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Eiguliai

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Country
  
Lithuania

Elder of Eiguliai
  
Ovidijus Adomaitis

Population
  
40,453 (2017)

County
  
Kaunas County

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)


Municipality
  
Kaunas city municipality

Kaunas eiguliai


Eiguliai is an eldership in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania. Eiguliai is located in Kauno apskritis. The distance from Eiguliai to Kaunas centre is approximately 6 km. The settlement was a small village until it was incorporated into Kaunas in 1959 and a residential microdistrict was built in 1979. Located on the left bank of the Neris River, Eiguliai encompass Kleboniškis and part of Kalniečiai neighbourhoods. Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital and the 7th Fort of the Kaunas Fortress are located in this eldership. The borough borders Dainava in the east, Žaliakalnis in the south, Vilijampolė and Šilainiai in the west and Domeikava with Lapės in the north. It has 40,453 inhabitants which represent 13.82 % of the population of Kauno city municipality. Eiguliai time zone is Europe/Vilnius. Eiguliai currency is Euro (EUR) and the dialing code is +370.

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Kaunas eiguliai dega masinos


Cemetery

A number of famous people were buried in the Eiguliai cemetery:

  • Jonas Bulota (1855–1942), organist, veterinarian
  • Stepas Butautas (1925–2001), sports activists
  • Klemensas Čerbulėnas (1912–1986), ethnographer and art critic, architectural historian
  • Valerija Čiurlionytė-Karužienė (1896–1991), cultural activist
  • Saulius Gricius (1963–1991), deputy of Kaunas Council, leader of the Green political movement in Lithuania
  • Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (1927–1987), doctor and writer about experiences of Lithuanian exiles near the Laptev Sea
  • Bronė Kurmytė-Monkevičienė (1913–1975), actress
  • Rapolas Okulič-Kazarinas (1856–1919), aviator, helped to organize the Lithuanian Armed Forces
  • Petras Tarasenka (1892–1962), archaeologist, colonel
  • Vytautas Rauba 1899-1920 aviator, helped to organize the Lithuanian Armed Forces First dead lithaunian pilot ever had his own medal

    • References

    Eiguliai Wikipedia
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