Military Heritage Tourism - Infrastructure

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Narrow gauge railway in Biržai

The author of the photo is Kęstutis Kilinskas.

“Memel-Nord” Coastal Artillery Battery

Torņakalns Church. 2021. Photo: U. Neiburgs

Riga Lutheran Evangelical Lutheran Church

The pillars of the former German army bridge near Radze

Lēni Manor in 2020. Photo: Līga Landsberga

Great Electoral Dam (Große Kurfürsten Damm)

Abandoned Soviet Army oil base in Borovka

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

Daugavmala (11. November Embankment)

Liepaja Police Building or "Blue Miracle"

Collection of Soviet Military Vehicles

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

Latgale Artillery Regiment Army Barracks

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

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

The Daile Theatre building today. Photo: Z. Bitere

Tempelhofas lauks (Tempelhofer Feld)

A Set of Railway Bridge Structures in Kurmaičiai

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

Iron bridge over the Gauja River in Valmiera

The airfield section of the Biržai–Pandėlys road

Zeppelin hangars of Riga Central market

Liepāja Coastal Artillery Battery No. 2

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

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

Latvian Radio's secret broadcasting site in Salaspils

Soviet Army Observation Tower (Kurgan of Officers)

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.

Closed ammunition depots built in the 1950s

Open ammunition depots, lightning conductors, wells

Orjaku Military Harbour

“Nordmolle” Air Defence Battery

Gulbene depot, Saloon car No. 572699-698047

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral. Karosta Prison Archives

Karosta St.Nicholas Orthodox Sea Cathedral

Barta missile base

Former World War I-era railway: Vecumnieki - Mercendarbe

Šateikiai ground missile base

Anti-aircraft gun site at Āmurkalns

Photographer Salvijus Kulevičius. Collection of S.Kulevičius

Šeikiškiai (Moletai) Anti-Aircraft Missile Base

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

Commandant's Administration Building

Military hospital

Border checkpoint in Kudani

Šiauliai (Zapalskiai) nuclear arsenal - nuclear warhead storage facility

Papissaare Seaplane Base

Former Telšiai Prison

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

Mõntu 127mm beach defense battery

French Commissariat in Klaipėda

Viktorija Mačiulaitytė. Archive of the Department of Cultural Heritage

Zokniai Air Base Hangar (KVR)

Užava Lighthouse

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

Aukštaitija barge railway

Riga Congress Center

Kogula (Mõnnuste) airfield

German Army concrete tower (by the beach)

Eastern (Mangalsala) Pier

Ruhnu Lighthouse

Naval Communication Station in Undva

Soldiers' barracks

Ferry Dignāja–Līvāni

Information stand by the road. Photo: Jana Kalve

Zvārde shooting range and former Soviet military base "Lapsas"

Karosta Water Tower

Zokniai airfield

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

Pakri Islands - Soviet aviation target range

Concrete access road from Mārcienė to Gaiziņkalns via Bērzaunis

Hullo border outpost

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

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Northern Camp

Photo: J.Smaļinskis. The reconstructed tower

Fire correction tower of the Ventspils 46th Coastal Defence Battery

Vecumnieki Railway Station

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

Dome Square in Old Riga

Photo: Museum of the National Resistance Movement

Strazde Manor

Cabinet of Ministers building

Ķeizerdambis (Kaiser - Damm)

The Great Guild

Keruspils (Jekabpils) Airport

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

Latvian Military Aviation Airport

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

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

Latvian Army Spotlight Point

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

The first railway station in Latvia in Kārsava and the village of Bozova

North Pier and Battery No.3 in Karosta

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

“Memel Sud” Coastal Artillery Battery

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

Parliament House (Saeima)

Saxby (Vormsi) lighthouse

Oskara Kalpaka Bridge in Karosta

Oviši Lighthouse and Soviet border guard

Linkaicai Weapons Workshop

Unity House

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

The railway bridge over the river Rauna

Vaiņode air base

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

Mazirbe boat cemetery

Soviet border guard post in Jūrmalciems

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

Bastejkalns neighborhood in Riga

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

Artillery Officers' Building

Viesturs (Mihailas) Gate

Oriküla Command Centre and Missile Base

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Former Soviet border guard observation tower in Pāvilosta

Chemical warehouse and bypass road

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

Latvian Popular Front headquarters in Riga

Pelči Manor

Former store/police building

Soviet air force target firing ground in Zvārde

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

Lokatoru hill

Bastion Powder Cellar

“Ramovė” Villa club of Lithuanian Officers

Water-lifting building

Ekspozīcija Latvijas armija 20 gs 20 gados

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

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

Railway bridge over Amata

Latvian soldiers’ former medical warehouse

Stebel Coastal Battery No 315, Command Post

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Vaiņode station

Railway branch and platform

Artillery arsenal

Pigeon post sea station in Karosta

Pine Mountain

Fortifications of the Daugava River Mouth

Mērsrags lighthouse and former border guard

Rata Hill

Watch tower of border guards in Salacgrīva

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

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

Iron tank bridge over the Bērze River

Writers' Union building

Alksnynė Defence Complex

Jekeln headquarters in Talsi

Jelgava Airport

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

Prince Leopold Road (Prinz – Leopold Straße)

Fortress (Commandant's) Garden

Naissaar

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

Mazirbe border guard tower

Daudzeva - Sunākstes - Viesītes narrow gauge railway

Spitham Radar Station

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

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.

Lāčplēsis (Aleksandras) Gate

Hara Harbor and Submarine base

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

Jēkabpils Guards House (now the People's House)

Nuclear warhead storage (hangar) in Plokštinė

Factory "Kurzeme tsela"

"Daugava Path" (Düna Weg)

Taurkalne German army warehouse site

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

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Ārdava (Jezufinova) Manor

Ristna Lighthouse

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

Lugaži railway station

World War I battlefields

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.