Military Heritage Tourism - Infrastructure

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

Anti-aircraft gun emplacement in Āmurkalna

Cabinet of Ministers building. 2025. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Tarvydai (Rumšai) Anti-Aircraft Missile Base

Abandoned Soviet Army oil base in Borovka

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

Fortifications of the Daugava River Mouth

"Laukgaļi" house, writer Kārlis Skalbe's place of residence

Torņakalns Church. 2021. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Riga Lutheran Evangelical Lutheran Church

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

Latvian Popular Front headquarters in Riga

Former Soviet border guard observation tower in Pāvilosta

Tempelhofas lauks (Tempelhofer Feld)

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

French Commissariat in Klaipėda

Gulbene depot, Saloon car No. 572699-698047

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

Former World War I narrow-gauge railway branch: “Banhoff – Bhf. Waldl. Salit" place

Latvian Radio's secret broadcasting site in Salaspils

German Army concrete tower (by the beach)

Soviet border guard post in Jūrmalciems

Daudzeva - Sunākstes - Viesītes narrow gauge railway

The author of the photo is Kęstutis Kilinskas.

“Memel-Nord” Coastal Artillery Battery

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

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

Chemical warehouse and bypass road

Watch tower of border guards in Salacgrīva

Zeppelin hangars of Riga Central market

First World War narrow-gauge railway line: Lāčplēsis - Vitkopi

Concrete access road from Mārciena to Gaizinkalns via Bērzauna

Viktorija Mačiulaitytė. Archive of the Department of Cultural Heritage

Oviši Lighthouse and Soviet border guard

Liepāja coastal artillery battery No. 2

Latvian soldiers’ former medical warehouse

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

A Set of Railway Bridge Structures in Kurmaičiai

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.

Prince Leopold Straße (Prinz – Leopold Straße)

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

“Ramovė” Villa club of Lithuanian Officers

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

The railway bridge over the river Rauna

Soviet air force target firing ground in Zvārde

Vecumnieki Railway Station

Spitham Radar Station

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

Latvian military aviation aerodrome

Open ammunition depots, lightning conductors, wells

Mežaparks Grand Stage

The former railway of the First World War: Vecumnieki - Mercendarbe

Hullo border outpost

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.

Stebel Coastal Battery No 315, Command Post

Papissaare Seaplane Base

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

Pakri Islands - Soviet aviation target range

Oriküla Command Centre and Missile Base

Spilve airport

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

Daugavmala (11. November Embankment)

Closed ammunition depots built in the 1950s

Collection of Soviet Military Vehicles

Yekeln's headquarters in Talso

Nuclear warhead storage (hangar) in Plokštinė

Vatla temporary airfield

Soviet Army Observation Tower (Kurgan of Officers)

Former Telšiai Prison

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral. Karosta Prison Archives

Karosta St.Nicholas Orthodox Sea Cathedral

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

Barta missile base

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

Railway bridge over Amata

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

Karosta Water Tower

Daugavpils Technical and Industrial Design Center “Engineers' Arsenal”

Water-lifting building

Alksnynė Defence Complex

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

Submarine marina in Alksnynė

Mazirbe border guard tower

Šateikiai ground missile base

Oskara Kalpaka Bridge in Karosta

Taurkalne German army warehouses

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

Jēkabpils Guards House (now the People's House)

Hara Harbor and Submarine base

Aegna Island

Iron tank bridge over the Bērze River

Ristna Lighthouse

Military hospital

Rumbula Air Base

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

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

Mõntu 127mm beach defense battery

Lugaži railway station. Source: Gita Memmēna, Vidzeme Tourism Association

Luggage railway station

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

Commandant's Administration Building

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

Iron bridge over Gauja in Valmiera

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

In the territory of Baraka's former sugar factory filtration camp, Aviācijas iela 49, where in 1945 the imprisoned Latvian soldiers were secretly supplied with food by members of the Jelgava resistance organization "Three Star Column"

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Vaiņode station

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

Fortress (Commandant's) Garden

The Great Guild in Riga. 2025. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Lielā ģilde

North Pier and Battery No.3 in Karosta

Photo: J.Smaļinskis. The reconstructed tower

Fire correction tower of the Ventspils 46th Coastal Defence Battery

Šiauliai (Zapalskiai) nuclear arsenal - nuclear warhead storage facility

Soldiers' barracks

Tahkuna Lighthouse

Pigeon post sea station in Karosta

Photographer Salvijus Kulevičius. Collection of S.Kulevičius

Šeikiškiai (Moletai) Anti-Aircraft Missile Base

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

The airfield section of the Biržai–Pandėlys road

Mazirbe Nautical School

Food warehouse

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Ārdava (Jezufinova) Manor

Kogula (Mõnnuste) airfield

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

World War I battlefields

"Kurzeme key" factory

Narrow gauge railway in Biržai

The pillars of the former German army bridge near Radze

Šautuve (shooting gallery)

Viesturs (Mihailas) Gate

Saxby (Vormsi) lighthouse

Kaiser Dam (Kaiser - Damm)

Naval Communication Station in Undva

Jelgava Castle. 2024. Photo: M. Neiburga

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

Eastern (Mangalsala) Pier

Linkaicai Weapons Workshop

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 route Mercendarbe-Skarbe

Photo: Museum of the National Resistance Movement

Strazde manor

Šateikiai railway station

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

Artillery Officers' Building

Mērsrags lighthouse and former border guard

Orjaku Military Harbour

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

Valka train station

The first narrow-gauge railway line of the World War era: Lāčplēsis – Latgali

Ferry Dignāja–Līvāni

“Nordmolle” Air Defence Battery

Former shop/police building

Vaiņode air base

Große Kurfürsten Damm

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.

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