Ventspils is a coast town in West Latvia, considered wealthy, tidy and boring place. These are a few photos of the city centre that slightly compromise this image - old signs of fishermen's club and hospital, street water pump, weird old house and closed glass bottle recycling point.
This old plate found in Liepāja, West Latvia says "in case of emergency after 6pm call...". It seems that in Latvian version someone has changed the time to "after 7pm".
Bus stations in rural areas usually have a vintage look. The first photo depicts the station in Preiļi, while the map is from the station Dagda, both East Latvia.
I already posted photos of some shops in Latgale region of East Latvia. Here goes a few more. Usually they are called just "shops" (veikals) and not by some name because in most cases they don't need one as there is no competition - there is no other shop nearby. Also, most of them who haven't changed the place just kept the old time sign "veikals" for ages.
It is very rare to find a canteen sign in Russian language (stolovaya) in Latvia, but there is at least one near Malta, East Latvia. And it also seems that this place actually still operates on working days.
I already posted the glory to labor mural and cinema Komjaunietis of Dagda earlier in June, but there are quite a few more interesting things to notice in this town - old signs for photo service, sewing accessories shop and department store, culture house with its mother-like ornament, another monument with a mother and child, gas station and a Soviet time social ad that says "here the defective stove was heated".
There's abandoned factory in Malta, a small town in Latvia. Quite a few interesting relicts, such as the information desk for their local cinema and culture house, or some decorative installation from 1990 that feature not only nationalistic symbols but also a hammer and sickle.
PMK, written in Cyrillic, stands for Передвижная Механизированная Колонна or "mobile mechanized column" in English, today simply to be called a building company. Dozens of such PMK's were building houses for factory workers all around Soviet Union. Often the workers would use red bricks to built in some communist slogans but in this house in the outskirts of Daugavpils, Latvia they decided to include their own "company's" name.
There were quite a few pioneer summer camps in Jaunstropi, the district of Daugavpils, Latvia, but today some of these camps have been turned into guest houses. In one of those guest houses still stands a small monument with pioneers.
These are a couple of old public toilet signs found in Valmiera and Riga. 
Surprisingly the cinema in Dagda, East Latvia still has its Soviet times name - Komjaunietis which means a komsomolec, a member of the Communist Union of Youth. However, despite the fresh paint it is not clear whenever the cinema still works.
There goes another built-in slogan of Soviet era - glory to labor. Written in Russian and found in Dagda, East Latvia.
Seda is a small town in Latvia built in early 1950s for workers of peat extraction industry. The town is famous for Stalinist architecture and also for the fact that most inhabitants are Russians. They also have a narrow-track rail that is still used for transporting peat and bringing laborers to the work.