Raudonoji armija užėmė Rygą
I Nepriklausomybės karai

Atroadas, Inčukalns, Atmodas Street 2.

On July 3, 2016, a monument to the first battle for Latvia's independence, dedicated to the Latvian National Guard (Die Lettländische Landeswehr), was unveiled. sides. Eižens Upmanis, the chairman of the Brothers' Cemetery Committee, concluded at the time that this could be the historically first monument to the combined Latvian and Baltic forces in the battle memorials outside the cemetery. At that time, Lieutenant Colonel Oskars Kalpaks was appointed commander of the Latvian units of the Latvian National Guard or Landesver, from whose units the later Latvian army grew and formed during the Freedom Fights.

In 1918, the entire territory of present-day Latvia had fallen into the hands of the German Empire and its troops. However, at the end of the summer and autumn of 1918, the situation began to end badly for Germany, and it was clear that it was only a matter of time before Germany would be forced to concede defeat in World War I. The Russian Empire, which included Latvia before World War I, had ceased to exist earlier, with the revolutions of February and October 1917. On November 18, 1918, the Republic of Latvia was proclaimed. After the ceasefire with the Entente on November 11, 1918, the German army, which was on the territory of Latvia, was no longer motivated for further warfare, and most of its soldiers simply wanted to return home.

Under such circumstances, it was clear that Latvia's defense depended primarily on the national guard formed by the people of Latvia. Initially, due to their education and relatively greater ability to self-organize, the greatest initiative in creating such a national guard was shown by the Baltic Germans living in Latvia. Russian soldiers also joined the National Guard. In order to ensure the supply of the National Guard with uniforms, weapons and other necessary resources, on December 7, 1918, the Provisional Government of Latvia entered into an agreement with the German representative August Vinnig, providing for the provision of the National Guard from the German army reserves in Latvia. This agreement stated, among other things, that the National Guard, officially known as the Latvian National Guard or in German, the die Lettländische Landeswehr, would be the armed forces of the Republic of Latvia.

Two soldiers of the Latvian Red Rifle Regiment (ie approximately 2,000 to 3,000 soldiers) who had previously experienced in World War I and the Russian Civil War faced the Latvian National Guard. Despite the experience and numerical superiority of the Red Army, the Latvian National Guard held Inčukalns for two days in fierce fighting, until finally, in the evening of January 1, 1919, to avoid siege, was forced to retire, losing 43 dead and several wounded, most of whom was taken captive by the Bolsheviks, where they were killed or died of starvation or disease.

Author: Artis Buks. Material: Boulder. The monument is made of large monolithic stone, which was found in Rolls near Jelgava.

Latvijos karo muziejus yra įsikūręs senamiestyje, netoli Laisvės paminklo, istoriniame gynybos pastate, vadinamame „Parako bokštu“. Muziejuje yra 11 eksponatų. Čia eksponuojami įvairūs ginklai, dokumentai, uniformos, apdovanojimai, ženkleliai ir kiti daiktai, pasakojantys apie kasdienį kareivio gyvenimą kare. Latvijos karo muziejus yra vienas seniausių muziejų Latvijoje. Jo ištakos siekia Pirmąjį pasaulinį karą. Muziejaus kolekciją daugiausia sudarė asmeniniai kareivių daiktai arba mūšio laukuose rasti daiktai. Latvijai atgavus nepriklausomybę, pagrindinis muziejaus tikslas tapo sukurti ekspoziciją apie Latvijos karo istoriją ir aktyvų gyventojų vaidmenį saugant savo žemę. 1937 m. muziejus buvo išplėstas ir techniškai buvo vienas moderniausių tuo metu Europoje. Parako bokštas buvo vienas iš Rygos įtvirtinimų bokštų. Kai kurie įrodymai siekia 1330 m., kai jis buvo minimas kaip „Smėlio bokštas“. Bokštas buvo sugriautas 1621 m., kai Rygą apgulė Švedijos armija. Tačiau 1650 m. buvo pastatytas naujas bokštas parakui ir ginklams laikyti. Nugriovus miesto įtvirtinimus, Parako bokštas išlieka vienu svarbiausių Rygos gynybos sistemos įrodymų.

"Laukgaļi" in Jūrkalne parish, the writer Kārlis Skalbe's place of residence in October-November 1944, while waiting for the refugee boat to Sweden.

The restored "Bambaļi" houses in Ošvalki, Jūrkalne parish, were one of the main places of settlement for boat refugees on the coast of Kurzeme.

Vārves "huts", a place in Ventspils county, which served as a temporary accommodation for Latvian refugees who were waiting for boats from Gotland to arrive in 1944.

1944-1945 in the prison set up in Livonia Oden Castle. In 2010, several members of the LCP Ventspils communication group and the movers of refugee boats were detained.

House at Lauku Street 4, Ventspils, where the teacher teacher Valentīne Lasmane (b. Jaunzeme) (1916–2018) lived and worked, who in 1944-1945 worked as LCP liaison and member of Ventspils communication group. Lived in Sweden after World War II. She compiled the testimonies of 130 boat refugees in the publication "Across the Sea 1944/1945." (Stockholm, 1990), but V. Lasmane's own life story can be read in the book "The night is not just for sleeping" (Riga, 2020). In 2000, she was awarded the Order of Three Stars. Died at the age of 102 in 2018 in the Stockholm suburb of Tebia.

In 1944, there was an active traffic of refugee boats to the shores of Sweden from Staldzene.

The coast of Mazirbe was an important place in the Second World War, from where the traffic of refugee boats to Sweden took place in 1944.