National and Soviet partisan battles and memorial sites in the Grīva Forest
Battle site

Located in the Grīva forest massif.
Six objects related to the sites of national and Soviet partisan battles can be viewed.
The Grīva forest massif is home to not only the headquarters of the “Purvsaliņi” national partisans, the White Cross in the national partisan bunker and the cross to the commander of the resistance movement Andrejs Roskošs, but also the grave of the commander of the Soviet partisan brigade Artūrs Baložs, a monument on the so-called Meiteņu kalninė, where a group of young partisans of the Soviet partisan brigade perished in 1944, as well as a monument to Soviet partisans with a five-pointed star and the engraved words “We covered ourselves with our needles.”

The objects can also be viewed by going on a bicycle ride on cycle route No. 785 - "Historical Rhymes in the Grīva Forests" (route length 34 km, gravel and forest roads). Map for download.

Memorial to the commander of the national partisan group Andrejs Roskošs (GPS 56.87399, 27.43524)
In the autumn of 1997, a White Cross was unveiled in the Lielgrīva Forest for the commander of the national partisan group, Andrejs Roskoš.

Monument to Artūrs Balodis (GPS 56.872926, 27.478121)
Artūrs Balodis was a Soviet partisan, a special operations commander for the A subunit, which was stationed in the Grīva forest massif. He fell during a large-scale “combing” carried out by the Nazi German occupiers. His comrades carved the letters AB into a birch tree at the place where he died so that he would not forget it. After the war, local historians found the marked birch tree and installed a memorial plaque in its place.

To all those who fell in the Grīva forests (GPS 56.863280, 27.47975)
This memorial stone in the Grīva forest massif has been installed by the State Enterprise “Latvijas valsts meži” in honor of the partisans who fought for their homeland. Next to the memorial stone is a map-scheme with indications of partisan headquarters - sightseeing objects. A recreation area has also been established. Nearby is the site of the national partisan settlement, 1945-1947.

National partisan settlement site (GPS 56.863456, 27.481148)
This place was home to the settlements of national partisans who fought against the Soviet occupation. The sites of individual bunkers have survived, from the visual appearance of which one can judge how large and what shape the dugouts were. National partisans, resisting Soviet rule, operated in the Grīva forests for several years after the end of World War II.

Girls' Hill (GPS 56.858187, 27.521526)
In June 1944, the Nazi German occupiers carried out a large-scale “combing” of the Grīva forests with the aim of destroying the partisans. The soldiers surrounded the farm company on Numerne Hill, which consisted mostly of young girls, and all of them were shot. Since these tragic events, the locals have renamed Numerne Hill as Meiteņu Hill. A memorial stone has been erected at this place.