revolt. Latvian agrarian reform After Latvian Land Reform of 1920 took effect, on September 15, 1925, the six grade elementary school of Kurmale started operating in Pelči Palace, which until then was located in the same building with the Board of Kurmale Parish on the Kuldiga-Aizpute road. The former parish office, a red brick building, is one of the oldest buildings in the parish. Fate of German colonists After the revolution of 1905, German colonists were deported to Kuldiga County on the initiative of some German barons. Colonists accounted for 35% of population in Kurmale parish and 37% in Planicas. The Germans had several schools which in 1924 moved to the newly built "Illuminating school". However, in the autumn of 1939 the Germans had to leave their Kurzeme homes and relocate to Germany. Period of Soviet rule On June 14, 1941, and again on March 25, 1949 total of 85 Kurmale residents and 145 Planica residents has been deported by Soviet authorities to Siberia. When the administrative division of free Latvia was destroyed in Soviet Latvia, the Kurmaale parish was also reorganized, adding and part of Turlava Parish. In the eastern part of the old parish, a new one was established - Ievkalnu parish (now Pelči Parish). In 1950 there were 4 villages in Kurmale and Planīca parishes: Kurmāle, Planīca, Vārdupe and Ievukalns. The first director of "Vilgāle" farm was Ilmārs Meņģis, and from 1963 to 1992 the farm was managed by Ottis Komarovskis. With good knowledge and skill in farming, being active, responsive, hospitable, Komarovsky was the only one in the Kuldiga district who worked as a farm manager for almost 30 years. During this time, a modern village was built on the shores of Lake Vilgale with multi-storey residential buildings, a government building, a kindergarten, a stage, a mechanical workshop and a sauna. Modern period The present Kurmāle parish is located within the boundaries of the Soviet era and is called Kurmāle (with the long "à"). Villages of Kurmāle parish Notable people Actor Ēvalds Valters was born in 1894 in Egleniekos, Planica Parish. Mārtiņš Kalns, a secretary and poet of the Kuldīga Town Board, was born in 1909 in the Saddle of Kurmāle Parish. Mirdza Dreimane, a ceramicist born in 1922 in Mazruļļi in Kurmaale Parish Gaida Grundberga, a sculptor born in 1928 in 'Ozolaine' Eduards Berklavs, a soviet dissident and Latvian statesman, one of the founders of