Die Küstegeschützbatterie von Akmensrags

Being the border area and because of Russians, the surroundings of Akmensrags became quite scarcely populated. Earlier there were many homesteads along the river Rudupe (Rudenieki) and by Akmensrags (Radzenieki) river. People were driven out from these places. Tālis Vaiders, also known as Tālivaldis Sils (1927 - ?) has described it in his story “Rudenieki.” Five years ago, I tried with a school group to find the names and explore the sites of the former farmsteads. We put up oak plates with the names of the homesteads where they stood once.
In Akmensrags, they wanted to build a nuclear power station. In the end of the 1980-ies, the issue was raised in media and so the village councils got to know about it. In 1989, everybody remembered well what had just happened in Chernobyl. All villages livened up and the most active people in all villages - Saka, Pāvilosta, Medze, Vērgale – campaigned against it. I initiated a letter to LKPCK (the Central Committee of the Latvian Communist Party), to the newspaper “Cīņa”. We demanded to cancel building of the nuclear power plant and motivated our request saying we did not want the catastrophe of Chernobyl to repeat, and we did not want the deportations of the 1940 to repeat. The letter was very pathetic. At the same time, a man from Saka was asking people to sign against the nuclear power plant. He gathered 10 000 signatures. We organised a meeting with the team of the TV program “Labvakar!”. The team of three people came to the Akmensrags lighthouse: journalists Inkēns and Rubenis, and a cameraman. We went up the lighthouse and we went to the place where the construction site was supposed to be. People say that there used to be an oak pole (though, I did not see it) with a signpost in Russian and Latvian: “In this place the Nuclear Power Plant of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic will stand!” The place is on the seaside, approximately 1km towards Pāvilosta from the lighthouse. We made a big noise, but probably we did not need to do it because the Soviet Union collapsed.