In Soviet Latvia he achieved Candidate Master title in 1948 and Master title in 1964.
MV Sovetskaya Latviya (Soviet Latvia), a transport ship operated by the Soviet industrial concern Dalstroy, a part of the NKVD's forced labour system.
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Sovetskaya Latviya (Soviet Latvia), a Russian-language daily newspaper published in the Latvian SSR
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In 1976 he moved to Daugava Rīga, the top club in Soviet Latvia which at the time played in the second division of Soviet football.
Having influences by documentary photographers, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, group "A" used a reportage style to document everyday life of Soviet Latvia, very often creating photographs full of criticism.
The Russian-language sister publication to Cīņa published by the LKP was the daily Sovetskaya Latviya (Soviet Latvia); while the daily Padomju Jaunatne (Soviet Youth) was the newspaper of the Latvian Young Communist League.