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31 unusual facts about Vilnius


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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.

Aleksandr Kamensky

From 1949 to 1962, he chaired the department of Art History at the Art institute in Vilnius.

Andrea Fortunato

Everything seemed to be going well, but Fortunato caught pneumonia and was never able to recover – he died on 25 April 1995 on the eve of Italy’s game with Lithuania in Vilnius.

Avot of Rabbi Natan

Commentaries have been written by Eliezer Lipman of Zamość, Zolkiev, 1723; by Elijah ben Abraham with notes by The Vilna Gaon, Wilna, 1833; by Abraham Witmand, Ahabat Ḥesed, Amsterdam, 1777; and by Joshua Falk, Binyan Yehoshu'a, Dyhernfurth, 1788.

Battle of Orsha

To commemorate the victory, two Orthodox churches were erected: the Church of the Holy Trinity and the Church of Saint Nicholas, which remain among the most impressive examples of Orthodox Church architecture in Lithuania.

Bernardinai.lt

It was launched on February 21, 2004 and is run by Vilnius Franciscan community.

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.

European Humanities University

Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2012, EHU has been headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania since authorities expelled it from Belarus in 2004.

Felicija Bortkevičienė

She married engineer John Bortkevičiaus (1871 -1909) in 1901 and lived at Vilnius, were she became involved in social work and participated in the revival of the Lithuanian language and culture.

Gate of Dawn

It has also been known as the Medininkai Gate, as it led to the village Medininkai south of Vilnius as well as Aštra broma, which derivative for the Lithuanian language word aštra meaning sharp.

Church festival of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of Mercy—celebrated in the third week of November—is of great importance in the Vilnius Archdiocese.

Howard Klug

Mr. Klug's recent concerto performances have included appearances with the Belgian Radio Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and a tour of Belgium with the Kamerorkest of the Staatsacademie of Vilnius.

Ignaty Krachkovsky

Ignaty Yulianovich Krachkovsky (Russian: Игна́тий Юлиа́нович Крачко́вский (4 (16) March 1883, Vilnius — 24 January 1951, Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet Arabist, academician of the Russian Academy of Science (since 1921; since 1925 Academy of Science of the USSR).

Jean-Baptiste Bernard Viénot de Vaublanc

Nevertheless, Jean-Baptiste makes it to Gambinen in Prussia, near Vilnius, Lithuania, before finally succumbing to the ravages of war.

John Herbinius

He was engaged as a Chaplain at Stockholm by Swedish ambassador to Poland, and later been appointed as a minister of the Lutheran Church at Wilna and Graudentz.

Judah Leib Cahan

Judah Leib Cahan (1881, Vilna, Lithuania – 1937, New York City) was a Yiddish folklorist.

Lietuvos skautų sąjunga

After Russia occupied Lithuania, Lithuania Scout Association was suspended, but rehabilitated in 1988 in Vilnius.

Lithuanian Space Association

Lithuanian Space Association is space organization based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lukiškės Prison

One of the most distinctive buildings in the complex was the Orthodox St. Nicholas Church, one of the finest Orthodox churches in Vilna.

Nadia Reisenberg

Born in Vilnius, Reisenberg studied under Leonid Nikolayev at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

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).

Norsk Data

Later that year, the network connection lines, directly connecting Vilnius to Moscow, were shut down.

Pastavy

Pastavy has a station on the railway line between Viciebsk and Vilnius, Lithuania.

Polish State Railways

On international routes such as, for example, the Berlin-Warszawa Express and the IC-Nightbus WarsawVilnius, a global pricing system is in use which requires one to buy two separate tickets (one in each direction) in place of a single consolidated return ticket.

Red Terror on the Amber Coast

During a year teaching at Vilnius University, O'Rourke was inspired by an accidental visit to the former KGB headquarters in Vilnius, calling it "one of the most chilling experiences of my life."

Sergei Konstantinovich Gershelman

He continued as Moscow's Acting Governor General until April 15, and then moved to Vilna.

The Last Girl

It tells the story of an elderly poet living in Vilnius in the 1990s, who is troubled by a guilty secret from his youth.

Steponas Daumantas, an elderly poet, walks the streets of Vilnius photographing young women with their babies.

UAB Lelija

Main enterprise is located in Paneriai (Vilnius), the capital of Lithuania, where are samples making, CAD (designing), CAM (cutting) departments and nine specialized sewing workshops.

Wilna, New York

The origin of the name of the town is obscure, although it is alleged to be named after the German spelling of Vilnius, in commemoration of the French occupation of Vilnius, Lithuania in 1812.

Zdeněk Fibich

At the age of 23, he married Růžena Hanušová and took up residence in the Lithuanian city of Vilnius where he had obtained a position of choirmaster.


Alena Filipava

She won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Wrestling Championships in Herning, Denmark, against Tatiana Padilla of the United States, in addition to her silver at the European Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Augustyn Wróblewski

Augustyn Wroblewski, of Ślepowron coat of arms (born 20 July 1866 in Vilnius, died after 1913) - Polish chemist and biochemist, author of the groundbreaking work in the field of yeast fermentation, theorist and proponent of anarchism, an activist in socialist organizations, journalist, lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

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.

Carl Faia

He has collaborated with artists to present new works with computer electronics in various festivals throughout Europe including Ars Musica (Brussels), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Musica (Strasbourg), Agora (Paris), Gaida (Vilnius), MaerzMusik (Berlin), Lille 2004 as well as the Casa da Musica (Porto) et Lille 2004 and Queen Elizabeth Hall (London).

Constitutional Court of Lithuania

Since its inception, the Court has been located in the city of Vilnius, Gediminas Avenue.

Eugene Rozhitsky

On February 21, 1927 Rozhistsky was appointed rector of the Uniate parish in Kostomlotah, but soon returned to the Orthodox Church and as Orthodox priest ministered in Vilnius in the Izha village (now Vileyka Raion, in the Minsk Region).

European Congress of Ethnic Religions

# Vilnius, Lithuania (2001), with delegates from the Vishva Hindu Parishad

Foje

It was formed in the present-day Antakalnis Secondary School in Vilnius by Andrius Mamontovas, Arnoldas Lukošius and Darius Tarasevičius in 1983 under the name of Sunki Muzika (with a literal meaning of "heavy music"), few months later Algis Kriščiūnas joined the band.

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.

Hirsch Schwartzberg

But Vilnius/Vilna - before the German invasion - was a predominately Jewish and Polish city - after the genocide in Lithuania, the Jewish society and community to which Schwartzberg previously belonged did not exist anymore.

House of Tyszkiewicz

Places named Tyszkiewicz Palace, "former Tyszkiewicz Palace", Tiškevičiai Palace, and other historical properties of the family are located in Warsaw, Kraków and Vilnius, as well as in numerous towns of modern Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine (in Palanga, Kretinga, Lahojsk, Raudondvaris, Berdychiv, Biržai, Kavarskas, Deltuva, Trakai, Lentvaris, Seredžius, etc.)

Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob

He died soon after the appearance of the first volume of Azariah dei Rossi's Meor 'Enayim, with which he started the series (Vilnius, 1863).

Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė

Born in Vilnius, she studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University.

Leonardus Syttin

Leonardus "Leonid" Syttin (born 3 December 1892 in Vilnius, date of death unknown) was a Lithuanian sport shooter who competed for the Russian Empire in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Lilienthal Gliding Medal

The first winner of the Lilienthal Gliding Medal in the world was Tadeusz Góra for his record-breaking 577.8-kilometer flight on May 18, 1938, glider PWS-101 from Bezmiechowa to Soleczniki (near Vilnius).

Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt

Poczobutt observed solar and lunar eclipses, comets and asteroids (including Ceres, Pallas, Juno), and calculated geographic coordinates of settlements in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (including Vilnius and Hrodna).

Marijonas Mikutavičius

Born in Lazdijai, at the age of nine Mikutavičius moved with the family to Vilnius where he later entered, and in 1994 graduated the Faculty of Communication of the Vilnius University as a master in journalism.

Military Ordinariate of Lithuania

Gintaras Grusas (appointed 19 June 2010 - named Archbishop of Vilnius 5 April 2013) Bishop Grusas, 51 (born 1961), was originally a technological consultant for marketing at IBM and was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Los Angeles.

National Center for Jewish Film

The Center's other archival and preservations projects include features and documentaries from around the globe; early American silent film comedies and features; rare early Russian films; pre–World War II home movies of Yurburg, Horodok, Novogrudok, and Berlin; travelogues of Białystok, Krakow, Warsaw, Vilnius, and Lviv; industrial and fundraising films produced by Jewish agencies; early documentary footage of Palestine/Israel.

NB8

The Nordic Council of Ministers offices opened in the three Baltic capitals (Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius) in 1991 play a key role in the dynamic Nordic–Baltic co-operation.

Robertas Javtokas

On May 1, 2002, while driving his Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle at a speed of around 140 kilometers per hour (87 miles per hour) towards Vilnius, he had a serious accident.

Schoschana Rabinovici

Two days after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Suzanne was eight years old, Germans occupied Vilnius and Suzanne’s father, Isak Weksler was arrested as a Jew and was eventually sent to his death at PaneriaiPonary.

Solomon Globus

He took 6th at Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) 1909 (the 6th All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Akiba Rubinstein won), and took 13th at Vilna 1912 (the 7th RUS-ch, B-tournament, Karel Hromádka won).

Stanisław Jaśkiewicz

He graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1929, making his theatrical debut at 21 November that year as Francis Flute in the Vilnius Municipal Theater production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Thanks to My Mother

Two days after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Suzanne was eight years old, Germans occupied Vilnius and Suzanne’s father, Isak Weksler was arrested as a Jew and was eventually sent to his death at Paneriai - Ponary.

Užupis

Artūras Zuokas, mayor of Vilnius, lives in Užupis and frequently takes part in the Republic's events.

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.

Vileišis

Vileišis Palace, Neo-baroque style architectural ensemble in Vilnius, Lithuania

Vilnius letter

Such criticism may hint at the Vilnius letter as a tool for U.S. policies to divide and rule, citing essays from the think tank PNAC.

Vilnius University Faculty of Communication

On 18 of June, 1991 following the assessment of rapid development of information services and access to information, and the need for cohesive communication research in Lithuania, the Vilnius University Council passed a decision to establish the Faculty of Communication on the basis of the former Departments of Library science, Information Systems, Book Science and Bibliography, Radio and Television Journalism, and Press Journalism.

Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science

The Institute of International Relations and Political Science (IIRPS) of Vilnius University was established on 7 February 1992 by the agreement between Vilnius University and the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania.