Military Heritage Tourism - Infrastructure

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Former Soviet border guard observation tower in Pāvilosta

Anti-aircraft gun site at Āmurkalns

Remains of a German army concrete firing point on an island in the Pļaviņa HPP reservoir

Stebel Coastal Battery No 315, Command Post

Oviši Lighthouse and Soviet border guard

Jelgava Castle. 2024. Photo: M. Neiburga

The building of the Agricultural Academy in Jelgava at Lielāja Street 2, where members of the Latvian Central Council worked in 1943-1944

Photo: Museum of the National Resistance Movement

Oskara Kalpaka Bridge in Karosta

Pigeon post sea station in Karosta

Submarine pier in Alksnynė. Orthophoto. 2009–2010. From: maps.lt (UAB “Hnit-Baltic”), online access: https://old.maps.lt/map/.

“Memel-Nord” Coastal Artillery Battery

Former Ministry of the Interior building. 2025. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Bastejkalns neighborhood in Riga

Fortifications of the Daugava River Mouth

Great Electoral Dam (Große Kurfürsten Damm)

World War II Bunkers in Malnava and Hitler’s Visit to the Headquarters of the German Army Group North

Hara Harbor and Submarine base

Rangefinder No.2 of the 23rd Shore Battery (1954)

Information stand by the road. Photo: Jana Kalve

Zvārde shooting range and former Soviet military base "Lapsas"

Railway bridge over the Rauna. Source: Gita Memmēna, Vidzeme Tourism Association

The railway bridge over the river Rauna

Liepaja Police Building or "Blue Miracle"

Narrow gauge railway line during World War I: Lāčplēsis - Vitkopi

Daugavpils Technical and Industrial Design Center “Engineers' Arsenal”

Iron bridge over the Gauja River. Source: Valmiera Tourism Information Center

Iron bridge over the Gauja River in Valmiera

Photographer Kristupas Armonaitis (Apleistazona.lt). From: "Missile Base near Šilutė", in: Apleistazona.lt. (Un)Tourist City Guide, 2021-05-28, available online: http://www.apleistazona.lt/pasivaiksciojimas-sateikiu-raketu-bazeje/.

Tarvydai (Rumšai) Anti-Aircraft Missile Base

Soviet Army Military Base in the Green Forest / “Bunker” Park of Ideas

“Nordmolle” Air Defence Battery

Soviet air force target firing ground in Zvārde

The pillars of the former German army bridge near Radze

Former World War I-era railway: Vecumnieki - Mercendarbe

Photographer Salvijus Kulevičius. Collection of S.Kulevičius

Šeikiškiai (Moletai) Anti-Aircraft Missile Base

Abandoned Soviet Army oil base in Borovka

Torņakalns Church. 2021. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Riga Lutheran Evangelical Lutheran Church

Jēkabpils Guards House (now the People's House)

Educational program "Games and discoveries at the rocket base"

Do you like history, are you interested in the Cold War period? Want an unconventional museum lesson? We offer such an opportunity at the Cold War exhibition. During the educational program, it will be possible to get acquainted with the historical period of the Cold War and the only operational underground missile launch base in Lithuania. During the education, the participants, divided into groups, perform a variety of tasks promoting active cognition: deciphering a coded secret combat signal, learning to properly put on a gas mask, and getting to know the environment through the senses (hearing, sight, smell and touch).

This education is a game full of interesting stories, tasks, new missions.

The program is intended for students in grades 6-7,
Group size: up to 30 people.

Excursion "Cold War Exposition in a different way"

Arm yourself with flashlights and get ready to get dirty! You will be given the opportunity to explore the most secret corners of the underground missile launch base and learn the history of this special facility. And where else is the opportunity to spend an hour in a space completely isolated from the outside world! There is no mobile connection, no internet, and the only source of light is a handheld flashlight. The body of those who got here shivers, and when listening to the stories and facts that happened here, the visitor feels a threat to all humanity...

Organized groups: with advance registration of adult groups, up to 30 participants.

Soviet border guard post in Jūrmalciems

Saeima of the Republic of Latvia. 2025. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Parliament House (Saeima)

Tahkuna Lighthouse

Mežaparks Grand Stage

Concrete access road from Mārcienė to Gaiziņkalns via Bērzaunis

Chemical warehouse and bypass road

Mangalsala Street

"Laukgaļi" houses, the residence of the writer Kārlis Skalbe

Eastern (Mangalsala) Pier

Ekspozīcija Latvijas armija 20 gs 20 gados

Exhibition “Latvian Army in Pļaviņas in the 20th Century”

Soviet Army Observation Tower (Kurgan of Officers)

Ferry Dignāja–Līvāni

Papissaare Seaplane Base

Mazirbe Nautical School

Shooting range (Schießstand)

Akmeņrags Lighthouse and the fate of the "Saratov"

Excursion to Akmenrag lighthouse

It is possible to climb the Akmeņraga lighthouse via a spiral staircase. Climbing the lighthouse offers a fantastic view of the sea and surrounding forests. The lighthouse is the main ornament of Akmeņraga. In 2011, during the implementation of the project, the road to the Akmeņraga lighthouse was reconstructed. Far beyond the borders of Akmeņraga, information has spread about the unique collection of amber and stones collected by the lighthouse keeper.

Viesturs (Mihailas) Gate

The author of the photo is Kęstutis Kilinskas.

“Ramovė” Villa club of Lithuanian Officers

Viktorija Mačiulaitytė. Archive of the Department of Cultural Heritage

Zokniai Air Base Hangar (KVR)

Rumbula Air Base

11th November Embankment in Riga. 2025. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Daugavmala (11. November Embankment)

World War I battlefields

Mazirbe border guard tower

Collection of Soviet Military Vehicles

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Ārdava (Jezufinova) Manor

North Pier and Battery No.3 in Karosta

Narrow gauge railway line during World War I: Lāčplēsis – Latgale

Writers' Union building

A Set of Railway Bridge Structures in Kurmaičiai

Prince Leopold Road (Prinz – Leopold Straße)

Naval Communication Station in Undva

Rally organized by the VAK against the construction of the metro in Riga. April 27, 1988. Museum of the Occupation of Latvia

Arcadia Park

French Commissariat in Klaipėda

Mērsrags lighthouse and former border guard

Fragment of the 4th Infantry Regiment rifle range wall in Kupiškis

Military hospital

Commandant's Administration Building

Mazirbe boat cemetery

Pakri Island in the mid-1990s. Photo: Juris Smaļinskis

Pakri Islands - Soviet aviation target range

Vecumnieki Railway Station

Latvian Radio's secret broadcasting site in Salaspils

Rangefinder No.1 of the 23rd Shore Battery (1941)

Tempelhofas lauks (Tempelhofer Feld)

Remains of a German army concrete fire point on the banks of the Plavinas HPP

Aegna Island

Lāčplēsis (Aleksandras) Gate

Vatla temporary airfield

Fortress (Commandant's) Garden

Watch tower of border guards in Salacgrīva

Latvian soldiers’ former medical warehouse

Oriküla Command Centre and Missile Base

Soldiers' barracks

Former World War I narrow gauge railway branch: “Banhoff – Bhf. Waldl. Salit” site

Ruhnu Lighthouse

Food warehouse

Barracks of the Latgale Artillery Regiment, Krustpils. 1930s.

Latgale Artillery Regiment Army Barracks

Former military commandant's office, memorial plaque of General P. Plechavičius

Latvian Army Spotlight Point

Vaiņode air base

Užava Lighthouse

Nuclear warhead storage (hangar) in Plokštinė

Iron tank bridge over the Bērze River

Narrow gauge railway in Biržai

Jekeln headquarters in Talsi

Linkaicai Weapons Workshop

Riga Congress Center

Saxby (Vormsi) lighthouse

Daile Theatre

Cabinet of Ministers building

Valka railway station (Valka II). Source: Gita Memmēna, Vidzeme Tourism Association

Valka train station

Alksnynė Defence Complex

The former building of Jelgava Secondary School No. 2 today. Photo: A. Barševskis

The building of Jelgava Secondary School No. 2 at Filozofu Street 50, where members of the youth resistance organization “Three-Star Column” studied in 1945

"Daugava Path" (Düna Weg)

Photo by Salvijus Kulevičius, 2024. Personal collection of Salvijus Kulevičius.

The airfield section of the Biržai–Pandėlys road

Lēni Manor in 2020. Photo: Līga Landsberga

Lēnu Manor

Artillery Officers' Building

Unity House

Taurkalne German army warehouse site

Embankment on the Mercendarbe-Skarbe section of the German military railway, 2021. Source: Riga Planning Region, author: Edgars Ražinskis.

Section of the German military railway on the Mercendarbe-Skarbe route

Photo: J.Smaļinskis. The reconstructed tower

Fire correction tower of the Ventspils 46th Coastal Defence Battery

Orjaku Military Harbour

Latvian military aviation airfield. Source: Gulbene Tourism and Cultural Heritage Center.

Latvian Military Aviation Airport

Closed ammunition depots built in the 1950s

Bastion Powder Cellar

Gulbene depot, Saloon car No. 572699-698047

Zeppelin hangars of Riga Central market

Daudzeva - Sunākstes - Viesītes narrow gauge railway

Former Jelgava State Teachers' Institute building. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The building of the Jelgava State Teachers' Institute at Svētes Street 18, where youth resistance members studied in 1940-1941

Factory "Kurzeme tsela"

Photo by Viktoras Šadauskas, 2020. Photo archive of the Klaipėda County Public I. Simonaitytė Library.

“Memel Sud” Coastal Artillery Battery

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Northern Camp

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Vaiņode station

German Army concrete tower (by the beach)

Fourth artillery yard of Battery No. 458. Author Tõnu Veldre

Mõntu 127mm beach defense battery

Šateikiai ground missile base

Šiauliai (Zapalskiai) nuclear arsenal - nuclear warhead storage facility

Barta missile base

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral. Karosta Prison Archives

Karosta St.Nicholas Orthodox Sea Cathedral

Hullo border outpost

"Bambaļi" houses - one of the main accommodation places for boat refugees

German army coastguard searchlight site in Usi and border guard post in Kolka

The former headquarters of the Latvian Popular Front in Old Riga. 2025. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Latvian Popular Front headquarters in Riga

Liepāja Coastal Artillery Battery No. 2

Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre

Tour of the Irbene radio telescope complex

During the tour, visitors have the opportunity to see the RT-8 tower and the expositions located in it about the operation of RT-32 and RT-16 during the USSR, which at that time operated as a space intelligence station. Excursionists will have the opportunity to see the "old" RT-16 antenna, as well as the rest of the territory, as well as a hike through the underground tunnel.