USSR map NO 34-11 -verso- Liepaja and Vicinity

Tosmare is a district (neighbourhood) of

Liepāja Liepāja () (formerly: Libau) is a Administrative divisions of Latvia, state city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea. It is the largest city in the Courland region and the third-largest in the country after Riga and Daugavpils. It is an ...

Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...

near the neighbourhood of

Karosta Karosta is a former Russian Imperial and Soviet naval base on the Baltic Sea, which today is a neighbourhood in Liepāja, Latvia. History The naval base was originally constructed in 1890-1906 for Tsar Alexander III of Russia, and named Пор ...

and Tosmare Lake. It is located in the north-eastern part of the city.

Shipyard

Tosmare is well known mostly because of the Tosmare Shipyard (''Liepāja Northern Shipyard'' since 2020) currently owned by SIA ''LZK'' (formerly by Rīgas kuģu būvētava). The shipyard was founded in 1900 and has two

graving docks A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...

, and was used by the inter-war

Latvian Navy Latvian Naval Forces () is the naval warfare branch of the Latvian National Armed Forces, National Armed Forces. It is tasked with conducting military, search and rescue operations, mine and explosive sweeping on the Baltic Sea, as well as ecolog ...

Notable residents

The Latvian poet

Mirdza Ķempe Mirdza Ķempe (later Naikovska) ( – 12 April 1974) was a Soviet and Latvian poet, writer and translator. She was a recipient of the State Prize of Latvian SSR (1958), USSR State Prize (1967), and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Biogra ...

lived here in from 1914 to 1926.

References

Neighbourhoods in Liepāja {{courland-geo-stub