SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DOCUMENTS:

All these documents have a big significance as they all date to pre-soviet Latvia when the government was controlled by the USSR.
From the mid-1940s Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic was subject to Soviet economic control and saw considerable russification of its peoples. However, Latvian culture and infrastructures survived and, during the period of Soviet liberalization under Mikhail Gorbachev, Latvia once again took a path towards independence, eventually succeeding in August 1991 to be recognized by Russia the following month. Since then, under restored independence.

in the images below you can also see one of my mothers pre and post soviet union passports, being wildly different from one another. The passport system in the Soviet Union restricted migration of citizens within the country through the “propiska” (residential permit/registration system) and the use of internal passports. For a long period of Soviet history, peasants did not have internal passports, and could not move into towns without permission. Many former inmates received “wolf tickets”and were only allowed to live a minimum of 101km away from the city boarders. Travel to closed cities and to the regions near USSR state borders was strongly restricted. An attempt to illegally escape abroad was punishable by imprisonment for 1–3 years.