Memorial plaque dedicated to the Commander-in-Chief of the Latvian Army Jānis Balodis
Memorial site

Located in Daugavpils Fortress, on the wall of the building, opposite the parking lot.

A memorial plaque says that in this house (there were officers' houses on Oficieru Street) lived the Commander-in-Chief of the Latvian Army during the War of Independence – General Jānis Balodis (1881-1965). The memorial plaque with the following text was unveiled in the interwar period – on September 29, 1936, when the Latvian Army was located in the Daugavpils Fortress.

It was removed after 1940, but was reinstalled in 2020 by the Daugavpils Heritage association.