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Latvians in Russia

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In Russia, Latvians are a small ethnic minority scattered across its various regions. In the 2010 census, 18,979 in Russia identified as ethnic Latvian, down from 28,520 in 2002.

Students of the school at the Latvian embassy in Moscow, 2019

The Latvian Lutheran Christ the Saviour Church in St. Petersburg, 19th century

Memorial plaque on the former building of the Soviet state Latvian theatre Skatuve in Moscow. The theatre was shut down by the Stalinist regime in November 1937, its staff was almost entirely executed during the Great Purge

Burial of Jānis Lepse in the Kremlin Wall

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Prometejs was an organisation of the Latvian diaspora in the interwar Soviet Union. Its members were former Red Latvian riflemen and other Latvian communists and their family members who settled in the USSR after the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War. The organisation was disbanded in the early period of the Great Purge and many of its activists were murdered during the Latvian Operation of the NKVD.

Former headquarters of Prometejs in Moscow, Smolensky Boulevard 3-5

Former building of the Latvian publishing house and other Latvian organisations in Moscow, Strastnoy Boulevard