Mazeikiai Railway Station Memorial site

The railway station is located in the central part of the city of Mažeikiai, therefore it became the axis of urban development. It began operating on September 4, 1871, next to the newly built Liepaja-Romnai railway line. The passenger hall built in 1876 became the first brick building, around which the city gradually formed. A few years later, Mažeikiai (at that time called the city of Muravjov) was connected to Riga.

Until 1918, the station, like the city of Mažeikiai, was called after the Vilnius Governor-General Muravjov, nicknamed "Korik" and famous for suppressing the 1863-1864 uprising. Many historical figures visited the station: during the First World War, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Imperial Germany dined in the station's restaurant, where the Bermontin commander, Colonel Bermontas-Avalovas, was promoted to general, and in 1927, the President of the First Republic of Lithuania, Antanas Smetona, visited the station. Clashes between the defenders of Lithuanian freedom and the Mažeikiai Company and the Red Latvian Riflemen, who operated on the side of the Red Army, took place near the station.

In 1941 and after the war, residents of the Mažeikiai region were deported from the station. Among them was four-year-old Bronė Liaudinaitė-Tautvydienė (chairwoman of the Mažeikiai branch of the Lithuanian Association of Political Prisoners and Deportees) with her family and many other families.

Today, the station has not lost its original purpose, and a memorial plaque is attached to its wall, reminding of the 1941 and post-war deportations to the depths of Russia. Every year on June 14, the Day of Mourning and Hope is commemorated at the station.