Rally and demonstration in Riga (1989)

View of the rally in Riga at the monument to the fighters of the 1905 revolution on the bank of the Daugava.

Rally participants with national Latvian flags and funeral wreaths walk along one of the streets of the old town.

Faces of the rally participants.

View of the monument and panorama of the rally.

Rally participants with flags, funeral wreaths and banners in Latvian walk in a column to the rally venue.

Wreaths with funeral ribbons with inscriptions in Latvian and Georgian at the pedestal of the monument, people stand with bowed banners.

Laying of a wreath in memory of the victims of the 1962 shooting in Novocherkassk.

One of the speakers, holding a funeral wreath in his hands, speaks in front of the microphone.

Wreaths at the pedestal of the monument, people stand with bowed banners.

Faces of the rally participants (panorama).

Laying of flowers at the foot of the monument.

Participants in a workers' demonstration walk in a row, elbows linked, banners with slogans above the column, faces of the demonstrators.

The demonstration column moves along the streets of the old city, people carry banners with economic demands in their hands.

View of the demonstration column (top).

Faces of the rally participants.

The face of a man speaking at the rally, the man finishes his speech and lays a wreath in memory of the victims of the shooting in Novocherkassk at the foot of the monument.

Faces of the rally participants.

View of the sculptural group of the monument.

Panorama of the rally.

People listen to another speaker.

The face of an elderly man.

Faces of the rally participants.

People stand with banners and flowers in their hands (panorama).

A banner with a slogan calling for a fight for workers' rights.

Rally participants hold banners with slogans in their hands, a panorama of the faces of the rally participants.

Faces of the rally participants.

View of the rally.

View of the Powder Tower in Riga, a column of rally participants with Latvian national flags and banners passes by.

A column of rally participants moves along one of the streets of the old town.

Carnations in the hands of rally participants passing by.

The column moves along the Daugava embankment, people carry flowers and banners with slogans.

View of the rally on the Daugava embankment near the monument to the fighters of the 1905 revolution.

Panorama of the rally.