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8 unusual facts about Kaunas


2009–10 VTB United League

The Final Four took place between January 21 and 22, 2010 in Kaunas, Lithuania at Kaunas Sports Hall, the home court of Žalgiris Kaunas.

Chaim Rabinowitz

Following the death of Rabbi Spektor in 1896, his son, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Spektor, renamed the yeshiva that his father had founded in Kovno, Knesses Beis Yitzchok and chose Rabinowitz as the first rosh yeshiva.

Felicija Bortkevičienė

She was tutored at home, then at the Marinskaja School in Kaunas and finally at Warshaw.

Kazys Ladiga

After an unsuccessful campaign in September 1920, Ladiga resigned field office and joined the General Staff in Kaunas.

Lithuanian Air Force

The Lithuanian Air Force Headquarters and the Airspace Surveillance and Control Command are located in Kaunas, while the Air Space Control Centre is stationed nearby in Karmėlava.

Oskars Perro

After that he was treated in military hospitals in Kaunas and Munchen.

Sean Greer

Greer was first called up to represent Australia in 2006 where he joined the national under-18 team to compete in the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II Group B tournament being held in Elektrėnai and Kaunas, Lithuania.

Talley's Folly

He finally admits to Sally that he was probably born in Kaunas, Lithuania.


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It started in 2005 as a free daily (on weekdays) newspaper published in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda and distributed in public buses, streets and some cafés.

1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania

The Red Army was scheduled to enter Lithuanian territory from three separate directions at 3:00 pm and had orders to take control of Vilnius, Kaunas, Raseiniai, Panevėžys, and Šiauliai.

21st Guards Motor Rifle Division

In 1969 31st Guards Motor Rifle Division was relocated from Kaunas in the Lithuanian SSR (Baltic Military District) to Belogorsk, in the Amur area of the Far East Military District.

Alexander Nedoshivin

In 1910 he learned Esperanto and was one of the founders of the Esperanto Society at Kaunas, Lithuania.

Alexander Nelson

Also, in 2005 he came second in the 100 metres World Youth Championships in Athletics in a British one, two, behind Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and third at the European Junior Athletics Championships in Kaunas Lithuania.

Algimantas Liubinskas

Famous results during his second tenure include a 1-1 draw against Germany in Nuremberg, a 1-0 victory over Scotland in Kaunas, and a 1-1 draw in Naples against Italy.

Antanas Žmuidzinavičius

Antanas Žmuidzinavičius died in 1966 and was buried in Petrašiūnai Cemetery, Kaunas.

Arlauskas

Romanas Arlauskas (born 1917, Kaunas, Lithuania), a Lithuanian-born Australian chess master

BC Neptūnas

On 1975 Klaipėda's community decided to change team from its foundations which base was people form Klaipėda and Samogitia region, which also finished studies in Vilnius and Kaunas cities.

Bellanca CH-300

A CH-300 named Lituanica (registration NR688E) gained international fame when it was used by Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas in an attempt to fly non-stop from New York City to Kaunas, Lithuania.

Chinese people in Lithuania

There is a small Chinese community living in Vilnius, as well as some small communities exists in other big cities in Lithuania, such as Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys.

Ephraim Oshry

After Kaunas was liberated in August 1944, Oshry and his wife Frieda Greenzwieg, a survivor of Auschwitz, went to Rome.

Evaldas

Evaldas Razulis (born 1986), Lithuanian footballer who plays for FBK Kaunas as a striker

Felix Zwayer

On October 15, 2013, Zwayer has refereed 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match between Lithuania and Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team in Kaunas.

Foje

In 1997 the band finally decided to disband and performed 3 huge gigs in Lithuanian cities of Klaipėda, Kaunas, and Vilnius, with an attendance of 60,000 in the final performance on 17 May in Vingis Park of Vilnius.

Ignas Jonynas

Ignas Jonynas (January 24, 1884 in Atesninkai near Simnas – July 14, 1954 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian diplomat, historian, and university professor.

Jurgis Dobkevičius

Jurgis Dobkevičius (born March 23, 1900 in Saint Petersburg, died testing his own construction airplane Dobi-III in a crash June 8, 1926 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian aviator and aircraft designer

KAG

Kauno Autobusų Gamykla, a factory in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR that produced buses from 1956 to 1979, most based on the GAZ-51 truck

Kaunas District Municipality

Kaunas District Municipality has the second largest international airport in Lithuania (Kaunas International Airport), and is well connected by major roads (A1 highway and Via Baltica), as well as railways with other cities of Lithuania.

Kaunas State Drama Theatre

The first play performed by the Kaunas Drama Theatre was Hermann Sudermann's St. John's Day, directed by Juozas Vaičkus, premiering on December 19, 1920 in the former Russian City Theatre, in what is now the Kaunas State Musical Theatre.

In 1959 the organization was merged with the Kaunas Young Viewer’s Theatre and moved to its present location at Laisvės alėja 71.

Kendrick Nunn

Nunn was selected for the USA team that competed in the 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship in Kaunas, Lithuania from June 29 – July 8, 2012 along with Simeon teammate Parker and Whitney Young rival Jahlil Okafor.

Klooga concentration camp

Jews constituted a vast majority after large numbers of them forcibly relocated in August and September 1943 from the ghettos of Kovno and Vilna in Lithuania and Salaspils in Latvia; smaller numbers were from Estonia, Russia and Romania.

Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac

In 2003 they were properly reburied in a ceremony led by Kaunas archbishop Sigitas Tamkevičius.

Laisvės alėja

It stretches between the St. Michael the Archangel's Byzantine-style church to the Central Post Office and Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum, around the Kaunas Old Town, the oldest section of Kaunas.

Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

In 2013, Secondary school of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences was established in Vilijampolė district of Kaunas.

Mantas Kalnietis

Kalnietis made his pro debut in February 2006 with the Žalgiris of Kaunas.

Marius Grigonis

Marius Grigonis (born 26 April 1994 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player, currently playing for CB Peñas Huesca of the LEB on loan from BC Žalgiris.

National Student Academy

The most diligent students are invited to participate in the residential sessions, of which there are three per year: in spring (in Vilnius or Kaunas), summer (in Nida) and winter (in Palanga).

On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics

Leonidas Donskis, Member of the European Parliament, and previously Professor and Dean of Vytautas Magnus University School of Political Science and Diplomacy, Kaunas, Lithuania

Pascal Mendy

Lithuanian-Russian businessman Vladimir Romanov finances both clubs and a number of Kaunas players have already moved to Hearts in this manner.

Pietro Perti

Perti has also participated in the decoration of the Pažaislis monastery ensemble in Kaunas, together with Joan Merli and Michelangelo Palloni whose daughter Maria Magdalena he was married to.

Tatyana Shemyakina

She won the silver medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka and bronze medal at the 2009 European U23 Championships in Kaunas.

Vytautas Kavolis

During this time he also served as a visiting professor at the The New School in New York City and at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas.

Vytautas the Great War Museum

The first carillonists of the Kaunas carillon were Lithuanian composers Viktoras Kuprevičius and his son Giedrius Kuprevičius.

Žalgiris Kaunas

FBK Kaunas, Lithuanian football club from Kaunas, formerly known as Žalgiris Kaunas


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