President Antanas Smetona participated in the opening of the first bridge across a lake in Lithuania.
It is famous for an incident in June 1940 when President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona had to cross the shallow river in order to reach Nazi Germany in the aftermath of the Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania.
It was established on September 6, 1917 by Antanas Smetona, and became the semi-official voice of the newly formed Lithuanian government.
It was named after the first President of Lithuania, Antanas Smetona.
In those days, many prominent Lithuanians studied in St. Petersburg, then the capital of the Russian Empire, including the future Lithuanian President Antanas Smetona and Prime Minister Augustinas Voldemaras.
For his part, Dekanozov pushed his program carefully, concentrating first of all on denouncing the Smetona regime in Lithuania, then promising to respect private property, assuring Lithuanians that agriculture would not be collectivized, and restraining any discussion of the possibility of joining the Soviet Union until mid-July.
Antanas Smetona | Antanas Žmuidzinavičius | Edmundas Antanas Rimša | Antanas Mockus | Antanas Kavaliauskas | Antanas Juška | Antanas Baranauskas |