Karostas ģeopolitiskās konstelācijas Andras Manfeldes romānā “Virsnieku sievas”

The present paper is aimed at carrying out the geopolitical discourse analysis of a Soviet military naval port town Karosta. Through the perspective of semiotics, the author explores the Karosta topochrone constellations and performative practices in Andra Manfelde’s novel Virsnieku sie-vas (“Officers’ Wives”, 2017). The author focuses on the semiotics of infrastructure in a Soviet military town, as well as on topochrone elements (Karosta, Liepāja, Liepāja Karosta canal, ro-tating bridge, St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral) in the mapping of critical geopolitics. Moreover, the geopolitical notions conditioned by the Cold War are examined: the notion of border and the narrative of submarines; impact of the geopolitical changes affected by totalita-rianism on the social structures, identity and gender constellations of the local residents as well as the presence of Soviet military subjects in the occupied territories.