Memorial to the deportees at Amata station - echelon No. 97322
Memorial site

Located in Drabeši parish, Amata region, near the former Amata station building.

A memorial site for deportees with an information stand and a square can be visited.

A total of more than 42 thousand people were deported from Latvia in 33 echelons on March 25, 1949 and the following days.
On March 27, 1949, at two in the morning, 62 wagons departed from Amata Station - long echelon No. 97322 with 329 men, 596 women, and 393 children.

The central object will be 1,318 metal poles of various sizes and colors. Each of them symbolizes a person deported from the then Cēsis and Alūksne counties on March 25, 1949. Each pole bears the name, surname, year of birth and parish of the deportee – from which place they were deported. At the moment, 394 poles have been installed with the support of the deportees themselves or their relatives, and 932 more poles are needed.
The author of the idea, Pēteris Ozols, also has his own column, but still with the surname of that time - Ozoliņš, who was taken from Kosa parish to "Pērkoņiem" at the age of six with his family on March 26, 1949.
The information stand contains information about the 1949 deportation and the operation "Priboi" (Coast Wave) carried out by the repressive organs of the USSR in the occupied Baltic States, which was the basis for the deportation.