Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the Venta river, which passes through the city. Ventspils's population was estimated in 2004 to be about 39,600.
Ventspils is an important ice-free port. Large amounts of oil and other mineral resources from Russia are loaded aboard ships at Ventspils. The revenue from port services has made Ventspils the wealthiest city in Latvia.
The city has a university college, Venstpils Augstskola, and a basketball team that has won Latvian championship for last several years. And in 2001/2002 season they had 3rd place in NEBL.
Ventspils was first mentioned in chronicles in 1290. Called Windau at that time, it was a part of the Hanseatic League.
Ventspils Airport, one of the three in Latvia, is located in the city.
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was born in Berlin to Adolf and Margarete (Elster) Windaus on December 25, 1876.
By 1906, Windaus was appointed assistant professor at Freiburg and in 1913, he moved to the University of Innsbruck in Austria to become a professor of applied medical chemistry.
Windaus was granted numerous honorary degrees and other awards as well, including the Louis Pasteur Medal of the French Academy of Sciences in 1938 and the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institute in 1941.
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