Asari (German: Assern [2][3][4])is a residential area and neighbourhood of the city of Jūrmala, Latvia.

Village inhabitants were not only fishing, but also cultivated strawberry that were brought from France[5] by one owner of the holiday cottage in 1877.

Asari is a popular holiday destination in Jūrmala - there used to be a water park just several hundred meters from the sea.

Monument was created by sculptor Mārtiņš Šmalcs and architect Nikolai Voits in 1939 and restored in 1993.

247 Latvian and Russian soldiers who died on the territory of Jurmala and its surroundings were buried there.