USSR Latvia Riga old COVER

The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR; Latvian: Latvijas Padomju Sociālistiskā Republika; Russian: Латвийская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Latviyskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also known as Soviet Latviaor Latvia, was a republic of the Soviet Union.

POSTAL HISTORY embraces every aspect of postal services includes the collection of stamps and postal labels on envelopes or 'cover'. Some collectors think that postal history should be confined to either the pre-stamp period (i.e. before 1840), or at least to the 19th century. Postal historians with a broader outlook recognise that postal history is still being made. The use of, for instance, emergency provisional stamps on cover is a vital part of philately.

Latvia. The first stamps in 1918 were printed on German army maps. From 1944 stamps of the USSR were used, and in 1991 the first stamps of the independent republic were issued, some overprinted on USSR. Declared in May 1990 that Soviet occupation in 1940 was unlawful, and independence conceded by USSR in September 1991