Riga

October 4–8, 2001

The clouds in Riga are always beautiful.

The five hangars in the city centre, the ones where the market is, were airship garages in the early XX century.

There’s one Stalinist skyscraper in Riga. It was a present from Moscow (a similar one was gifted to Warsaw back in the day).

Art Nouveau kitsch.

From above the old town looks a bit like Stockholm.

Pretty pavement.

A plaque with the building’s inventory number survives to this day — everything, including houses, used to have its own USSR ministry of railways inventory number (cf. stairway at the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station).

Hydrant-! and hydrant-?.