The research aim of the article is to identify and evaluate the main aspects of the formation of Liepaja's literary and cultural environment in the 1950s –1980s. The location of the editorial office of the city newspaper Komunists (Kurzemes Vārds) at Pasta Street 3 is of great importance to the creative cultural space of Liepaja. There, the Association of Young Writers was founded in the 1950s. The editorial office becomes a gathering place for young writers, actors, musicians, and artists, a cultural space for an active creative life. Landscape identity can be viewed as a spatially unique psycho-sociological perception of a place defined in cultural space. The theoretical and methodological basis of the article is the theoretical studies on place identity and cultural memory issues by M. Levicka, B. Pedroli, V. Mansvelt, W. Stewart, D. J. Stobbelaar, A. Erlas, and others. The article concludes that many talented personalities work in the editorial office of the newspaper - journalists, writers, artists, etc. Many writers and journalists, later recognized in Liepāja, the region, and throughout Latvia, started their literary activities in the Association of Young Writers. Many of them experienced their first publications in the literary pages of the newspaper Komunists. Many of them also engaged in the newspaper as journalists. A close relationship is formed between the physical environment and, under its influence, the strong attachment to the creative community. Despite the ideological direction of the political era and the limitations of the creative process, thanks to the favourable, sometimes even open-minded, supportive and trusting atmosphere prevailing in the editorial office of the newspaper “Komunists”, the cultural and literary life of Liepāja rapidly developed and improving and becoming an important indicator of the city's cultural identity.