Possible location of Otomars Oškalns bunker Bunker
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A remote and difficult-to-access location is a large forest massif about 200 m west of the Žega River and about 0.5 km southwest of the Žega floodplain. It is recommended to go to the mentioned place on foot or by bicycle, using LIDAR maps and geographical coordinates. In the mentioned place, there is a natural dune ridge about a kilometer long (in the W – E direction) and half a kilometer wide (in the N – S direction), covered with coniferous forest. In the upper parts of the northern and eastern slopes of the dune massif, there are well-preserved trenches, presumably from the Second World War. Harijs Jaunzems (a former engineer of the Ķegums HPP) believes that a bunker of a Red Army partisan unit formed by Otomars Oškalns was located in this area (the specific point is unknown).
Used sources and references:
1. The Story of Harry Jaunzema
2. Otomārs Oškalns, https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otom%C4%81rs_O%C5%A1kalns
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