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USSR nostalgia

The Academy of Sciences was created in 1958 and is 108 meters high.

 

It was built in the Social Classicist style and decorated with several hammer and sickle symbols and Latvian folk ornaments and motifs. It was the first skyscraper in the Republic of Latvia and it's local nicknames are Stalin's birthday cake and the Kremlin.

 

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Uploaded on August 14, 2025
Taken on July 11, 2019