Partizanų keliais Aukštaitijoje

In Utena, not far from the intersection of the Kaunas–Daugavpils (A6) and Vilnius–Utena (A14) highways.

The museum was established in 2015 in the former Utena narrow-gauge railway station. As it is presented, it is a museum that breathes poetry and subtly reveals the truth of the post-war period. The exhibition “Common European Identity in the Context of Totalitarian Regimes” offers to learn about the past of all of Lithuania and Europe through the history of one Lithuanian region. It tells about the division of Europe in 1939 according to secret protocol agreements, the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the forced participation of Lithuanians in World War II, exile, post-war resistance and the creation of collective farms in the Utena region. The painful events of 1940–1965 in the Utena region and Lithuania are revealed by comparing them with life behind the Iron Curtain.

The history of the narrow gauge railway station also bears a tragic imprint. From here, in 1941 and 1945–1953, wagons with deportees rolled to Siberia.

In Šimoniai Forest, driving along road 1216 (there is a directional sign and a stand).

Šimonias Forest was the center of operations of the largest partisan unit of Aukštaitija, Algimantas District, during the post-war Lithuanian partisan struggles. In 1945, about 200 partisans were active in this district, and in 1952, only 20-30 partisans. From 1947–1949, the hideouts of the commanders of the Eastern Lithuanian (King Mindaugas) partisan region, Captain Jonas Kimštos-Žalgiris, and Antanas Starkus-Montė, who took over the latter's duties in 1949, were established in Šimonias Forest - command posts from which the partisan movement in Aukštaitija was led. The Algimantas District Partisan Struggle Route invites you to get acquainted with 6 partisan hideouts of Algimantas District, which were set up and where partisans of the Žaliojis, Šarūnas and Kunigaikštis Margis squads hid and fought. Two walking routes of different lengths (5 km and 10 km) have been established in Šimoniai Forest, inviting you to travel along the partisan paths.

After passing the Anrioniškis town cemetery (there are signs).

This hideout housed the Eastern Lithuanian (King Mindaugas) regional headquarters of the Lithuanian partisans from 1944 to 1949. In the summer of 1944, Balys Žukauskas founded the hideout with his brothers Petras and Juozas Jovaišas and began hiding from the mobilization into the Red Army announced in 1944. At the end of 1945, Antanas Slučka-Šarūnas began visiting the hideout, who was the first to establish a partisan detachment in the Troškūnai area, and later united the partisans of Rokiškis, Anykščiai, Kavarskas, Troškūnai and Andrioniškis into the Šarūnas detachment. In 1947, A. Slučka-Šarūnas became the commander of the Algimantas regional district, and in 1949, the commander of the Eastern Lithuanian region. This means that from 1949, the hideout became the headquarters of the Eastern Lithuanian region. The hideout, which had successfully sheltered partisans for five years, was betrayed on October 28, 1949. After MGB military units surrounded the homestead, the partisans hiding there blew themselves up, refusing to surrender.

Currently, a bunker has survived, a cross has been erected, and a monument to the dead has been erected.

In the center of the town of Troškūnai, Anykščiai district, next to the Holy Trinity Church.

During the partisan war of 1944–1953, the territory of Lithuania was divided into 9 partisan districts. In 1947–1950, the Lithuanian partisan Algimantas district operated in the Panevėžys and Anykščiai areas, the establishment of which is closely linked to Troškūnas. The residents of this town organized partisan units in Aukštaitija. The first commander of the Algimantas district, Antanas Slučka-Šarūnas, was born and lived in Troškūnas.

In 1996, at the initiative of the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center, a monument was erected in Troškūnai dedicated to the partisans of Algimantas County. The author of the monument was sculptor Jonas Jagėla and architect Audronė Kiausinienė. The main part of the monument is a black stone gate, which symbolizes those who left to defend the Homeland and did not return. The bronze crosses installed on the sides of the gate symbolize the Christian faith, and the bronze sword, like the sword of the archangel St. Michael, symbolizes the light of faith and hope. In the square in front of the monument, black stone slabs commemorate three Algimantas County teams - Šarūnas, Žaliojis and Duke Margis.

In the central part of Panevėžys city.

The exhibition is located in an authentic location – the headquarters of the Panevėžys group of the Lithuanian Reform Movement. Panevėžys members of the Movement have been working here since October 1988.

In 2004, an exhibition dedicated to the resistance to the Soviet occupation and the Lithuanian Movement was opened in the building. The exhibition reveals the scale and forms of the nation's resistance from June 15, 1940 to March 11, 1990, introduces the most important stages and events of the anti-Soviet movement, and the repressions carried out by the Soviets.

In the central part of Panevėžys city.

At the end of the 19th century, the houses built by the famous Panevėžys citizens Moigai were expropriated by the Soviets. In 1940–1941, they housed the headquarters of a Soviet army unit, the NKGB Panevėžys district interrogation department, and the militia. One night in June 1941, the Soviet occupiers tortured three doctors from the Panevėžys hospital and four other people in the basement of this house. In 1944–1953, the NKVD–MVD–MGB Panevėžys district (since 1950, the district) department was located here. Now it is the premises of the Panevėžys Museum of Local Lore.

The exhibition "In the Grip of Occupations" reviews the Nazi and Soviet occupations. It introduces the topics of Jewish and Roma genocide, deportations, and partisan warfare. The section of the exhibition dedicated to 1953–1990 presents the everyday life of life in the "Khrushchevka", Soviet efforts to create a Soviet society and people's resistance to this oppression, and underground activities. You can hear a recording of a radio broadcast secretly listened to from abroad with Soviet interference.

The exhibition "Red Terror" is dedicated to the memory of the victims murdered in the basement of this house and shot near the Panevėžys sugar factory, and to the history of the crimes of the Soviet occupiers. The hopes of free people and their crushing after the Soviets came are allegorically expressed through spaces - the interior of the apartment of the tortured compassionate sister Zinaida Kanis-Kanevičienė from the times of Independent Lithuania and a replica of the NKVD interrogator's office.

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.

After turning off the regional road 3604 (Rokiškis – Maineivos – Naujasodė) between Juodupė and Žobiškis towards Plunksnočiai forest

Hiding from persecution and prying eyes, Lithuanian partisans built bunkers in the strangest and most unexpected places: in forest thickets, farmers' baths, under sheds and barns, on floating islands in lakes and swamps.

in 1947 The partisans of the Gediminas company of Duke Margis' selection, under the leadership of commander Juoz Bulovas-Iks, gathered in the massif of Plunksnočiai forest. Until 1948 they didn't have a permanent wintering place, they hid with people who supported them. Although today there is a green forest around Plunksnočiai bunker that is easy to cross and suitable for a walk, but after the Second World War, the bunker was surrounded by a swampy forest with a small hill in the middle of the swamp. in 1949 it was in the hill that the partisans set up a hiding place. However, an infiltrated Russian security agent who knew the location of the bunker was betrayed. He in 1949 on November 14, when the partisans were sleeping, they threw anti-tank grenades into the bunker. 7 partisans were killed.

The partisan bunker was rebuilt, a cross with the names of those who died there was erected. A memorial monument and information signs have been installed on the site a few tens of meters from the bunker on the initiative of Rokiškis young shooters.

In Obeliai, Vytauto St. (Obeliai–Zarasai road, KK117) on the left side (there is a directional sign).

The museum was founded in 1998. It presents the development of the Lithuanian state, the history of the Obeliai region, Lithuanian folk art, and a large part of the exposition is devoted to the theme of the struggle for freedom. It is not for nothing that this museum is presented as an institution of patriotic and national education.

Exhibits testifying to the struggle for freedom were collected and donated to the museum by teacher and former partisan Andrius Dručkus (1928–2018). The exhibits were painstakingly collected as a personal collection during the years of Soviet occupation, and they were successfully protected from the watchful eye of Soviet security. A. Dručkus was also the initiator of the establishment of this museum.

In addition to the themes of Soviet repression, exile, partisan warfare, anti-Soviet resistance and Sąjūdis, common to all of Lithuania, conveyed through the experience of the Obeliai region, the museum also stands out with its own unique accents. The history of the emergence, destruction and restoration of the unique monument to the June 1941 insurgents and victims of Soviet terror in Obeliai is revealed. The Lithuanian national defense system after 1990 is introduced, and an exhibition of uniforms of the Lithuanian army and other structures is presented. The museum's outdoor exhibition has built replicas of the Lithuanian partisan bunker and the exile barrack in Siberia. They can be visited, and special educational programs are offered to get to know the everyday life of partisans and exiles, to feel what it means to live in a bunker or barrack.

The museum is located in the building where the Obeliai parish NKVD-MVD-MGB subdivision and the headquarters of the stribes operated in 1944–1953, imprisoning, interrogating and torturing Lithuanian people.

It is accessible from the town of Antazavė via forest roads.

At the end of 1944, the Lithuanian partisan Lokis detachment was formed in the Antazavė area of northeastern Lithuania, led by former Lithuanian army officer Captain Mykolas Kazanas. The emerging detachment set up five low-lying areas on a hill densely covered with fir and pine trees near Lake Vincežeris, in the Antazavė forest.

On December 26, 1944 (according to some sources, December 27), the Battle of Antazavė took place in this place, which was one of the largest partisan battles in Eastern Lithuania. The partisan camp, fortified with trenches, was surrounded by military units deployed in the Soviet troops in the Utena and Zarasai garrisons and in the Antazavė parish. After a day-long battle, 85 partisans managed to break through the encirclement ring and successfully withdraw. One partisan was killed during the withdrawal.

Currently, two partisan dugouts have been installed at the site of the partisan camp and battle, a cross and a memorial plaque have been erected, and benches for campers have been installed. The partisan dugouts are distinguished by their size, they are relatively large and massive underground structures, different from the partisan bunkers built later in the forests of Lithuania.