Photographs of The West Side of Riga
across the Daugava River
Lake in Uzvaras Park  | 
    
The Victory Monument in Uzvaras Park The monument
consisted of a 260ft / 79m pillar 
      decorated with five golden stars, each symbolizing a year of the World War II. The obelisk was flanked on either side by a bronze statue of three soldiers and a statue of a woman representing the "Motherland." Dismantled in August 2022 as a symbol glorifying the USSR occupation of Latvia.  | 
    
The Victory Monument in Uzvaras Park  | 
    
The Victory Monument in Uzvaras Park  | 
    
![]() The Victory Monument in Uzvaras Park A Monument to
the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga 
      from the German Fascist Invaders, unofficially known as the Victory Memorial, was a memorial complex in Victory Park, erected in 1985 to commemorate the Soviet Army's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II  | 
    
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Flower Stalls at the Agenskalns Market  | 
    
Waterbirds on Maras Dikis  | 
    
Holy Trinity Orthodox Churchin the Bolderāja districtof Riga | 
    
Riga
Ferry port  across Daugava River from Kipsala  | 
    
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