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The Brothers’ Cemetery memorial in Riga, unveiled in 1936, is the most prominent and biggest monument from the times of the first Latvian state. Its main author is Karlis Zale. The memorial is devoted to the soldiers killed during the World War I and Latvian War of Independence (1915-1920). The cemetery contains about 2000 burials of heroes and about 200 unknown soldiers.
The memorial consists of the 205 m long Road of Thoughts, Heroes Terrace with the altar of eternal fire encircled by an oak grove, burial ground with the Latvian Wall at the end and the sculpture of the Mother Latvia with its killed sons. The memorial of the Brothers’ Cemetery with its striking artistic expression is the Latvian national pride, moreover, it is the first such memorial in Europe. Thousands of people visit the memorial on commemoration days in order to remember the heroes killed in their fight for independence of Latvia, as well as to draw inspiration for the future.
In Esplanade, near Elizabete Street, in front of the Ministry of Defence, one can see a modern monument devoted to the Colonel Oskars Kalpaks, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Latvian Armed Forces, killed in a battle.

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