Video interview with Ēvalds Inspēters

Starting from the late 19th century, hundreds of Latvian families voluntarily moved to the Russian provinces to get their own plot of land, which at that time in Latvia could only be bought or leased for a disproportionately high and unaffordable price for the majority of country people. One of the emigrants’ destinations was the Ufa Province about 2,500 km away, where there was a lot of available land at the time. Read more>