EU: Daugavpils (1900) through time

Daugavpils 1900–2006 15 photos of this spot

15 photographs taken at the same spot in Daugavpils, spanning 1900–2006 — 14 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Daugavpils, photographed here in 1900, was then known as Dvinsk, a garrison and railway town within the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. The city's position on the Daugava River made it an important commercial and military centre in the region.

EU: Daugavpils (1900) 1900 Daugavpils, photographed here in 1900, was then known as Dvinsk, a garrison and railway town within the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. The city's position on the Daugava River made it an important commercial and military centre in the region.

EU: Daugavpils (1916) 1916 Daugavpils, photographed in 1916 while the city lay within the western borderlands of the Russian Empire during the First World War.

EU: Daugavpils in 1925 1925 Daugavpils, Latvia, in a 1925 photograph. Situated on the Daugava River, the city was one of the largest in interwar Latvia and had a long history as a trading and garrison town.

EU: Daugavpils in 1925 1925 Another 1925 photograph of Daugavpils, Latvia, a Daugava River city that passed through Polish-Lithuanian, Russian, and briefly German control before becoming part of independent Latvia.

EU: Daugavpils. Daugava (1934) 1934 The Daugava River as it flows through Daugavpils, a city in Latvia's Latgale region, is pictured in this 1934 photograph. The river has long shaped the city's layout and its role as a transport and trade point.

EU: Daugavpils. Jaunbūve (1934) 1934 This 1934 photograph shows the Jaunbūve district of Daugavpils, a city in eastern Latvia situated on the Daugava River, whose name translates as 'new building,' reflecting its development as part of the growing city.

EU: Baznīcas laukums. Daugavpils (1935) 1935 Church Square (Baznīcas laukums) in Daugavpils appears in this 1935 photograph, historically a central gathering point in the Latvian city and, as its name suggests, a site associated with the city's churches.

EU: Daugavpils cietokšņa baznīca (1936) 1936 The garrison church of Daugavpils Fortress is shown in this 1936 photograph; the fortress itself was built in the early 19th century as part of the Russian Empire's western defenses along the Daugava River.

EU: Daugavpils cietoksnis (1936) 1936 Daugavpils Fortress, an early 19th-century Russian imperial defensive complex, is pictured in this 1936 photograph, decades after it had ceased its original military function.

EU: Vienības tilts. Daugavpils (1938) [3215] 1938 Vienības tilts, the 'Unity Bridge' spanning the Daugava River at Daugavpils, is shown in this 1938 photograph, connecting the two banks of Latvia's second-largest city.

EU: Vienības tilts. Daugavpils (1938) [3213] 1938 Another 1938 photograph of the Unity Bridge (Vienības tilts), which carries traffic across the Daugava River in Daugavpils and was, at the time, one of the city's key crossings.

EU: Daugavpils. Otrā pasaules kara postījumi (1941) 1941 This 1941 photograph documents damage in Daugavpils inflicted during the Second World War, as fighting reached the Latvian city following the German invasion of the Soviet Union that summer, which caused widespread destruction there.

EU: Daugavpils (1961) 1961 Daugavpils, Latvia's second-largest city, pictured in 1961. Built along the Daugava River in the southeastern Latgale region, the city developed into a major regional industrial and rail hub during the Soviet period, with a population drawn from across the wider region.

EU: Daugavpils teātris (1963) 1963 The municipal theatre in Daugavpils, Latvia, photographed in 1963. Sitting in the Latgale region along the Daugava River, Daugavpils has long been one of Latvia's main cultural and industrial centers outside the capital, Riga, with its own distinct multi-ethnic character.

Daugavpils 2006 A street scene in Daugavpils, a city in southeastern Latvia on the banks of the Daugava River near the borders with Belarus and Lithuania, captured in 2006.