“Riga House Manager” is responsible for more than 1,300 elevators. Most are old, loud, uncomfortable, and sometimes dangerous Soviet legacies. They should be changed, but swapping one elevator for a brand new one would cost around €60,000. And usually, there's more than one elevator in a building.
“The average elevator is manufactured in the Soviet Union. Most often he was produced in Belarus, the Mogieleva factory,” said Krists Leiškalns, representative of Riga House Manager Ltd.