Memorial to the assassination of Kārlis Ulmanis

In 1928, a candidate for the position of forester Pēteris Purviņš (1895, Greizkalni, Ļaudonas parish - 1966, Ventspils) proposed organizing the first Forest Days in Varakļāni on May 12, 1928, but since 1930 they have been widely held throughout Latvia. The 1934 Forest Days in Lubāna were held on May 10–12. On May 10, 3 memorial oak trees were planted at the site where Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis was assassinated 14 years ago. This happened on April 15, 1920, and a hole dug by an explosion was still visible at that site. Representatives of Lubāna organizations, schools, and the intelligentsia responded to the invitation to plant memorial oak trees and planted the oak trees together. The Forest Days Committee participated in the planting of the memorial oak trees. They were located on newly-owned land, the owner of which had given his consent.
The publication of the Central Committee of the Forest Days also published two photographs – “Prime Minister K. Ulmanis on a trip to Lubāns in April 1920”. On August 11, 1939, a memorial plaque was installed at the place where on April 15, 1920, on the Lubāns-Dzelzavas road in a wooded area, an assassination attempt was made against Kārlis Ulmanis, who was then the Prime Minister of Latvia, who was driving in a car.

During the Soviet era, this plaque was destroyed.

The photograph, taken by Lubāna photographer Alfreds Grāvers (1877-1954), shows the arrival of Kārlis Ulmanis in Lubāna after the failed assassination attempt.

On November 18, 1988, representatives of the human rights group "Helsinki 86" installed the restored memorial at its previous location.
On August 11, 1989, a rally was held at “Liedeskrogā”, about which journalist Inese Andersone wrote in the newspaper “Madonas Atmoda”:
“I know that your name will be associated with the enthusiasm of Latvians throughout the centuries” – these lines, which Andrejs Pumpurs said about the hero of our legends Lāčplēsis, currently, remembering the president of our country Kārlis Ulmanis, we can fully apply to the president as well. So on the evening of August 11 in the “Liedeskrog” in the village of Indrāni, opening a rally dedicated to the 69th anniversary of the Latvia-Russia Peace Treaty and the consecration of the monument to K. Ulmanis, said the National Front member and museum worker Indulis Zvirgzdiņš. But we – those present, together with what he told us, entered the events of the past, which marked this place in April 1920 (here the red partisans tried to carry out a terrorist act against K. Ulmanis). We also returned to the present, because as many speakers – V. Lācis, Ž. Bezmers, K. Doropolskis, J. Vidins – the gathering is meaningful if we connect this memory with today. May our memory always tell us who we can believe in and who we cannot! May we be able to and believe in the idea of independence! Thank you to the Madona district branch of the group “Helsinki – 86” for the shared moment, for the renaissance of this deliberately overgrown place and memory.”
The newspaper also published a photo of Žanis Bezmer, showing a memorial stone with a plaque and the People's Front priest Albert Cimanovski addressing those present.