Monument to the volunteers of the Pušalota region
Memorial site

The monument was erected in the Northern Lithuania region where the partisans of the Joniškėlis region were active in 1918–1920. In the spring of 1919, soldiers of the Joniškėlis partisan battalion Juozas Zakarevičius and Juozas Gasiūnas died in a battle with the Bolsheviks near the village of Bernatonys (now Panevėžys district), and two more - Kazys Skvereckas and Kazys Šidagis - were taken prisoner and shot in Panevėžys. A few months later, the bodies of the killed partisans were found, transported and buried in the Pušalotas churchyard. In 1928, thanks to the efforts of the spring partisans and former comrades, a monument depicting a stepped pyramid was erected on the soldiers' graves, and its author was the architect Vladas Švipas, who came from the Pušalotas parish. This monument is also notable for the fact that in 1937 his model was exhibited at the Paris World Exhibition.