Military Heritage Tourism - Infrastructure

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

Soviet air force target firing ground in Zvārde

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

Collection of Soviet Military Vehicles

Taurkalne German army warehouse site

Oviši Lighthouse and Soviet border guard

Pigeon post sea station in Karosta

German Army concrete tower (by the beach)

Ekspozīcija Latvijas armija 20 gs 20 gados

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

Pakri Islands - Soviet aviation target range

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

Daugavmala (11. November Embankment)

Latvian Radio's secret broadcasting site in Salaspils

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

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

Viktorija Mačiulaitytė. Archive of the Department of Cultural Heritage

Hara Harbor and Submarine base

Oriküla Command Centre and Missile Base

Watch tower of border guards in Salacgrīva

Iron bridge over the Gauja River in Valmiera

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

French Commissariat in Klaipėda

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Former Soviet border guard observation tower in Pāvilosta

Daudzeva - Sunākstes - Viesītes narrow gauge railway

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

The railway bridge over the river Rauna

Soviet Army Observation Tower (Kurgan of Officers)

Latvian soldiers’ former medical warehouse

Former World War I-era railway: Vecumnieki - Mercendarbe

Abandoned Soviet Army oil base in Borovka

Photo: J.Smaļinskis. The reconstructed tower

Fire correction tower of the Ventspils 46th Coastal Defence Battery

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

Concrete access road from Mārcienė to Gaiziņkalns via Bērzaunis

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

Latvian Military Aviation Airport

Chemical warehouse and bypass road

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.

Artillery Officers' Building

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

Mērsrags lighthouse and former border guard

Lāčplēsis (Aleksandras) Gate

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Vaiņode station

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

“Memel Sud” Coastal Artillery Battery

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

Latgale Artillery Regiment Army Barracks

Šiauliai (Zapalskiai) nuclear arsenal - nuclear warhead storage facility

Daugavpils Technical and Industrial Design Center “Engineers' Arsenal”

The author of the photo is Kęstutis Kilinskas.

“Ramovė” Villa club of Lithuanian Officers

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

The pillars of the former German army bridge near Radze

Commandant's Administration Building

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

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

Mangalsala Street

A Set of Railway Bridge Structures in Kurmaičiai

Information stand by the road. Photo: Jana Kalve

Zvārde shooting range and former Soviet military base "Lapsas"

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

Unity House

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.

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

The airfield section of the Biržai–Pandėlys road

“Nordmolle” Air Defence Battery

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

Photographer Salvijus Kulevičius. Collection of S.Kulevičius

Šeikiškiai (Moletai) Anti-Aircraft Missile Base

Fortifications of the Daugava River Mouth

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

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

Bastejkalns neighborhood in Riga

Factory "Kurzeme tsela"

Naissaar

Oskara Kalpaka Bridge in Karosta

Iron tank bridge over the Bērze River

Užava Lighthouse

Pelči Manor

Shooting range (Schießstand)

Mežaparks Grand Stage

Lugaži railway station

Photo: Museum of the National Resistance Movement

Strazde Manor

Hullo border outpost

Stebel Coastal Battery No 315, Command Post

Fortress (Commandant's) Garden

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

Arcadia Park

Aegna Island

North Pier and Battery No.3 in Karosta

Spilve airport

Viesturs (Mihailas) Gate

"Daugava Path" (Düna Weg)

Former store/police building

Mazirbe Nautical School

Anti-aircraft gun site at Āmurkalns

Food warehouse

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

Mazirbe boat cemetery

The Great Guild

Daile Theatre

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

“Memel-Nord” Coastal Artillery Battery

Closed ammunition depots built in the 1950s

Construction of the Jēkabpils Guard House. Second half of the 1930s

Jēkabpils Guards House (now the People's House)

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

Writers' Union building

Tempelhofas lauks (Tempelhofer Feld)

Prince Leopold Road (Prinz – Leopold Straße)

Bastion Powder Cellar

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Ārdava (Jezufinova) Manor

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

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral. Karosta Prison Archives

Karosta St.Nicholas Orthodox Sea Cathedral

Soldiers' barracks

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

Valka train station

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

Latvian Popular Front headquarters in Riga

Narrow gauge railway in Biržai

Dome Square in Old Riga

Nuclear warhead storage (hangar) in Plokštinė

Railway bridge over the Amata, June 20, 1889. Source: National Archives of Estonia

Railway bridge over Amata

Naval Communication Station in Undva

Zeppelin hangars of Riga Central market

Great Electoral Dam (Große Kurfürsten Damm)

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

Rumbula Air Base

Open ammunition depots, lightning conductors, wells

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

Gulbene depot, Saloon car No. 572699-698047

Ristna Lighthouse

Liepaja Police Building or "Blue Miracle"

Soviet border guard post in Jūrmalciems

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.

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