Полигон Зварде и бывшая советская военная база "Лапсас"
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The landfill's service base is located approximately 2 kilometres east of Striķu Manor, on the Saldus-Auce road. The former Soviet Military Aviation Target Range (military unit No 15439) in Zvārde is located south of Saldus. The territory of the airfield is home to several sights - the ruins of Zvārde and Ķerkliņi churches, the ruined Rīteļi cemetery, the observation post of the airfield, the so-called "Officers' Kurgan" and the former airfield personnel base and shooting range "Lapsas".
The Zvārde air target range required a unit of approximately one company to service the air target range - to install targets, repair damage, guard the air target range and coordinate air flights. It was based on the site of the house called "Lapsas" until the Second World War. With the construction of the airfield, barracks, transport sheds, a flight control tower and a firing range for training personnel were built.
After Latvia regained its independence, the Zvārde Defence Forces Training Centre operated here, but since 2007 the site has been owned by the municipality and leased by several hunting collectives. The former barracks house an exhibition on the history of Zvārde parish.
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Советская авиация бомбит кладбище Рители
Кладбище Рители фактически находилось в центре зоны поражения. Местные жители могли только наблюдать за тем, как их уничтожают.
Детство Звардениеки в тени взрывов бомб - Лето на полигоне
Мое детство я провел в окрестностях полигона Зварде, под звуки взрывов и пролетающих реактивных самолетов, но все же иногда по выходным я мог зайти на полигон. После ухода советской армии земля была усеяна воронками от бомб и множеством взрывоопасных предметов не только времен полигона, но и времен Второй мировой войны.
Zvārdenieka's childhood in the shadow of bomb explosions - Phosphorus capsules
Spending my childhood in the vicinity of the Zvārde target range, under the sounds of explosions and flying jet planes, but still sometimes on weekends I could enter the range. After the departure of the Soviet army, the land was littered with bomb craters and many explosive objects, not only from the time of the landfill, but also from the 2nd World War. Especially the boys liked to burn phosphorus capsules ...
Zvārdenieka's childhood in the shadow of bomb explosions - the fallen plane
The use of the landfill continued until 1992, and even in March 1992, a plane that took off from Lielvārde crashed in the territory of the landfill for unknown reasons.