Riga, capital of Latvia, and its trams in 1987, shortly before achieving independence. Photos by Dutch traveller Hans Oerlemans

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1. Beautiful trams.

2. Never been to Riga. People keep telling me to go, because it’s a beautiful city.

3. Trams. The photographer likes trams.

4. Same Polish streetcars, same Yuzmash trolleys in Sofia Bulgaria ,from same year . You bring me in my childhood.

5. *restoring independence

   Latvia was never legally a part of the Soviet Union, it was a sovereign state illegally occupied by the USSR.

6. I love seeing photos like this.

7. the trams are travelling around!

   they drive on rails not on the ground!

   they weight quite many kilograms!

   I like so very much the trams.

8. Nice pickup tram on pic no. 11. Ideal for transporting crops like potatoes.

   Btw. Was Latvian language/writings even visible in public areas in Latvian SSR? Or it was flat out russification?

9. I see some [Tatra trams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T3), some of which are still in use in my city, Bucharest

10. Some trolleybuses too! And some nice examples of trolleybus wires crossing over tram wires in 5, 10 and 16!

11. Second photo brings me nostalgia for my childhood in the 1980s in Sofia, for some reason. I even downloaded it, it’s like I remember such rainy day with trams and all that (even though our trams in Sofia were different).

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