Memorial stone near Virgulica Memorial site
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Located in Virguļica Nature Reserve, Pededze Parish, Alūksne District.
The memorial stone was unveiled on October 12, 2018. Akmeņkalis Ainārs Zelčs
The settlements here were formed by a group of national partisans Rūdolfs Koemecs (“Engineers”), which included Estonian partisans, as well as Velta Kromule, an associate and organizer of the publishing and distribution of illegal press publications. On November 8, 1951, a bunker of national guerrillas near Virgulica was blown up in a collision with internal military fighters.
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In 2015, Dzidra Mazika, the head of the club “Sarma”, politically repressed in Alūksne and Ape counties, and the members of the club updated the research of the activities of the members of the national resistance movement in Alūksne and Ape counties. During the cycle of this event, partisan locations were explored, photos and videos were recorded, eyewitness records were recorded, and these sites were cleaned up and commemorated. Active participants in the identification of the activities of the National Resistance Movement were: Dzidra Mazika, the leader of the club “Sarma” of the politically repressed Alūksne and Ape region; historian Astrīda Ievedniece, veterans and commander of the 31st National Guard Battalion Juris Ločs, as well as Alūksne municipality.
