Military Heritage Tourism - Infrastructure

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

Latgale Artillery Regiment Army Barracks

Prince Leopold Road (Prinz – Leopold Straße)

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

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

Latvian Popular Front headquarters in Riga

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

Soviet border guard post in Jūrmalciems

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

Great Electoral Dam (Große Kurfürsten Damm)

Open ammunition depots, lightning conductors, wells

Collection of Soviet Military Vehicles

Fortress (Commandant's) Garden

Saxby (Vormsi) lighthouse. Photo by Silja Lehtpuu

Daudzeva - Sunākstes - Viesītes narrow gauge railway

Oviši Lighthouse and Soviet border guard

Gulbene depot, Saloon car No. 572699-698047

Photographer Salvijus Kulevičius. Collection of S.Kulevičius

Šeikiškiai (Moletai) Anti-Aircraft Missile Base

Hara Harbor and Submarine base

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

Rata Hill

Commandant's Administration Building

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

Daugavmala (11. November Embankment)

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

The Great Guild

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

Taurkalne German army warehouse site

Kogula (Mõnnuste) airfield

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

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

“Memel Sud” Coastal Artillery Battery

French Commissariat in Klaipėda

Pelči Manor

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.

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

Jēkabpils Guards House (now the People's House)

Mērsrags lighthouse and former border guard

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

Latvian Military Aviation Airport

Hullo border outpost

Mazirbe border guard tower

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

Submarine marina in Alksnynė

World War I battlefields

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

Ekspozīcija Latvijas armija 20 gs 20 gados

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

Ristna Lighthouse

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

Parliament House (Saeima)

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

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

Aukštaitija barge railway

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

Ķeizerdambis (Kaiser - Damm)

Riga Congress Center

Information stand by the road. Photo: Jana Kalve

Zvārde shooting range and former Soviet military base "Lapsas"

Former World War I-era railway: Vecumnieki - Mercendarbe

Abandoned Soviet Army oil base in Borovka

Barta missile base

The pillars of the former German army bridge near Radze

Latvian soldiers’ former medical warehouse

Šateikiai ground missile base

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

The airfield section of the Biržai–Pandėlys road

Rumbula Air Base

Soviet air force target firing ground in Zvārde

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

Aegna Island

Writers' Union building

Stebel Coastal Battery No 315, Command Post

Iron tank bridge over the Bērze River

Lāčplēsis (Aleksandras) Gate

Jelgava Airport

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Vaiņode station

Mazirbe Nautical School

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

Closed ammunition depots built in the 1950s

Artillery arsenal

Nuclear warhead storage (hangar) in Plokštinė

Viesturs (Mihailas) Gate

Mangalsala Street

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

Oskara Kalpaka Bridge in Karosta

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

Mõntu 127mm beach defense battery

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

Artillery Officers' Building

Naval Communication Station in Undva

Anti-aircraft gun site at Āmurkalns

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

Valka train station

Liepāja Coastal Artillery Battery No. 2

Ferry Dignāja–Līvāni

Photo: J.Smaļinskis. The reconstructed tower

Fire correction tower of the Ventspils 46th Coastal Defence Battery

Orjaku Military Harbour

Jekeln headquarters in Talsi

Vecumnieki Railway Station

Former store/police building

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Ārdava (Jezufinova) Manor

A Set of Railway Bridge Structures in Kurmaičiai

Unity House

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

Iron bridge over the Gauja River in Valmiera

Bastion Powder Cellar

Šateikiai railway station

Zeppelin hangars of Riga Central market

Tahkuna Lighthouse

Concrete access road from Mārcienė to Gaiziņkalns via Bērzaunis

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

Užava Lighthouse

Latvian Radio's secret broadcasting site in Salaspils

Railway branch and platform

Soviet Army Observation Tower (Kurgan of Officers)

Mežaparks Grand Stage

"Daugava Path" (Düna Weg)

Pine Mountain

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

Military hospital

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

Latvian Army Spotlight Point

Šiauliai (Zapalskiai) nuclear arsenal - nuclear warhead storage facility

Food warehouse

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

Pakri Islands - Soviet aviation target range

Linkaicai Weapons Workshop

The author of the photo is Kęstutis Kilinskas.

“Memel-Nord” Coastal Artillery Battery

Ruhnu Lighthouse

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

Tempelhofas lauks (Tempelhofer Feld)

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Former Soviet border guard observation tower in Pāvilosta

Viktorija Mačiulaitytė. Archive of the Department of Cultural Heritage

Zokniai Air Base Hangar (KVR)

Cabinet of Ministers building

Pigeon post sea station in Karosta

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.