Although there is correspondence in RI Archives dating back
to 1929, the first of the two Latvian Rotary Clubs is shown as
being organised in Riga on April 7,1933. The second club in
Liepaja, had a short life being inaugurated on August 3, 1939.
As elsewhere in the Baltic, the Latvian clubs were terminated
on October 10, 1940. **
When Rotary was restarted in Latvia in the early 1990s, the two
clubs which had existed before the Russian invasion, were listed
in the Official Directory of RI with their pre-war chartering
years of Riga 1933 and Liepaja 1939. This is not the case with
the Estonian and Lithuanian clubs.
** This information is based on files in the RI Archives.
However, the Kumeu RC in New Zealand has had extensive dealings
with Latvian Rotary and in their list, they show only one club
in 1940 although this is not named.
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