In this video I explore an old abandoned airport in Riga, Latvia. The Spilve airport was built in 1939 and has a rich history including being destroyed and rebuilt twice. I take you on a walk through of what is now called Spilve airport and we examine the beauty and the destruction.
Some of the Spilve airport history:
- During the occupation of Latvia on June 17, 1940, at 12.00, 6 tanks took part in the occupation of Spilve airfield, but on June 18, airplanes of the USSR Air Force landed at Spilve airfield.
- In 1940, passenger flights to Tallinn, Leningrad and Moscow were resumed. German Junkers and Soviet aircraft were used for the flights.
- On the first day after the attack on the USSR on June 22, 1941, German aviation bombed Spilve airfield. The airport's hangars were destroyed, and later the airport was reconstructed for German military aviation in 1941-1944. Spilve airport was used as a military airport in.
- A secret report on the use of "prisoner labour" (mostly Jewish civilians) in the German Aviation industry indicates that approximately 1,000 of these "prisoners" were forced to work at rebuilding Spilve airport.
- On October 27, 1941, Lufthansa resumed civil flights to Riga and Helsinki.
- On October 11, 1944, Spilve Airport was again destroyed. With the advancing Soviet troops at the outskirts of Riga, German artillery takes up positions at the edge of Spilve airfield, along the Ilguciems road. While their artillery shells the Soviets, German sappers explode buried explosive charges every 20 metres along Spilve's runways. Then they dynamite the control tower, hangars and all other outbuildings on the airfield. Civilians still in Riga reported hearing detonations and watching large fires burning, starting very early in the morning and continuing for hours until the demolition was complete. The Soviets capture Riga on October 13.
More info here: www.spilve.org/
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