Daugavpils

What Daugavpils does

Daugavpils valstspilsētas pašvaldība (Daugavpils State City Municipality) is the municipal government of Daugavpils, the second-largest city in Latvia, located in the Latgale region near the borders with Belarus and Russia. Chartered as a city in 1582 and designated a state city (valstspilsēta) in 2021, the municipality provides comprehensive public services to residents — including education, healthcare, social welfare, public transportation, cultural institutions, sports facilities, urban development, and administrative services — through the unified daugavpils.lv digital portal, an Information Bureau, and physical government offices. Its cultural identity is anchored in the Daugavpils Fortress (cietoksnis), a multi-ethnic heritage, and its role as the administrative centre of Latgale.

The municipality operates through eight wholly-owned subsidiaries covering public transport (SIA Daugavpils satiksme, SIA Daugavpils autobusu parks), water and sewage (SIA Daugavpils ūdens), heat supply (SIA Daugavpils siltumtīkli), children's health and dental services, an innovation and STEM education centre (Daugavpils Inovāciju centrs), and the ALTOP industriālais parks — the only nationally significant industrial park in Latgale, which opened in June 2026 with more than 11,000 sqm of production and logistics space. Rather than commercial pricing, the entity is funded through local taxes (notably the real estate tax NĪN), state allocations, municipal fees, and EU structural and Recovery and Resilience Facility funding, with €17.1 million secured from the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility for the ALTOP project. Primary constituents are city residents, with secondary constituencies of business investors — particularly manufacturing and logistics tenants — and tourists visiting the fortress and cultural landmarks.

Customer acquisition and service delivery run through direct government offices, the Information Bureau, online services (e-pakalpojumi, E-Pieraksts), and a dedicated tourism portal (visitdaugavpils.lv); the municipality does not operate a commercial sales motion and does not publish pricing for core public services. The chairman of the city council is Andrejs Elksniņš, and the entity is governed under Latvian public administration law as a pašvaldība rather than a privately held commercial company.

Name

Daugavpils

Legal name

Daugavpils valstspilsētas pašvaldība

Website

https://daugavpils.lv

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Daugavpils valstspilsētas pašvaldība is the municipal government of Latvia's second-largest city, delivering public services to city residents through education, healthcare, transport, utilities, and cultural institutions, and operating the ALTOP industrial park for regional economic development.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Administration

NAICS

Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (925120), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (925), Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (221310), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241)

SIC

Water Supply (4941), Refuse Systems (4953), Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

Mayor/City Manager & General Administration (BPAIACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Works & Municipal Infrastructure (Streets, Stormwater, Facilities) (BPAIACAF), Public Works Departments (Streets, Bridges, Stormwater, Fleet, Maintenance) (BPAIALAD)

Keywords

• Municipal government services
• Public administration
• Urban infrastructure
• Public transportation
• Wastewater management

Headquarters

HQ city

Daugavpils

HQ country

Latvia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Daugavpils valstspilsētas pašvaldība (Daugavpils State City Municipality) is the municipal government of Daugavpils, Latvia's second-largest city. It delivers public administration, education, healthcare, social welfare, cultural programs, sports facilities, public transportation, water/sewage utilities, heat supply, and urban development planning to city residents and businesses. The municipality also operates the ALTOP industrial park to attract manufacturing and logistics investments to the Latgale region.

Product overview

Daugavpils.lv is a single unified municipal government digital services platform that provides comprehensive city information and public services to citizens. The portal offers various digital services including e-pakalpojumi (e-services), e-pieraksts (online appointment booking), information about education, healthcare, culture, sports facilities, public transportation, and municipal administration. The website also hosts the Daugavpils Innovāciju Centrs (Innovation Center) subdomain providing STEM education programs and science outreach activities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ALTOP: Austrumlatvijas viedo tehnoloģiju un pētniecības centra industriālais parks — a smart technology and research industrial park in Latgale, the only nationally significant industrial park in Latgale region.
• Daugavpils Inovāciju centrs
• Daugavpils Cietoksnis
• Daugavpils Sporta pārvalde

Products and services

• Daugavpils.lv municipal digital services portal

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core, moderate and minor.

• SIA EndlinecoreOthers · 23 April 2026First tenant of ALTOP industrial park, granted rights to rental object 1 for 30 years to develop and expand manufacturing capacities.
• SIA MAGISTRcoreOthers · 23 April 2026Second tenant of ALTOP industrial park, granted rights to rental object 3 for 15 years to develop and expand manufacturing capacities.
• Tronheimas Zinātnes centrs (Vitensenteret)moderateStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 June 2023Norwegian science center collaboration for international youth summer school STEM program. Daugavpils Municipality, Daugavpils University, and Tronheimas Zinātnes centrs jointly implemented the international youth summer school in June.
• Augšdaugavas novada pašvaldībacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner municipality in ALTOP industrial park development and various regional projects including Daugavpils development program 2021-2027.
• SIA Naujenes pakalpojumu servissminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerConstruction partner for ALTOP industrial park development.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība (Jūrmala City Municipality): Jūrmala is a Latvian state-city municipality with a tourism-led economy; comparable to Daugavpils in governance form (valstspilsēta) but differentiated by a resort/tourism revenue mix rather than industrial and heritage tourism.
• Rīgas valstspilsētas pašvaldība (Riga City Municipality): Riga is Latvia's largest city and state-city municipality, directly comparable to Daugavpils as a Latvian valstspilsēta with a similar governance structure, wholly-owned municipal service subsidiaries, and the same funding mix of taxes, state allocations, and EU grants.
• Ventspils valstspilsētas pašvaldība (Ventspils City Municipality): Ventspils is a Latvian state-city municipality with a strong industrial-port heritage and an active economic-development function, comparable in scope of municipal service delivery and reliance on EU-cohesion-era investments.
• Liepājas valstspilsētas pašvaldība (Liepāja City Municipality): Liepāja is another Latvian state-city municipality with comparable scale, port-and-industrial heritage, a similar set of municipal transport, water, and heating subsidiaries, and a comparable tourism and cultural agenda.
• Jelgavas valstspilsētas pašvaldība (Jelgava City Municipality): Jelgava is a Latvian state-city municipality of broadly similar administrative scale to Daugavpils, providing the same category of municipal services (education, transport, utilities) under the same Latvian regulatory framework.
• Rēzeknes valstspilsētas pašvaldība (Rēzekne City Municipality): Rēzekne is a Latgale-region state-city municipality sharing Daugavpils' demographic and economic-development challenges, including EU-funded infrastructure programs and a multiethnic population base.

Regional players

• Tallinna Linnavalitsus (Tallinn City Government): Tallinn is Estonia's capital and a comparable Baltic state-city municipality, operating a similarly broad portfolio of municipal services and subsidiaries in a neighboring regulatory and EU-funding environment.
• Kauno miesto savivaldybė (Kaunas City Municipality): Kaunas is Lithuania's second-largest city, with a comparable industrial-heritage profile, university-driven innovation agenda, and reliance on EU structural funds for urban regeneration.
• Tartu Linnavalitsus (Tartu City Government): Tartu is Estonia's second-largest city and a university-and-innovation hub, comparable to Daugavpils in scale and in its emphasis on education and innovation as drivers of municipal development.

Others

• Daugavpils Universitāte (Daugavpils University): Daugavpils University is a strategic ecosystem partner — co-implementer of the international STEM summer school with the Norwegian Vitensenteret and a feeder for the city's innovation and talent pipeline, making it directly relevant as an adjacent institutional peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCDAXMc7loOMmMSabs_OtSxQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/daugavpilsdome
• Xx.com/Daugavpilsdome
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/daugavpils-satiksme

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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