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SOVIET MONUMENTS & RELICS IN RIGA (with KGB Building)
Discover the emotionally charged heritage of the Soviet period in Latvian history from ground level and from 16th floor viewing platform on the top of Stalinist skyscraper.
Duration 3.5 hours
Private tour available in English, Swedish, German, Russian
Group tour pricing from 246 EUR per person
Highlights
See Stalinist building style in it's best (or worst) in the highrise building of Academy of Sciences
Enjoy the hidden gem of it's observation deck that offers great views of the city and the river including Brutalist TV Tower
Visit the train station where the mass deportations to Siberia started
Drive and walk through typical Soviet ''sleeping district''
See still emotionally charged controversial and massive Soviet Monument of the Liberators
Visit KGB Building museum (Cheka Cellars), the scariest place in Soviet Riga
Description
You will see the first skyscraper of Riga - Collective Farmers’ Palace, now housing Latvian Academy of Sciences. You will head up to the 17th floor platform (elevator), from which you'll admire views of Riga. This height opens great view of another Soviet creation - the Television Tower.
You will cross the river Daugava via Soviet built Stone Bridge.
Railway Station Tornakalns was the last stop on Latvian land for thousands to be deported in Soviet extermination and deportation campaigns.
A bit further a large field is dominated by Riga most controversial architectural ensamble, Soviet Monument to Liberators.
Now it is time to see the living suburbs of Soviet citizens still used by majority of population – prefabricated concrete panel housing units with similar flats, schools and kindergartens, bearing the same look across all previous USSR.
We will bring you to the previous KGB (Soviet Secret police) building for locally guided tour of Cheka prison and torture cellars and upper floor offices.
Your guide will inform you about Riga canteens & bars, furnished like a Soviet flat for the taste of Soviet style dinner!
You will cross the river Daugava via Soviet built Stone Bridge.
Railway Station Tornakalns was the last stop on Latvian land for thousands to be deported in Soviet extermination and deportation campaigns.
A bit further a large field is dominated by Riga most controversial architectural ensamble, Soviet Monument to Liberators.
Now it is time to see the living suburbs of Soviet citizens still used by majority of population – prefabricated concrete panel housing units with similar flats, schools and kindergartens, bearing the same look across all previous USSR.
We will bring you to the previous KGB (Soviet Secret police) building for locally guided tour of Cheka prison and torture cellars and upper floor offices.
Your guide will inform you about Riga canteens & bars, furnished like a Soviet flat for the taste of Soviet style dinner!
What’s included & not included
3.5 h private guide services
3.5 h private tour vehicle
Viewing platform entry ticket
KGB Building (Cheka Cellars) Museum ticket - 10 EUR per person
Gratuities to the guide and driver are not included in the tour price
Meeting point
Riga
Mundus Travels