Daugava

The other one, of course, is Vontu Tilts.

Now, if you have been to Riga or even seen a picture of Riga, you've noticed the asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge, the big kind of gray concrete one that is the final crossing of the Daugava before, or at least the final road crossing.

Well, actually, I guess the final crossing altogether.

It's not a real crossing after that.

of the Daugava River before its mouth, Baltic Sea, and that carries Christiana Waldemariella, which eventually turns into Konciamiella on the other side.

That is one of the kind of four major bridges, major road bridges, I should say, across the Daugava River, and it is in not great condition.

If any of you have walked under Vontu Tilts and looked up, I don't suggest it because it doesn't, you know, if you have to drive over it afterwards or even take like a bus over it afterwards doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

So it is going to be repaired over the next few years.

In 1911, the company owned a fleet of 78 vessels and accounted for 71% of the traffic on the Dnieper.

Other companies operated on the Western Dvina, the Niemen, joined the Merensky Canal and the Volga.

There were also about 10 oil companies belonging to Jews from Baku.

The biggest were the oil company belonging to the brothers S and M Polyak and to, and to Rothschild, and to the joint stock company of the Caspian Black Sea, behind which was found the name of Rothschild.

In 1911, the company owned a fleet of seventy-eight vessels and accounted for seventy-one percent of the traffic on the Dnieper.

Other companies operated on the Western Dvina, the Niemen, joined the Mariinsky Canal, and the Volga.

There were also about ten oil companies belonging to Jews from Baku.

The biggest were the oil company belonging to the brothers S and M Poliak and to, and to Rothschild, and to the joint stock company of the Caspian Black Sea, behind which was found the name of Rothschild.