Daugava sunset in Riga.

The River Daugava ( in Latvian ) or Western Dvina (;,, Дзвiна, Dzvina ; ), not to be confused with Northern Dvina, is a river rising in the Valdai Hills, Russia, flowing through Russia, Belarus, and Latvia, draining into the Gulf of Riga in Latvia, an arm of the Baltic Sea.

There are three hydroelectric dams on the Daugava River – Rīgas HES just upstream from Riga or 35 km from the mouth of the river, Ķegums HPP another 35 km further up or 70 km from the mouth, and Pļaviņas HPP another 37 km upstream or 107 km from the mouth.

Today's capital, Riga, founded in 1201 by Teutonic colonists at the mouth of the Daugava, became a strategic base in a papally-sanctioned conquest of the area by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.

With a total length of 1, 020 kilometers, the Daugava ( or Zapadnaya Dvina in its upper reaches ) originates in the Valday Hills in Russia's Tver ' Oblast, meanders through northern Belarus, and then winds through Latvia for 370 kilometers before emptying into the Gulf of Riga.

air and water pollution because of a lack of waste conversion equipment ; Gulf of Riga and Daugava River heavily polluted ; contamination of soil and groundwater with chemicals and petroleum products at military bases

In 1986, it became widely known to the public that the USSR was planning to build another hydroelectric power plant on Latvia's largest river Daugava, and that a decision had been made to build a subway in Riga.

Ogre (; ) ( population 26, 573 in 2000 census ) is the principal town of Ogre District in Central Latvia, 36 km east of the capital Riga, situated at the confluence of the Daugava and Ogre rivers.

Several Soviet tanks appeared on the bank of Daugava river in the Riga Old Town.

The town is situated on the northern bank of the Daugava River 18 kilometers to the south-east of the city of Riga.

For almost all of her playing career, she played for TTT Riga, which was part of Daugava Voluntary Sports Society.

Zemgale is bounded by Kurzeme in the west, the Gulf of Riga, the Daugava river and Vidzeme in the north, Selonia in the east and the Lithuanian border in the south.

It roughly corresponds to the former Alūksne, Cēsis, Gulbene, Limbaži, Madona, Valka, Valmiera districts and parts of Aizkraukle, Ogre and Riga districts north of Daugava river.

Friendship with Riga fostered trade and commerce, and helped to consolidate Lithuanian influence in the Daugava basin, where c. 1307 Polatsk, a major trade post, was annexed by Lithuania.

It briefly occupied the west bank of the Daugava river in Riga and the government of Kārlis Ulmanis had to request military assistance from Lithuania and Estonia.

Riga Castle () is a castle on the banks of River Daugava in Riga, the capital of Latvia.

* Stone Bridge ( Riga ), the bridge across Daugava in Riga, Latvia.

In the summer of 1919 the Lithuanian army, advancing against the Bolsheviks, crossed the Latvian border and reached the Daugava River, remaining in the eastern part of the ethnically-mixed Augšzeme region.

They include the major rivers of north Europe, such as the Oder, the Vistula, the Neman, the Daugava and the Neva.

The Daugava forms part of the international border between Latvia and Belarus.

According to C. Michael Hogan, the Daugava River began experiencing environmental deterioration in the era of Soviet collective agriculture ( producing considerable adverse water pollution runoff ) and a wave of hydroelectric power projects.

The names for the Daugava in other languages ; Dyna – Двина – Дзьвіна – Dźwina-Düna – Dvina ; originated from the Finnic name Vīna-Väinä, for passage-to-the-sea.

Daugava River.

Latvia's principal river, the Daugava River, was at the head of an important mainland route from the Baltic region through Russia into southern Europe and the Middle East used by the Vikings and later Nordic and German traders.

The major rivers include the Daugava, the Lielupe, the Gauja, the Venta and the Salaca.

The largest river is the Daugava, which has been an important route for several thousand years.

The proposed fourth dam, at the town of Daugavpils on the Daugava River, became the rallying point for protest in 1986-87 by hundreds of thousands of Latvians.

The dangers from a lack of cooperation were brought home to Latvians in November 1990, when a polymer complex in Navapolatsk, Belarus, accidentally spilled 128 tons of cyanide derivatives into the Daugava River with no warning to downstream users in Latvia.

Moving in the wake of German merchants who were now following the old trading routes of the Vikings, a monk named Meinhard landed at the mouth of the Daugava river in present-day Latvia in 1180 and was made bishop in 1186.

Though he landed in the mouth of the Daugava in 1200 with only 23 ships and 500 soldiers, the bishop's efforts ensured that a constant flow of recruits followed.

After the subjugation of the Livonians the crusaders turned their attention to the Latgallian principalities to the east, along the Gauja and Daugava rivers.

The war against the Latgallian and Selonian countries along the Daugava waterway started in 1208 by occupation of the Orthodox Principality of Koknese and the Selonian hillfort of Sēlpils.

Moving in the wake of German merchants, a monk named Meinhard had landed at the mouth of the Daugava river in present-day Latvia in 1180.

Also, the 13th-and 14th-century occupation of the western part of the Daugava basin ( closely coinciding with the territory of modern Latvia ) by the German Sword Brethren had a significant influence on the languages ' independent development.

The sea and other bodies of water, including rivers, especially Daugava, seem to mark the boundary between worlds of the living and the dead.

The Saxon-Polish army however had gone into winter camp south of the river Daugava so Charles XII decided to deal with the more immediate Russian threat against Narva.

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SSE Riga charges only a nominal tuition fee, employs modern teaching methods, including group work, summer internships and case studies, and has exchange programs with many leading business schools in Europe, as a result of the Erasmus University Charter and even beyond it, including the City University of Hong Kong and Stanford University.

During the summer campaign, 2nd Baltic was very successful in crushing German opposition, and was able to capture Riga, helping to bottle up some 30 German divisions in Latvia.

In summer 1986 “ Elips ” went on tour to Latvia, were they played together with a Riga based group “ Pilligrim ”.

The family was spending the summer of 1914 on their yacht in the Gulf of Finland and were in Riga when the war broke out.