Zemitāni Station is a
railway station
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in
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
,
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
on the
Riga–Skulte and
Riga–Lugaži railway lines.
History
Initially the station was called ''Aleksandra Vārti'' (Alexander
Gate
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), after adjacent Arch of Alexander I. This name is known since at least 1889. It was renamed in 1928 in honor of Colonel
Jorģis Zemitāns
Jorģis Zemitāns (23 February 1873, Skrīveri parish – 16 January 1928, Riga) was an army officer and commander of the Latvian Northern Brigade during the Latvian War of Independence.
Biography
Jorģis Zemitāns was born on 23 February 1873 ...
, the commander of the Latvian Northern Brigade during the
Latvian War of Independence.
During the
Nazi occupation of Latvia, the station carried the name ''Riga-Hohe Brücke'' (Riga-High Bridge). Following the
re-occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union in 1944, it carried the name ''Oškalni'', in memory of
pro-Soviet partisan Otomārs Oškalns
Otomārs Aleksandrs Oškalns (12 April 1904 — 1 September 1947) was a prominent Latvian communist and partisan fighter.Ошкалн Отомар Петрович // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. ...
.
In 1991, after the
restoration of Latvian independence, the name Zemitāni was restored.
References
Railway stations in Riga
Railway stations in Latvia opened in the 1870s
Railway stations opened in 1872
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