Memorial stone at Virguļica Memorial site
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Located in Virguļica Nature Reserve, Pededze Parish, Alūksne Municipality.
The memorial stone was unveiled on October 12, 2018. Stonemason Ainārs Zelčs
Here, the settlements were formed by the group of the national partisan Rūdolfs Koemecs (“Engineer”), which included Estonian partisans, as well as the liaison and organizer of the publication and distribution of illegal press publications Velta Kromule. On November 8, 1951, in a clash with the fighters of the internal affairs troops, the national partisan bunker near Virguļica was blown up.
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In 2015, the head of the politically repressed club “Sarma” in Alūksne and Ape regions, Dzidra Mazika, and the club members, updated the research on the activities of the participants of the national resistance movement in Alūksne and Ape regions. As part of this cycle of events, the sites of partisan activity were investigated, photo and video recording was taken, eyewitness memories were recorded, these sites were cleaned up, memorial sites were created and opened. Active participants in the research on the activities of the National Resistance Movement were: Dzidra Mazika, head of the politically repressed club “Sarma” in Alūksne and Ape regions; historian Astrīda Ievedniece, veterans of the 31st battalion of the National Guard and Chief Juris Ločs, as well as the Alūksne region municipality.
