History of the Jews in Latvia them were natives, including Jewish refugees who returned to their former residences from the interior of Russia, while the remainder came from other parts of the Soviet Union. About 48 percent of the Jews declared Yiddish as their mother tongue. The others mainly declared Russian as their language, while only a few hundred described themselves as Latvian-speaking. Of the total, 30,267 Jews (5/6) lived in Riga. The others lived in Daugavpils and other towns. According to private estimates, the Jews of Latvia in 1970 numbered about 50,000. The overwhelming majority of them lived in Riga, the capital, which became one
Ogre, Latvia Kurbads. Ogre has a Latvian Basketball League and Baltic Basketball League team, BK Ogre/Kumho Tyre, which entered the Latvian highest league after winning the gold in Latvian second league. Ogre's handball team HK Ogre/Miandum has won multiple medals in the Latvian Handball Higher League and won the silver medal at the 2013–14 season as the highest achievement. FK Ogre, the city's main association football club, plays in the Latvian First League. Ogre, Latvia Ogre (; ; ) (population 26,573 in 2000 census) is the principal town of Ogre Municipality (and previously Ogre District) in Central Latvia, east of the capital