Former Plungė police station building (NKVD headquarters)
Memorial site

The building was built around 1932-1935. Until 1931, a wooden house with a hotel and restaurant owned by merchant Chaim Rest stood on the site of the current building. The restaurant was one of the best and most visited in Plungė. On March 31, 1931, the great fire of Plungė is believed to have started from a wooden building standing on this site. It spread and destroyed most of the houses in the city. 90% of Jewish and 10% of Lithuanian houses were affected by the fire.

Later, a modernist-style building was built on the site of the burned-down house, forming the current corner of Vytautas and J. Tumo-Vaižgantas streets. In 1944-1954, the building housed the NKVD-MVD-MGB Plungė rural subdivision and the headquarters of the stribes, where Lithuanian citizens who were unfavorable to the Soviet order were detained, interrogated and tortured.

Later, the building was home to the militia. After the restoration of Independence, the building was left to the care of the police. For a long time, the Plungė police station operated in it. Through the efforts of Zita Paulauskaitė, an employee of the Plungė District Municipality Public Library, on June 14, 1990, a commemorative plaque was unveiled noting that the building housed the NKVD headquarters. The building is currently included in the cultural heritage register. Various commercial enterprises currently operate in it.