837-1875) - teacher and journalist, reformed the Latvian language, organized the first Latvian Song and Dance Festival
- Dainis Kūla (1959) - athlete (Olympic gold medal in javelin)
- Alberts Kviesis (1881-1944) - president
- Eriks Kigelis (1955-1985) - composer
- Aleksandrs Laime (1911-1994) - explorer
- Vilis Lācis (1904-1966) - author and politician
- Ed Leedskalnin (1887-1951) - builder of Coral Castle in Florida, claimed to have discovered the ancient magnetic levitation secrets used to construct the Egyptian pyramids.
- Jēkabs Mihaels Reinholds Lencs (1751-1792) - author
- Marija Leiko (1887-1937) - actress
- Alexander Liepa (1919-2000) - inventor, artist
- Maris Liepa (1936-1989) - ballet-dancer
- Nikolajs Loskis (1870-1965) - philosopher
- Jānis Lūsis (1939) - athlete
- Jevgēnija Ļisicina (1942) - organist
- Maris Martinsons (1960) - professor of strategic management, international business consultant
- Hermanis Matisons (1894-1932) - chess player
- Zenta Mauriņa (1897-1978) - writer, literary scholar, culture philosopher
- Juris Māters (1845-1884) - author, lawyer and journalist, translated laws to Latvian and created the foundation for Latvian law
- Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887-1925) - first Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Leo Mihelsons (1887-1978) - artist
- Arnolds Mikelsons (1922-1984) - artist
- Evgenijs Millers (1867-1938) - czarist Russian general
- Kārlis Mīlenbahs (1853-1916) - linguist
- Arkadij Naiditsch (1985) - chess player, now resident in Germany
- Marija Naumova (1973) - variety singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 under her stage name Marie N
- Andris Nelsons (1978) - conductor of CBSO
- Andrievs Niedra (1871-1941) - pastor, writer, prime minister of German puppet government (1919)
- Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935) - influential chess player
- Fred Norris (1955) - Radio personality, The Howard Stern Show.
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- Stanislavs Olijars (1979) - athlete (European champion in 110m Hurdles)
- Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) - received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities
- Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939) - athlete (Olympic gold medal in javelin)
- Sandis Ozoliņš (1972) - ice hockey player (NHL), defense
- Valdemārs Ozoliņš (1896-1973) - composer, conductor
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- Artis Pabriks (1966) - Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2007)
- Karlis Padegs (1911-1940) - Graphic artist, painter
- Marian Pahars (1976) - soccer player for Southampton FC, and part of Latvia's national team
- Raimonds Pauls (1936) - popular composer, widely known in Russia
- Jānis Pauļuks (painter) - painter
- Lucia Peka (1912-1991) - Artist of the Latvian Diaspora
- Jekabs Peters (1886-1938) - revolutionary and Soviet Cheka leader
- Brita Petersone - American model
- Kaspars Petrovs (1978) - serial killer
- Vladimirs Petrovs (1907-1943) - chess player
- Andris Piebalgs (1957) - politician, diplomat, European Commissioner for Energy
- Jānis Pliekšāns, 1865-1929) - distinguished Latvian writer, author of a number of poetry collections
- Juris Podnieks (1950-1992) - film director, producer
- Nicolai Poliakovs (1900-1974) - Coco the Clown
- Sandis Prūsis (1965) - athlete, bobsleigh
- Andrejs Pumpurs (1841-1901) - poet, author of Latvian national epic Lāčplēsis
- Jānis Pujāts (1930) - Roman Catholic cardinal
- Einars Repše (1961) - politician
- Lolita Ritmanis (1962, Portland) - orchestrator, composer
- Fricis Rokpelnis (1909-1969) - author
- Mark Rothko (1903-1970) - abstract expressionist painter
- Elza Rozenberga (1865-1943) - poet, playwright, married to Jānis Pliekšāns
- Juris Rubenis (1961) - famous Lutheran pastor
- Mārtiņš Rubenis (1978) - sportsman, bronze medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin
- Brunis Rubess (1926) - businessman
- Inta Ruka (1958) - photographer
- Tania Russof (1974) - pornographic actress
- Uļjana Semjonova (1952) - tallest female basketball player in the Olympic history, 3-time World Champion
- Kārlis Skalbe (1879-1945) - poet
- Baiba Skride (1981) - violinist
- Eduards Smiļģis (1886 -1966) - theatre director, founder of Dailes Theatre
- Konstantin Sokolsky (1904-1991) - romance and tango singer
- Raimonds Staprans (1926) - Latvian/American painter
- Johann Steinhauer (1705-1779) - Latvian Industrialist, Entrepreneur, and Civil Rights Activist.
- Lina Stern (1878-1968) - biologist and social activist
- Henrijs Stolovs (1901-1971) - stamp dealer
- Jānis Streičs (1936) - film director, screenwriter, actor
- Maris Strombergs - BMX cyclist, gold medal winner at 2008 Olympics
- Pēteris Stučka (1865-1932) - author, translator, editor, jurist and educator
- Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950) - prominent chess player
- Stanislavs Svianievičs (1899-1997) - economist and historian
- Viktors Ščerbatihs (1974) - athlete, weightlifter
- Pauls Šīmanis (1876-1944) - Baltic German journalist, politician, activist defending and preserving European minority cultures
- Aleksejs Širovs (1972) - one of the top chess grandmasters in the world today.
- Haralds Silovs, short track and long track speed skater, and first athlete in Olympic history to participate in both short track and long track speed skating
- Andris Šķēle (1958) - politician, Prime Minister of Latvia
- Armands Šķēle - basketball player
- Ernests Štālbergs (1883-1958) - architect, ensemble of the Freedom Monument
- Isāks Nahmans Šteinbergs (1888-1957) - politician, lawyer and author
- Vestards Šimkus (1984) - pianist
- Mihails Tāls (1936-1992) - the 8th World Chess Champion
- Kārlis Augusts Tenisons (1873 - 1962) - known also as Vahindra; 1st Buddhist priest in Latvia and Estonia
- Jānis Roberts Tilbergs (1880-1972) - painter, sculptor
- Aloizs Tumiņš (1938-2008) - boxer, European champion 1961
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- Guntis Ulmanis (1939) - president
- Kārlis Ulmanis (1877-1942) - prime minister
- Jūris Upatnieks (1936-) -physicist, co-inventor of three-dimensional holography
- Romāns Vainšteins (1973) - former pro cyclist, World Road Champion in 2000
- Krišjānis Valdemārs (1825-1891) - public figure, writer, publicist and economist
- Pauls Valdens (1863-1957) - chemist
- Miķelis Valters (1874-1968) - state official, journalist, diplomat
- Valdis Valters - one of the best European basketball players ever, playmaker
- Aleksandrs Vanags (1918-1986) - footballer
- Jānis Vanags (1958-) - Lutheran archbishop
- Jūlijs Vanags (1903-1984) - author and translator
- Alex Vanags-Baginskis (1927) - aviation author/editor
- Pēteris Vasks (1946) - contemporary composer
- Jukums Vācietis (1873-1938) - first commander of the Soviet Army
- Ojārs Vācietis (1933-1983) - poet
- Eduards Veidenbaums (1867-1892) - poet and translator
- Makss Veinreihs (1893-1969) - linguist
- Ed Viesturs (1959) - one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He is one of only 18 people to have climbed all eight-thousander peaks.
- Igors Vihrovs (1978) - gymnast, gold medalist at Sydney Olympics in 2000.
- Edvarts Virza (1883-1940)- famous Latvian writer
- Alvis Vitolinš (1946-1997) - chess master
- Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937) - former president
- Jāzeps Vītols (1863-1948) - composer
- Eduards Veidenbaums (1867-1892) - Latvian poet.
- Māris Verpakovskis (1979) - footballer, FC Dynamo Kyiv
- Aleksandrs Voitkevičs (1963-2006) - chess player
- Kārlis Zāle (1888-1942) - sculptor, author of the Freedom Monument in Riga
- Friedrich Zander (1887-1933) - pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight
- Juris Zarins (1945-) - archaeologist and professor at Missouri State University
- Kārlis Zariņš (Charles Zarine) (1879-1963) - diplomat
- Rihards Zariņš (1869-1939) - graphic artist
- Valdis Zatlers (1955) - president
- Elmars Zemgalis (1923) - chess player
- Gustavs Zemgals (1871-1939) - president
- Imants Zemzaris (1951) - contemporary composer
- Valdis Zeps (1932-1996) - author and linguist, pseudonym Jānis Turbads
- Imants Ziedonis (1933 -) - Latvian poet and folklorist
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- Sergejs Žoltoks (1972-2004) - ice hockey player (NHL), forward
Jewish deaths in Latvia during the holocaust?
The Axis History Forum gives the figure as 77,000. (This does not include Jews transported to Latvia from other countries and killed there. Latvia was used as a killing-field for Jews from other countries, especially Germany).
Where is Latvia Lithuania and Estonia and what sea do they border?
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are located in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Poland is a country in Central Europe.
When did soviet union invade the baltics lithunania Latvia Estonia?
In September of 1939 the Soviets demanded of the three Baltic states that they accept Soviet military bases and a limited number of troops on their territories While all three governments were forced to agree, this formally did not affect the sovereignty of the three states. Full military occupation occurred in June of 1940.
What is the farthest north of these three countries Latvia Lithuania or Estonia?
Estonia is the farthest north of those three countries. They are Baltic Nations.
What is Santa Claus's name in Latvian?
Possibly "Grand Father Frost" (Dyed Moroz) Senis šaltis, Kalėdų senelis.
How much a year does the President of Latvia make?
The president of Lithuania makes around 10,400 US Dollars per year.
What is the standard of living for Latvia?
The Lifestyle of Latvia (Latvija) is very laid back and civilised. They aren't the first people to smile either!
Is Latvia a socialist country?
No.
Not since 1990 or so, and even then its because the USSR (which occupied latvia) collapsed.
Because they thought that it would help boost their economy and attract more tourists.
Who was the Prime Minister of Latvia in 2008?
Dalia GrybauskaitÄ— is the President of Lithuania in 2013. She became the first female President of Lithuania on 2009 July 12. She earned a Ph.D from Moscow and is known for her financial competence, as she has served as Finance Minister and Europena Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget. Her demeanour led people to dub her the 'Iron Lady'; she also has a black belt in Karate.
Latvia was first declared a sovereign state, the Republic of Latvia, on November 18 1918. From 1940 through to the end of World War II, Latvia was occupied first by forces of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany and, at the end of the war, was again under Soviet occupation.
The second Soviet occupation continued until the 1991, when Latvia was able to use the break up of the Soviet Union to re establish its independence.
Latvia is located in which country?
Latvia is an independent country, so it is not located in any other country.
What are people in Latvia called?
Latvians.
We call ourselves as `latvieši` [pronunciation- latvieshi]
What is the English phrase 'morning star' in Latvian?
Auseklis is the Latvian equivalent of the English phrase "morning star."
Specifically, the Latvian word is the name of one of Latvia's favorite ancient deities. The word may be translated as "the one who rises" because Auseklis embodies the beautiful planet Venus. He protects Latvians from evil by his guardian symbol, an eight-pointed star that must be drawn without raising the hand.
What continent is Latvia located?
It's Eurasia. And Latvia itself is a member of European Union.
Actually, the continent Latvia is located in is Europe.
**Eurasia is the land mass that the continents of Europe and Asia are located on.
Latvia has a moderate climate with four distinct seasons.
Average temperatures in the summer are in the high teens (mid twenties during the day) and just below freezing in the winter.
Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and in the next few years invaded much of Europe.
