Tauragė railway station building

The spruce railway station building, designed by Edmundas Alfonsas Frykas (1876-1944) according to classical architectural style traditions in 1927-1928, is located near Tremtinių Street and catches they eye with its bright façades. The building has retained its authentic volumes and spatial configuration, exterior metal details, interior flooring, staircase rails and an occasional enamelled information plate.
The front façade is decorated with a coat of arms, featuring the Columns of Gediminas. During the Soviet era it was hidden under plaster, but found and recovered during the renovation in 2003. The inside is predominated with a two-storey waiting hall. Before the war the second floor also contained apartments for railway workers and some people live there today as well. This station hasn’t received any passenger trains for a while now.
The railway station and its platform are the witnesses of very painful moments in the ming of the first livestock carriages for the deportees. In 1945-1953, such carriages used to leave the station for Siberia several times a year.
In 2003, the city has opened a black memorial plate to commemorate the dark page of history, with the following words: ‘On 14/06/1941 and in 1945-1953 this station saw Lithuanian citizens exiled to the depths of the Soviet Union on a massive scale’.

Compiled in 2018