Military Heritage Tourism - Military towns

Study tours in nature FOR STUDENTS: If your child's class also wants to spend a quality day in nature, to:
👉 improve mutual communication, trust and cooperation;
👉 spend time together in nature without a phone (digital detox);
👉 learn useful survival skills in order to be able to take care of your health and the lives of people around you in crisis situations,
then call the SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL ☎️ 26442462 and request a student excursion.
☘️ The students of Riga and Pieriga go to Baldoni
☘️ Liepāja, Ventspils, Kuldīga students to Pāvilost, where the SURVIVAL SCHOOL training and camp center is located.

Near Lake Platelia, in the forests of Ploštinė in 1960. the construction of the underground base for launching thermonuclear missiles "Dvina" was started. in 1962 at the end of December, the first combat alert was announced at the base. In four 30-year-olds 4 R-12U type medium-range ballistic missiles armed with thermonuclear warheads are deployed in deep shafts. They were intended to destroy Western European countries.

The top secret facility required a large amount of military equipment and service and command personnel. For that purpose, a town with 30 buildings was established 500 m from the missile launch site. The entire facility occupied an area of about 12 hectares, surrounded by as many as 6 protective fences.

What happened here, what was the purpose of the buildings and what fate befell the military town and what secrets Ploštinė forest still keeps, you will find out on the excursion...

When you visit this top-secret military facility, during a two-hour guided adventure, you will find out where the nuclear warheads were assembled and how they were transported, what components are needed for a complete missile launch, during the creative activities "Tuthead", "Radist's letter", "Save what you can" and a tour at the nuclear missile base. for assembly and whether missiles have ever been launched from this base. You will stay in the Communications hangar and decipher a secret message, visit several bomb shelters and find out where the missile launch button was.