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Oviši Lighthouse and Soviet border guard

Daugavmala (11. November Embankment)

Hara Harbor and Submarine base

Great Electoral Dam (Große Kurfürsten Damm)

Taurkalne German army warehouse site

Watch tower of border guards in Salacgrīva

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

Iron bridge over the Gauja River in Valmiera

Latvian Radio's secret broadcasting site in Salaspils

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.

Fortifications of the Daugava River Mouth

Papissaare Seaplane Base

Užava Lighthouse

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

Cabinet of Ministers building

Mazirbe border guard tower

Riga Congress Center

Daugavpils Technical and Industrial Design Center “Engineers' Arsenal”

Keruspils (Jekabpils) Airport

Ruhnu Lighthouse

Aegna Island

Soviet border guard post in Jūrmalciems

Railway branch and platform

Ristna Lighthouse

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

Former World War I-era railway: Vecumnieki - Mercendarbe

The author of the photo is Kęstutis Kilinskas.

“Ramovė” Villa club of Lithuanian Officers

Karosta Water Tower

Ferry Dignāja–Līvāni

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

Jēkabpils Guards House (now the People's House)

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

Bastion Powder Cellar

Iron tank bridge over the Bērze River

World War I battlefields

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

Latgale Artillery Regiment Army Barracks

Lugaži railway station

Orjaku Military Harbour

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

Unity House

Oriküla Command Centre and Missile Base

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

Pakri Islands - Soviet aviation target range

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

Photo: Museum of the National Resistance Movement

Strazde Manor

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

Aukštaitija barge railway

Artillery arsenal

Oskara Kalpaka Bridge in Karosta

Pelči Manor

The pillars of the former German army bridge near Radze

Former Telšiai Prison

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

Parliament House (Saeima)

Mazirbe Nautical School

Anti-aircraft gun site at Āmurkalns

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

Viktorija Mačiulaitytė. Archive of the Department of Cultural Heritage

Zokniai Air Base Hangar (KVR)

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

Military hospital

Soviet Army Observation Tower (Kurgan of Officers)

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

Lokatoru hill

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

The airfield section of the Biržai–Pandėlys road

Factory "Kurzeme tsela"

Ekspozīcija Latvijas armija 20 gs 20 gados

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

Mērsrags lighthouse and former border guard

Hullo border outpost

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

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.

Vatla temporary airfield

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

Liepaja Police Building or "Blue Miracle"

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral. Karosta Prison Archives

Karosta St.Nicholas Orthodox Sea Cathedral

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

Lēni Manor in 2020. Photo: Līga Landsberga

Lēnu Manor

Naval Communication Station in Undva

Chemical warehouse and bypass road

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

"Daugava Path" (Düna Weg)

Vaiņode air base

Linkaicai Weapons Workshop

Torņakalns Church. 2021. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Riga Lutheran Evangelical Lutheran Church

Jelgava Airport

Lyduvenai Railway Bridge

Ķeizerdambis (Kaiser - Damm)

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

Naissaar

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

Mõntu 127mm beach defense battery

Barta missile base

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

Commandant's Administration Building

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

Pine Mountain

Shooting range (Schießstand)

Photographer Salvijus Kulevičius. Collection of S.Kulevičius

Šeikiškiai (Moletai) Anti-Aircraft Missile Base

Liepāja Coastal Artillery Battery No. 2

Soldiers' barracks

Information stand by the road. Photo: Jana Kalve

Zvārde shooting range and former Soviet military base "Lapsas"

Writers' Union building

“Memel-Nord” Coastal Artillery Battery

Prince Leopold Road (Prinz – Leopold Straße)

Dome Square in Old Riga

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

Photo: J.Smaļinskis. The reconstructed tower

Fire correction tower of the Ventspils 46th Coastal Defence Battery

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

“Memel Sud” Coastal Artillery Battery

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

Closed ammunition depots built in the 1950s

Viesturs (Mihailas) Gate

Latvian soldiers’ former medical warehouse

Abandoned Soviet Army oil base in Borovka

Mangalsala Street

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.