The headquarters bunker of the Žvelgaitis team
Bunker

The bunker is located in the Gulbinai Forest.

The Kunigaikštis Žvelgaitis detachment was a Northern Lithuanian partisan unit belonging to the Prisikėlimų apygardas, which fought against the Soviet occupation from April 1948 to May 1952. The detachment operated in Joniškis County and part of Šiauliai and Mažeikiai Counties.

The Žvelgaitis squad had a hideout in the Gulbinai forest, which was discovered by soldiers of the MGB internal security unit on March 19, 1952. At that time, 5 partisans from the headquarters of the Prisikėlimų district Kunigaikštis Žvelgaitis squad were in the bunker, 3 of whom - Boleslovas Kriščiūnas-Puntukas (squad commander), Izidorius Miškūnas-Barzda (chief of the squad headquarters) and Stasys Šepkus-Šernas (chief of the Intelligence Department of the squad headquarters) were killed.

The last partisans of Prince Žvelgaitis's squad, Steponas Erstikis-Patašonas, Konstantinas Liuberskis-Žvainys and Julius Adomaitis-Erdvilas, published the newspaper "Partizanų šūviams aidint" (In the Echo of Partizan Shots) in 1952–1956, and "Partizanų šūvių aidas" (Echo of Partizan Shots) in 1956–1957.

In 1998, the bunker was restored, a memorial plaque was installed, and a memorial cross, created by folk artist A. Ganusauskas, was erected near the bunker.