Partisan Bunker in Žadeikiai Forest Bunker

The forest is accessible by a forest road, which is accessed after passing Rinkūnas and the Pyvesa River on road 3111.

Northern Lithuania, and especially the regions of Pasvalys and Joniškis, have had strong traditions of partisan warfare since the time of the War of Independence in 1918–1940. The first partisan units were organized here. These traditions, although not very clearly, continued after World War II, and in 1944, individual partisan units began to form in the region.

In 1944–1946, Jonas Alenčikas Dragūnas was the commander of a partisan unit operating in the Žadeikiai Forest. In 1945, the partisans under his command set up a fairly large bunker in the Žadeikiai Forest, measuring 30 m in length and 6 m in width. A bunker of this size perfectly reflects the first stage of the Lithuanian partisan battles, when the partisans operated in large groups and lived in spacious bunkers or forest camps. The bunker was destroyed during the battle, but after the restoration of Lithuania's independence, the bunker was rebuilt by the Pasvalys Rifle Company. Currently, the bunker is under the care of the Pasvalys Local History Museum, a partisan campsite has been restored next to the bunker, and a new memorial cross and information stand have been erected.