Museum of Battles in More Muziejus
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The museum is located in More, on the side of the V319 motorway. It is dedicated to the Battles of More between the Red Army and the Latvian Legion of the German Army in the autumn of 1944. The exhibit includes a mock-up of the battlefield, weapons, awards, soldiers’ uniforms and military equipment. The Battles of More Museum and Memorial Park was established by former soldiers of the Latvian Legion who participated in the Battles of More. The memorial park features trenches, dugouts and battlefields. The battles in the More area were only part of a large-scale operation of the Red Army Baltic Offensive involving a total of 900,000 soldiers and large numbers of military equipment units. A part of the German Army fortification system where Latvian legionnaires prevented the Red Army’s attempt to break out to Riga was located in the vicinity of More. This allowed the German Army to withdraw its forces from Estonia and avoid defeat. Red Army leaders expected the enemy’s resistance near More to be short-lived and stubbornly continued its unprepared and uncoordinated attacks, suffering heavy losses. Local advantages and the combat capabilities of the Latvian legionnaires played a significant role in the subsequent course of the war. More is home to the Latvian Legionnaires’ Brothers’ Cemetery and a Red Army Soldiers’ Cemetery.
Panaudoti šaltiniai ir literatūra:
Kuzmin, the Battle of Morres in September 1944. Sargs.lv, 2016. Available at: https://www.sargs.lv/lv/otrais-pasaules-kars/2016-10-20/mores-kaujas-1944-gada-septembri
Kovtunenko, the battle of R. Mores. Timermanis & Vējiņš. Riga. 2009
Edukacinės programos
Memorials of the Battle of the Sea of the Second World War
The Museum of Sea Battles features a well-organized open-air exhibition of military equipment, with the Red Army tank T-34 as its most prominent attraction. The indoor exposition is dedicated to the memory of the battles of More and their historically significant turning points during World War II and the events of World War I in More parish, and the battles for freedom in Latvia. Various local history exhibitions, 19th century. and 20th century household and craft items. Exhibitions of regional artisans and a wide selection of original souvenirs. In the museum, you can get the booklet "Memorial sites of the Mores Battles", which contains a brief description of the history and places of interest and other necessary information to independently visit the nearby Mores Battles Memorial Park with buildings of the ancient front line and the graves of the fallen soldiers' Brothers in Mores Parish.
Susijusi laiko juosta
Susijusi istorija
Unrecognized soldiers. The story of a battle officer.
The Battle of Mores is an episode of the end of the Second World War, which was of great importance in the further course of the war in the territory of Latvia. The Battle of Mores marks the war in the Sigulda line of defense in the territory of Mores Parish, which took place from September 25 to October 5, 1944. In the trenches of the Sigulda line of defense, about 12 km long, the soldiers of the 19th Division of the Latvian Legion, fighting heavy battles with 10 to 15 times the enemy's defeat for 10 days, stopped the Red / Soviet army units moving towards Riga.