Olaine

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Olaine
Riga District

Population (2005)	13243
As a city	since 1967
County	Riga District
Homepage	www.olaine.lv
Total area	682,4 ha

Olaine is a town in Latvia. Near Olaine is peatbog which was first used in 1940. Later many factories were built near there and workers of them needed a place to live so the first living houses were built in Olaine. Early Olaine was name of village 2km away from Olaine, now called Jaunolaine(New Olaine).

[edit] Fellowship towns

Through years Olaine has gained several fellowship towns to make collaboration in social, educational and cultural matters:

	Ödeshög, Sweden		Vadstena, Sweden		Karlskoga, Sweden		Riihimäki, Finland
	Nowa Sarzyna, Poland		Narva, Estonia		Anykščiai, Lithuania

[edit] Notable people

• Dmitrijs Milkevics - latvian athlete

[edit] Links

Olaine official homepage