Each donation helps to ensure the Museum's activities allowing it to function and provide information for people from all over the world The Museum is grateful to each donor and invites everyone to contribute researchers at the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia have identified eight unknown persons who were arrested and buried in a mass grave in Ulbroka in February 1941 11 were identified in the spring and summer of 1944 The remaining eight people were not identified before Latvia was overcome by the second Soviet occupation a historian at the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia been able to find the other names of the KGB’s victims by investigating the case files of people arrested in 1940 which are kept at the Latvian State Archives in Latvia did not just mean the Soviet Union taking taking control of the state the arrest of real and imagines opponents to the Soviet regime but also the “official” killings of the Soviet occupation regime At least 186 residents of Latvia were sentenced to death in Riga Immediately after the Soviet troops fled and the German occupation forces arrived in July 1941 the inhabitants found the burial places of these victims in Baltezers pits with the bodies of people who had been shot dead the remains of 23 people were found in four pits 11 were identified during the exhumation as readable documents or soviet ‘court’ judgements were found in the pockets of their clothes the identities of the remaining 8 were unclear all the victims were buried in the ‘White Crosses’ burial ground in Riga Forest Cemetery was laid to rest in the Brethren Cemetery on 6 May.   Latvian society learned about the Ulbroka burial site on Saturday 29 April 1944 in the newspaper ‘Tēvija’ in the publication ‘They Also Accuse’ as well as reporting on the arrival of General Kārlis Gopper’s son to the place of the exhumation It also mentioned that those who were killed had their arms tied behind their backs. The were killed by one or two shots to the head, with the exception of Arturs Salnājs, who was killed by having the right side of his lower jaw smashed. One of the unidentified bodies was found with two shots to the back of the head and one to the right side of the back. The article ‘They Also Accuse’ can be read at www.periodika.lv (in Latvian) The victims in Ulbroka were sentenced in the Baltic Special Military District (PribOVO) war tribunals 2 Russians and also one Estonian were killed The youngest daughter was only five months old at the time of her father’s arrest 7 of those who had been shot were described as having been deported according to KGB orders the exhibition “History of KGB Operations in Latvia” in Riga but the project is being researched and the exhibition is being restored training for new guides will begin and guided tours of the expanded “History of KGB Operations in Latvia” exhibition will resume 11 of the victims were identified by documents found in the pockets of their clothes or copies of court decisions which were eligible after investigation of the criminal cases the following were also identified: The article “We Also Accuse” in the newspaper Tēvija May 4th – Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia Convocation of the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Latvia Museum visited by delegation from the Defence Committee of the Swedish Riksdag Museum visited by Ambassador of New Zealand More Take note – story published 2 years and 2 months ago The State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD) said that the call was received at 18:27 about a fire in a four-story residential house in Ulbroka firefighters found that the building was engulfed in a lot of smoke and several people could not get out of it At least 40 firefighters with eight road tankers and three climbers were working at the scene Seven Emergency Medical Service (NMPD) medical crews Two apartments and a corridor in an area of 92 square meters were burning on the second floor of the social apartment house but one was found dead in one of the burning apartments NMPD delivered three victims to the hospital while two received help at the site of the event The spread of the flames was contained Wednesday evening around 20:30 Work continued afterward until past midnight Photo: Latvijas TelevīzijaPhoto: Latvijas TelevīzijaPhoto: Latvijas TelevīzijaPhoto: Latvijas TelevīzijaPhoto: Latvijas TelevīzijaPhoto: Latvijas TelevīzijaPhoto: Latvijas TelevīzijaPhoto: Latvijas TelevīzijaPhoto: Latvijas RadioPhoto: Latvijas RadioPhoto: Latvijas RadioPhoto: Latvijas Radio Select text and press Ctrl+Enter to send a suggested correction to the editor Select text and press Report a mistake to send a suggested correction to the editor Take note – story published 5 years and 8 months ago The Environmental Protection and Regional Development Ministry announced that after consulting with 114 municipalities it has drafted a conceptual report on the administrative territorial distribution of municipalities as part of the planned municipal reform eng.lsm.lv reported previously that the original plan was for Latvia to have 35 municipalities, but on August 12 it was revealed that the ministry had decided to add another one to the map The ministry came to the decision after analysing population dynamics and mobility patterns as well as receiving data-based alternative proposals Consequently, the new administrative territorial model introduced in the conceptual report proposes to reduce the number of municipalities from 119 to 36 The new municipality will be situated in Pierīga and have Ulbroka as its administrative center. Ulbroka municipality will absorb the former Gārkalne, Ropaži and Stopiņi municipalities The town of Vangaži will be separated from Inčukalns municipality and merged with the Ulbroka municipality The changes will also affect Salaspils municipality which will remain within the previously proposed borders The document has been sent to the Ministries of Finance and Justice the Cross-Sectoral Coordination Center and the Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments for approval The ministry expects to put the conceptual report before the Cabinet of Ministers in September Take note – story published 1 year and 8 months ago It is planned to build the cycling infrastructure at a length of 16.6 kilometers (km) on three main cycling routes: The municipality explained that the development of road infrastructure is an important instrument for reducing the share of motorized mobility by promoting the availability of “green” mobility as an environmentally friendly mobility alternative the Rīga urban area lacks a single cycling network and the infrastructure has been developed in fragments It is therefore necessary to create a single and continuous high-speed cycling infrastructure which would also reduce the number of accidents The project is scheduled to be implemented by May 2026 The total budget for the project is EUR 25.63 million The majority is funded by the Recovery and Resilience Fund – EUR 21.18 million which will be covered by a loan to the Treasury