Mežaparks Grand Stage Infrastructure

On July 16, 1988, the Environmental Protection Club organized a demonstration for the rehabilitation of the national flag at the Mežaparks Great Stage, demanding the lifting of the ban on using the red-white-red flag of the independent Latvian state. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR on September 23, this ban was lifted. The day before the founding congress of the Latvian Popular Front - on October 7, 1988, a popular demonstration "For a just state" was held in Mežaparks.

At the 150,000-person public meeting in Mežaparks and the subsequent two-day (October 8 and 9) founding congress of the Latvian Federation of Artists, which was preceded by a church service in the Dome Cathedral, Latvians and people of other nationalities demanded that the leadership of the Soviet Union grant Latvia economic self-determination, the right to veto Moscow's demands, end atheistic indoctrination schools, and other rights that were similar to the demands expressed in the resolution adopted by representatives of Latvian writers and other creative unions on June 1 and 2 of the same year.