Kalpaka Bulvaris
Kalpaka bulvāris during shiny summer day. Boulevard is named after Oskars Kalpaks, the first commander of Latvian army.
Previous names of this boulevard between Brivibas and Elizabetes were:
During soviet times it was Komunāru bulvāris (Boulevard of Commune members)
During interwar period the street name was the same as now - Kalpaka bulvāris.
The earliest name known to me was Totlēbena bulvāris, basically devoted to Eduard Totleben, another army general, but of Russian Empire.

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