Also, in 1944 Russia annexed the northeastern border district of Latvia, known as Abrene, including the town of Pytalovo.

Treaty delimiting the boundary with Russia has been signed and ratified in 2007, under the treaty the Abrene district passes to Russia ; ongoing talks over maritime boundary dispute with Lithuania ( primary concern is oil exploration rights )

United with other ethnic Latvian territories, as claimed by the declaration of independence ( ethnic borders as national borders ), they formed the districts of Daugavpils, Ludza, Rēzekne and Jaunlatgale, later Abrene district.

In 1944, at the beginning of the second occupation of Latvia by the USSR, the eastern municipalities of the Abrene district were incorporated into the Russian Federation.

All these areas during the interwar constituted the eastern part of the Abrene district of Latvia.

The Abrene district () was an administrative district in the Republic of Latvia with an area of 4292 square kilometers, formed in 1925 from the northern part of the Ludza district and the western part of the Ostrov region as the Jaunlatgale ( New Latgale ) district, but this was renamed Abrene in 1938.

The district included the towns of Balvi and Abrene and 14 villages, and the civil parishes ( Latvian: pagasti ) comprising the district were reorganized thrice ( there were 12 in 1929, 13 in 1935, and 15 in 1940 ).

This part of the former Abrene district is now part of Russia as the Pytalovsky District of Pskov Oblast, bordering Latvia.

" Abrene region " in current usage very often treats the area joined to Russia as though it had comprised the entire district, which can be misleading ; nearly three-quarters of the former district are in Latvia, but many treatments of the transfer of the eastern pagasti cite interbellum demographic statistics for the whole of the region, rather than by civil parish.

During the interwar period it was the administrative center of the Abrene district.

In Latvia the opposition, primarily the organization Abrenian Union ( consisting of people deported from Pytalovo and surroundings, sometimes referred to as the Association of Abrene Residents ), lobbied for nationwide referendum on such treaty as they saw it as violating the constitution of Latvia ( principle of territorial unity ).

On January 16, 1945, the area was transferred from the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic to Pskov Oblast of the Russian SFSR, Abrene was renamed Pytalovo, and Pytalovsky District with the administrative center in Pytalovo was created.

The Latvian Foreign Ministry has reiterated " that Latvia has no territorial claims to the Russian Federation ," however, and though there is some opposition ( particularly among right wing parties ) to formally ceding the Abrene region, surveys show that most Latvians don't believe that the transferred territory will ever again be administered by Latvia.

As recently as 1944, the U. S. S. R. granted Russia the Abrene region on the Livonian frontier, which Latvia contested after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

By the Latvian-Soviet Riga Peace Treaty of 1920, a part of Ostrovsky Uyezd, including Pytalovo, was passed to Latvia and the town was known since then by its Latvian name Jaunlatgale ( until 1938 when its official name was changed to Abrene ).

In 1940, Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union, and the eastern part of Abrene District became a part of Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.

6 eastern civil parishes – Purvmalas ( Bakovo ), Linavas ( Linovo ), Kacēnu ( Kachanovo ), Upmalas ( Upmala ), Gauru ( Gavry ) and Augšpils ( Vyshgorodok ), as well as the town of Abrene ( a total area of 1293. 6 square kilometers with 35, 524 inhabitants ) – were joined to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1944.

The Abrene region was long a point of contact and friction between the Finno-Ugric, Baltic, and Slavic languages, cultures, tribes, and countries.

Strategic concerns also played a part, because of an important railway junction within the Abrene region.

The town of Abrene itself, which developed around the Pytalovo railroad station, had 1, 242 inhabitants, 484 of them ethnic Latvians.

As a consequence, Russia scrapped the border agreement, as it saw this as attempt to prolong debate on Abrene.

* Dietrich Loeber, “ The Russian-Latvian Territorial Dispute Over Abrene ” in The Parker School Journal of East European Law ( 1995, Vol.

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