Commemorative sign dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way
Memorial site

During the campaign “Baltic Road” on August 23, 1989, people from Kurzeme and Zemgale - Liepāja, Saldus, Dobele, Kuldīga, Ventspils, Talsi, Tukums and their surroundings arrived on the Riga - Bauska highway section. The main task was to achieve the most even distribution of people and continuity of the chain. Where there was not enough arm length, people were asked to use flags, belts, or even jacket sleeves, just so that the blood circulation of community in this artery would not be interrupted. In total, about 400,000 Latvian residents participated in this campaign.

The memorial sign dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way in Ķekava municipality, at the 25th kilometer of the Riga-Bauskas highway near the Ķekaviņa River, was unveiled on August 23, 2014. Its ceremonial opening was attended by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia, Laimdota Straujuma, a long-time employee of the State Joint-Stock Company “Latvijas Valsts ceļi” and a member of the Baltic Way, Uldis Birzleja, and other attendees. In 2014, 10 such memorial signs were erected on the Baltic Way section of Latvia in memory of this event. Four memorial signs were erected in Estonia, and nine in Lithuania. On July 30, 2009, the Baltic Way campaign was included in the UNESCO “Memory of the World” documentary heritage list.