Military Heritage Tourism - Infrastructure

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

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

Latvian Radio's secret broadcasting site in Salaspils

The author of the photo is Kęstutis Kilinskas.

“Nordmolle” Air Defence Battery

Former World War I-era railway: Vecumnieki - Mercendarbe

Fortifications of the Daugava River Mouth

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Former Soviet border guard observation tower in Pāvilosta

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

Fortress (Commandant's) Garden

Latvian soldiers’ former medical warehouse

Daudzeva - Sunākstes - Viesītes narrow gauge railway

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Chemical warehouse and bypass road

Riga Congress Center building. 2025. Latvian Gazette

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

Saxby (Vormsi) lighthouse. Photo by Silja Lehtpuu

Collection of Soviet Military Vehicles

Torņakalns Church. 2021. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Riga Lutheran Evangelical Lutheran Church

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.

Lēni Manor in 2020. Photo: Līga Landsberga

Lēnu Manor

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

Hullo border outpost

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

Railway bridge over Amata

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Vaiņode station

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

Papissaare Seaplane Base

Ruhnu Lighthouse

Zeppelin hangars of Riga Central market

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

Hara Harbor and Submarine base

Barta missile base

Former store/police building

Naval Communication Station in Undva

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

Latvian Military Aviation Airport

Mangalsala Street

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

Mõntu 127mm beach defense battery

Jekeln headquarters in Talsi

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

Soviet Army Observation Tower (Kurgan of Officers)

A Set of Railway Bridge Structures in Kurmaičiai

Taurkalne German army warehouse site

Information stand by the road. Photo: Jana Kalve

Zvārde shooting range and former Soviet military base "Lapsas"

Prince Leopold Road (Prinz – Leopold Straße)

Spitham Radar Station

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

Pine Mountain

Factory "Kurzeme tsela"

Oviši Lighthouse and Soviet border guard

Pavements - Rubikiai narrow-gauge railway stage. Sources: Wikipedia

Aukštaitija barge railway

Liepāja Coastal Artillery Battery No. 2

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

Jēkabpils Guards House (now the People's House)

Narrow gauge railway in Biržai

Vaiņode air base

Cabinet of Ministers building

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

Former Telšiai Prison

Commandant's Administration Building

Mērsrags lighthouse and former border guard

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

Šateikiai ground missile base

Railway branch and platform

The Great Guild

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

The railway bridge over the river Rauna

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

Bastejkalns neighborhood in Riga

Rata Hill

Photo: J.Smaļinskis. The reconstructed tower

Fire correction tower of the Ventspils 46th Coastal Defence Battery

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

Daugavmala (11. November Embankment)

Mazirbe Nautical School

Vatla temporary airfield

Užava Lighthouse

Locator Hill, 2020. Source: Latvian Rural Tourism Association "Lauku ceļotājs", author: Juris Smaļinskis.

Lokatoru hill

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

Jelgava Airport

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

Latgale Artillery Regiment Army Barracks

Linkaicai Weapons Workshop

Military hospital

Tempelhofas lauks (Tempelhofer Feld)

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

The airfield section of the Biržai–Pandėlys road

Watch tower of border guards in Salacgrīva

Open ammunition depots, lightning conductors, wells

Mazirbe border guard tower

Ekspozīcija Latvijas armija 20 gs 20 gados

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

Mežaparks Grand Stage

Latvian Army Spotlight Point

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

Pakri Islands - Soviet aviation target range

“Memel-Nord” Coastal Artillery Battery

Artillery Officers' Building

Pigeon post sea station in Karosta

Rumbula Air Base

Iron tank bridge over the Bērze River

Pelči Manor

Writers' Union building

Šateikiai railway station

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

Iron bridge over the Gauja River in Valmiera

Lyduvenai Railway Bridge

Oskara Kalpaka Bridge in Karosta

Naissaar

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

Arcadia Park

Shooting range (Schießstand)

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

“Memel Sud” Coastal Artillery Battery

Gulbene depot, Saloon car No. 572699-698047

Viesturs (Mihailas) Gate

Mazirbe boat cemetery

Eastern (Mangalsala) Pier

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

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

Dome Square in Old Riga

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral. Karosta Prison Archives

Karosta St.Nicholas Orthodox Sea Cathedral

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

Nuclear warhead storage (hangar) in Plokštinė

Soviet air force target firing ground in Zvārde

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

Latvian Popular Front headquarters in Riga

Photographer Salvijus Kulevičius. Collection of S.Kulevičius

Šeikiškiai (Moletai) Anti-Aircraft Missile Base

Water-lifting building

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

Anti-aircraft gun site at Āmurkalns

Stebel Coastal Battery No 315, Command Post

French Commissariat in Klaipėda

Abandoned Soviet Army oil base in Borovka

Great Electoral Dam (Große Kurfürsten Damm)

Orjaku Military Harbour

Lugaži railway station

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

Valka train station

"Daugava Path" (Düna Weg)

Aegna Island

Unity House

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

Projectile warehouses

Viktorija Mačiulaitytė. Archive of the Department of Cultural Heritage

Zokniai Air Base Hangar (KVR)

Ķeizerdambis (Kaiser - Damm)

Šiauliai (Zapalskiai) nuclear arsenal - nuclear warhead storage facility

Concrete access road from Mārcienė to Gaiziņkalns via Bērzaunis

Daugavpils Technical and Industrial Design Center “Engineers' Arsenal”

Photo: Museum of the National Resistance Movement

Strazde Manor

Kogula (Mõnnuste) airfield

Border checkpoint in Kudani

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

North Pier and Battery No.3 in Karosta

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

Submarine marina in Alksnynė

Soviet border guard post in Jūrmalciems

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

Parliament House (Saeima)

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.

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.