
	Where results make sense

Topic: Karosta

Related Topics

Ludza

Liepaja

William Gibson

William Gibson (novelist)

Pattern Recognition (novel)

List of cities in Latvia

	Karosta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karosta (from Latvian Kara Osta, War Port) is an area north of Liepaja in western Latvia, on the Baltic sea.
		Karosta (56°33′0″N, 21°0′20″E) was constructed as a naval base for the Russian Tsar, and later served as a base for the Soviet Navy.
		At its height Karosta was home to over 20,000 people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karosta (232 words)

	[RAM]5
		Karosta is a recently abandoned soviet military base on the Baltic coast, and its population is made up of the people who decided to move in to the empty apartment blocks, and the Russians who stayed behind after the soviet withdrawl.
		Karosta kids are considered special, creative, crazy (and maybe a little dangerous).The Karosta kids are living in the gap, and the freedom, between Russian withdrawal and the arrival of NATO or property developers or whatever comes next.
		Karosta is a tough place but one with a real magical character that leaves a strong impression on people who find their way their and get to see that tough doesn't mean cold all the way through.
	rixc.lv /ram/en/public06.html (2169 words)

	Briede, K@2 Karosta - Under the Surface
		Karosta was built by order of the Russian Tzar Alexander III - this region was under imperial Russia, and he decided to build here a military port in the Baltic sea region.
		During that time, Karosta was a closed district, and civilians from Liepaja (or elsewhere) could not enter - there were guards at the bridge, and people were permitted to enter only with special permits.
		Karosta is a part of the many segments of the film.
	subsol.c3.hu /subsol_2/contributors0/k2text.html (2804 words)

	RIXC
		Liepajas Karosta was built by order of the Russian Tsar Alexander III as a military port in the Baltic region.
		Karosta as autonomous city environement emerged at the end of 19th century and at the beginning of 20th.
		After the Soviet occupation of Latvia Karosta became a military base housing some 25,000 and was closed to civilians by a fortress wall was build all around the whole city.
	rixc.lv /reader/txt/txt.php?id=214&l=en (1378 words)

	Liepaja > Karosta (Naval port)
		Karosta (Navy harbour) is a northern neighborhood which occupies one third of
		Many streets and houses of Karosta are now empty, as the population dropped from 25 -30 thousand people till 1994, to approximately 7 thousand people living there today.
		Karosta is rich with its geographical location on the Baltic sea shore, with its forests, architecture contrasts (such as a soviet style housing block nearby a gorgeous orthodox cathedral), and different people - local inhabitants, tourists, artists and militarists; beaches, fortresses and sunsets - all together!
	www.liepaja.lv /print.php?id=1804 (746 words)

	:: soundtransit :: artist info
		Karosta, LV Tide, wind and temperature in a certain balance, creating small and complex interactions of air, ice and water...some strange creature sleeping just below the surface, bubbling lava fields, mineral waters flowing deep inside the earth...
		Karosta, LV Latvian winters can be archetypal in their elemental power, and in the weeks in Karosta we were exposed to wind, snow, rain and ice.
		Karosta, LV When I discovered that a crew of three, working 24 hours a day to chop wood, were required to heat the house we stayed in, I felt more than a little bit aristocratic.
	soundtransit.nl /search/artistinfo.php?id=3 (630 words)

	Liepaja - where more than wind is born
		The city’s most distinguished feature is no doubt Karosta, a former Soviet military base (although it was originally constructed for the Russian Tsar) that today sits vacant and windswept, save for a stretch of Communist-era housing blocks.
		Karosta has become a popular tourist attraction – including a bizarre KGB prison overnight stay – tapping into the current trend to seek out Soviet relics and geographical oddities.
		According to Abols, the Karosta industrial park is about logistics: “Our multifunctional, non-freezing port is just one of Liepaja’s attractive features, in addition to the city’s Special Economic Zone, modern railway system and airport.
	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/15128 (730 words)

	visiblesound :: karosta
		Since the turn of the 20th century, Karosta and its parent city Liepaja have figured prominently in histories of the Baltics.
		Additionally, the area around Karosta is infamous in Holocaust histories for open executions of Jews during the German occupation.
		Currently, the port of Karosta has been declared an environmental disaster by NATO due to the prescence of scuttled Soviet ships in the harbor and large piles of lead-acid batteries on land.
	www.sarako.net /visiblesound/karosta.html (188 words)

	Karostaproject
		We left Karosta on January 9, and three hours of bad bus music and a half pint of brandy later, arrived in Riga.
		The harbor of Karosta is surrounded by piers, and completely froze into jagged, vertical shards of ice during the -25*C weather.
		you told me also http://farah.dyne.org contributed to inspire you for karosta, this has been great to hear for me and now i see you did very much to definine something that could be considered a new kind of online art which is reconsidering its position within the present world.
	karosta.edworks.net (1225 words)

	EXYZT:KarostA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Labichampi (Labi = well, good) is an exyzt proposition to Karosta neighbourhood (a former military soviet area on the baltic coast in latvia).
		Nowadays this situation in karosta has changed with the years but social and economical issues still need to be improved.
		Aware that a political strategy is already engaged towards progressive destruction of the old soviet blocks in the next ten years, we want to start a short term project to prompt react to current and local issues.
	www.exyzt.org /wakka.php?wiki=KarostA&show_comments=1 (288 words)

	unsere Korrespondentin
		The house we are staying at was once the headquarters of the Baltic navy in Karosta.
		Karosta was built at the end of the 19th century by Tsar Alexander III as part of the military reinforcement of the national borders.
		Karosta was closed even to the citizens of Liepaja.
	www.antjeschiffers.de /korrespondentin/en/latvija.htm (1363 words)

	Artfactories - Culture & Information Center K@2 - Karosta - Liepaja
		Karosta is a very special place which has experienced Imperial Russia (Russian Tzar Alexander III built it to be a military harbour), the Soviet era (as a closed military base with 25.000 militaries - inhabitants today 7.000) and now with great suspense waiting for new Western experiences to come...
		Today Karosta is a place where many "everyday tourists" are heading to take a look at what Misery is like...
		The aim with this is to give a chance for inhabitants in Karosta to work in a creative way and provoke this creativity through culture activities.
	www.artfactories.net /article.php3?id_article=97 (710 words)

	Karosta - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		New: Biocrawler.com now with the option to add inline videos.
		Karosta was constructed as a naval base for the Russian Tsar, and later served as a base for the Soviet Navy.
		You can find it there under the keyword Karosta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karosta)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karostaandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Karosta (296 words)

	networked_performance: Practice
		In Karosta an audience of local people and workshop participants was led out in the dark through the woods to a clearing marked out by a circle of candles where Cheryl L'Hirondelle Waynohtêw was singing.
		Cheryl L'Hirondelle [CA] and Mari Keski-Korsu (FI) were monitored at K@2 after their trace went static for several hours (as they got more and more drunk on a beach with a couple of locals until one of their wives turned up).
		Over the course of the workshop a whole sequence of journey traces was generated, enough to build up a subjective map of Karosta.
	www.turbulence.org /blog/archives/000266.html (1668 words)

	IETM « on the move »
		The meeting in Karosta in May 2003 was the first attempt of a primarily Nordic based network to include participants from Central and South Europe to discuss collaborative projects together in the future.
		After dinner in Karosta, and more informal discussions on the beach and over drinks back at the cultural center that evening, the formal meeting and working day began early in the morning on May 14.
		After the very short meeting in Karosta, we were all invited to observe the Art and Communication festival on May 16 and 17 organized by RIXC, and many of the discussions started in Karosta continued informally in Riga during lunches and dinners between the festival events.
	www.on-the-move.org /DE/share_detail.lasso?thread_id=18 (1061 words)

	EXYZT:KarostaPage
		Basically, we would propose to get in contact with karosta urban and cultural context by producing a urban scenario based on karosta protagonists, inhabitants and architectural context.
		This project would be based on some workshops in karosta that would lead us to meet people from the district, and understand its specific context.
		To create an alternative solution for improving the current situation in Karosta district by means of forming a body for culture, education, social and ethnic integration and cooperation.
	www.exyzt.org /wakka.php?wiki=KarostaPage (870 words)

	Liepaja - Sightseeing - Karosta Latvia - In Your Pocket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Ironically, the massive fortifications constructed on the coast were dynamited before the First World War even began as a result of the friendship treaty signed between Germany and Russia in 1908.
		The complex of imposing brick buildings and barracks became known as the Kara osta (war port) during the first Latvian republic and is now simply called Karosta.
		The Soviets also used the base and left their mark in typical fashion in the form of ugly concrete apartment blocks surrounding the soaring Orthodox Cathedral, many of which are now abandoned.
	www.inyourpocket.com /latvia/liepaja/en/category?cid=58529&chid=489 (749 words)

	Liepaja Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		A detention facility until 1997, ghostly Karosta Prison was used by the Soviets, Nazis and Latvians as a military prison.
		Off limits to everyone - including Latvians - during the Soviet occupation, the Karosta area is the site of a former Russian naval base encompassing about one-third of Liepāja's city limits.
		From aging army barracks to ugly Soviet-style, concrete apartment blocks (many abandoned), evidence of the occupation still remains, but the Karosta of today is a vibrant place with a bohemian air.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/europe/latvia/liepaja?poi=1000080127 (205 words)

	Karosta Prison Youth Hostels Liepaja Latvia Youth Hostels Liepaja
		Karosta Prison Youth Hostels Liepaja Latvia Youth Hostels Liepaja
		Stay overnight in the Karosta guardhouse lodging (2 beds in one room).
		It is good to know that there is only cold water in the Karosta prison and that the WC is made in a real Soviet prison toilet style.
	www.realadventures.com /listings/1037102.htm (297 words)

	mutantfilm
		The landscape in Karosta, Latvia consists of remnants of the Soviet occupation and itÕs military and naval operations.
		When the Soviets departed in 1991, the population of this enclosed militarized zone fell from 25,000 to a few thousand in a matter of days.
		Episode One is a at rough cut stage and Episode Two is planned to be developed and Directed by the novice film makers themselves in Lativa.
	www.mutantfilm.com /karosta (317 words)

	Artfactories - Multicultural festival in Karosta, May - September 2004
		It is planned to carry out a study within the framework of the project to find out the prejudices of Karosta inhabitants and the unclear questions in relation to Latvia joining the EU and the information needed for businesses.
		In September the seminars for the entrepreneurs and volunteers - the two most active groups of Karosta community - will be organized as the follow-up of the study results.
		Through several previous projects and daily cooperation with Karosta Mini City Hall more than 20 Karosta volunteers have already proved their interest to facilitate the development of their neighborhood and solution of its problems, providing individual approach in the information dissemination to the most sensitive community groups - pensioners, the unemployed etc.
	www.artfactories.net /article.php3?id_article=885 (561 words)

	[Locative] 'codey' things to do in Karosta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This ios consistent with the mapping-out Karosta theme within which the workshop itself will be nestled as a K at 2 sheltered project in July.
		While we may not be able to leave behind mobile WiFi device for people to keep making this virtual graffiti, we could at least create a nice flash map on K at 2's site through which people could access this augmented space...
		On the subject of mapping we could perhaps think of visualizing a virtual Karosta that could input geo-annoted points.
	db.x-i.net /locative/2003/000019.html (313 words)

	Worldandnation: Tourists lock in to Latvia's Soviet era
		Tourists and locals alike can experience it in the prison at the Karosta, or "war port," in the coastal city of Liepaja.
		Built originally as a military hospital in 1903, the red-brick building was converted to a prison two years later and used until 1997.
		Even Karosta, for five decades a restricted military zone, now has an artists' commune occupying a former military headquarters and an art gallery nearby displaying their work.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/09/12/news_pf/Worldandnation/Tourists_lock_in_to_L.shtml (642 words)

	COMMENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The workshop also utilized real-time mobile networking devices, location aware through GPS (courtesy of the Waag Society), for tracing the movements in real time, the visualization of which was created by Pall Thayer in flash, inspired by the Waag Society's KeyWorx software and a.php script created by Jaanis Putrams.
		Teams conceived of metaphors for expressing media spatially and, guided by local residents, ventured throughout Karosta collecting media samples of the environment and creating annotations with GPS receivers.
		Karosta, Latvian for 'war port', was built by order of the Russian Tzar Alexander III as a military port in the Baltic region.
	frequencyclock.montevideo.nl /pMachineFree2.2.1/comments.php?id=26_0_1_0_C7 (949 words)

	Liepaja Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Karosta is a few kilometers from the city, and can be visited for free by intrepid travellers.
		I went in many old buildings, and walked along the places where nuclear submarines stayed ; this place was completly forbidden in the past, just a few years ago, and know it appears like a very strange post cold war desert....
		I went there with the musician Louie Fontaine, owner of the Hotel Fontaine, and we spend all the afternoon around in his white soviet style Volga Gaz 62.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Latvia/Liepaja/Things_To_Do-Liepaja-BR-1.html (625 words)

	Filippa Arrias exhibits paintings at Millesgåården, Stockholm
		Filippa Arrias displays paintings from her visits in Karosta, Latvia´s west coast.
		Filippa Arrias has worked in Karosta togeher with Swedish and Latvian artists.
		Her work has resulted in a number of portraits from the area and their inhabitants.
	www.enjoyscandinavianart.com /arf/english_millesgarden.html (127 words)

	Evacuation - I am for peace II
		Since the Latvian Government and US Special Forces have made a timely announcement regarding the security measures due to be enforced during the US President’s visit, residents of Rīga are being offered political asylum in Karosta.
		During Bush’s visit, those seeking asylum in Karosta will neither subjected to passport controls, nor trial by metal detector.
		A local soup kitchen will be open for business as well as Karosta’s "Mobile Sauna”.
	www.esparmieru.lv /eng/karaosta.html (143 words)

	Karosta Hostel (K at 2) - Liepaja, Latvia - Hostel Review
		Liepaja Hostels > Karosta Hostel (K at 2)
		Karosta Hotel (K at 2) has to be one of the coolest hostels in Europe.
		It is a huge art gallery and artists' residence first and a hostel second, so you'll be hanging out with tons of crazy cutting edge artsy people like moviemakers, photographers, and other right-brained folks who spice up any venue.
	www.hostelz.com /hostel/43332-Karosta-Hostel-(K-at-2) (528 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)