Jonas Staugaitis (; May 20, 1868 in Omentiškiai, Vilkaviškis district municipality – January 18, 1952 in Kaunas ) was the acting President of Lithuania during the December 1926 coup d ' état.

He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kaunas, Lithuania ; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City.

* link = European route E67 –: Helsinki … Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warsaw – Piotrków Trybunalski – Wrocław – Kłodzko – Kudowa-Zdrój – Náchod – Hradec Králové – Prague ; also known as the Via Baltica

Between the World Wars industry prospered in Kaunas ; it was then the largest city in Lithuania.

Particularly active in the Kaunas pogrom was the so-called " Death Dealer of Kaunas ", a young man who murdered Jews with a crow bar at the Lietukis Garage before a large crowd that cheered each killing with much applause ; he occasionally stopped to play the Lithuanian national anthem " Tautiška giesmė " with his accordion before resuming the killings One German soldier described the scene:

Others similarly dishonored include Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania ; Carl Lutz, the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary ; and Paul Grüninger, chief of police in the Swiss canton of Sankt-Gallen ( Saint-Gall ).

Aleksandras Stulginskis ( born ( February 26, 1885 in Kutaliai, in Šilalė district municipality near Tauragė, Lithuania, Russian Empire ; died September 22, 1969 in Kaunas ) was the second President of Lithuania ( 1920 – 1926 ).

Valdas Adamkus ( pronounced ; born in Kaunas, Lithuania ; November 3, 1926 ) was President of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.

Sabonis retained a 21. 5 % stake in the club ; 3 % is owned by a minority group, and the remaining 0. 5 % is owned by the Kaunas City municipality.

Image: MaironioMuziejus. jpg | Maironis ' house ; now Lithuanian literature Museum in Kaunas

George Maciunas (, pronounced ma-chew-nas ; born 8 November 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania ; died 9 May 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States ) was a Lithuanian-born American artist.

In 1885, he entered Kaunas gymnasium, and graduated in 1893 ; he then entered the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Moscow University.

He initiated building of first stadium in Kaunas ; it was later was named after him-the S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium.

Jolanta Dičkutė ( born December 8, 1970 in Kaunas ) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party ; part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

According to The Bank of Lithuania official website, it is managed by Supervision Service ; ten departments: Economics, Statistics, Market Operations, International Relations, Payment Systems, Cash, Accounting, Information Technology, General Services and Security ; six autonomous divisions ( Internal Audit, Legal, Organisation and Personnel, General and Public Relations, Risk Management ), and Bank of Lithuania Branches in Kaunas and Klaipėda.

Martynas Andriuškevičius ( pronounced ; born March 12, 1986, in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union ) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player.

The city and its elderates also have names in other languages ( see Names of Kaunas in other languages and names of Kaunas elderates in other languages ).

* Lithuania in Kaunas rather than Vilnius during the interwar period when Poland controlled the latter city ( see Temporary capital of Lithuania ).

BI has roughly 1500 students in China through its close relationship with Fudan University in Shanghai, and is also the majority shareholder of the ISM University of Management and Economics ( previously known as International School of Management ) with around 2000 students located in Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania.

Politics in Lithuania was also very heated, as President Voldemaras was unpopular in some quarters, and survived an assassination attempt in Kaunas.

It is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaunas.

By the 16th century, Kaunas also had a public school and a hospital and was one of the best-formed towns in the whole country.

In recent years the fair has also been held in Kaunas on the Laisvės alėja and Town Hall Square.

Historical German and Germanic-sounding placenames were also retained ( or introduced ) for many Baltic cities, such as Reval ( Tallinn ), Kauen ( Kaunas ), and Dünaburg ( Daugavpils ), among many others.

Panevėžys County borders with Latvia, and also with Lithuanian counties of Utena, Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai.

It has also sold trolleybuses to cities in Bulgaria ( Sofia ), Estonia ( Tallinn ), Hungary ( Budapest and Debrecen ), Czech Republic ( Opava and Ostrava ), Slovakia ( Bratislava and Košice ), Italy ( Rome, Naples, Sanremo, Bologna and Cagliari ), Latvia ( Riga ), Lithuania ( Kaunas and Vilnius ), Sweden ( Landskrona ), and Switzerland ( Winterthur and La Chaux-de-Fonds ).

Despite relegation FBK Kaunas also participated in the new UEFA Europe League as a vice-champ of Lithuania.

It is also served by Kaunas International Airport, the second largest airport in Lithuania, located in Karmėlava site.

Ayuso has also played internationally with Montegranaro in Italy, Ionikos Neas Filadelfeias BC in Greece, Beşiktaş in Turkey, Spartak St. Petersburg in Russia, the Žalgiris Kaunas in Lithuania, and the KK Split and KK Cibona Zagreb in Croatia.

The Kovno Kollel also known as Kollel Perushim of Kovno or Kollel Knesses Beis Yitzchok, was a kollel located in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Jewish survivors and authors accuse members of the LAF, especially in Kaunas but also in other towns, of indiscriminate and gruesome excesses against Jewish residents, often before the Nazis arrived to take control, most notably characterized by the Kaunas pogrom.

The club was formerly a part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov's soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga side FBK Kaunas, before he withdrew his financial support in 2012.

In Lithuania, marshrutkas have been in service in a variety of cities since the end of the 1980s – mostly in Vilnius and Kaunas, but also used in Klaipėda, Šiauliai and elsewhere.

Vilnius is connected by highways to other major Lithuanian cities, such as Kaunas ( 102 km / 63 mi away ), Šiauliai ( 214 km / 133 mi away ) and Panevėžys ( 135 km / 84 mi away ).

These Tatars first settled in Lithuania proper around Vilnius, Trakai, Hrodna and Kaunas and later spread to other parts of the Grand Duchy that later became part of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Prior to the Second World War, Kaunas, like many other cities in eastern Europe, had a significant Jewish population.

J. Vileišis maintained many contacts in other European cities, and as a result Kaunas was an active participant in European urban life.

He and all other envoys were arrested by German soldiers in Kaunas, and sent to Minsk, then to Homyel, before making their way to Moscow.

These Tatars first settled in Lithuania proper around Vilnius, Trakai, Hrodna and Kaunas and later spread to other parts of the Grand Duchy that later became part of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Of those that did, some remained in Vilnius or Kaunas after the War, while most emigrated to Palestine, the US, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Germany, or other nations – in some cases joining family and friends who had left Lithuania before the War.

Lithuania recorded 13 other suicides by fire in 1972, including 24-year-old V. Stonys in Varėna on May 29, 60-year-old A. Andriuškevičius in Kaunas on June 3, 62-year-old Zališauskas on June 10, 40-year-old Juozapas Baracevičius in Šiauliai on June 22.

The newspaper's investment helped establish the club as one of two best in Lithuania, the other being BC Žalgiris from the country's second-largest city Kaunas.

In most areas the rebels followed the pattern set in Kaunas and Vilnius: take control of local institutions ( most importantly, the police ) and secure other strategic objects.

After falling under Nazi occupation, Lithuania appealed to the Vatican to reintegrate its dioceses into the country and replace its bishops, to which Maglione responded, " The government of Kaunas should appreciate, that the Holy See cannot run behind armies and change bishops as combatant troops occupy new territories belonging to countries other than their own.

A total of 67 personnel, among them nine pilots, were part of the detachment: 63 served at Šiauliai, while other four served at the air traffic control centre in Kaunas, to ensure smooth cooperation with local authorities.

Goldberg was the son of Lithuanian Jewish refugee of the village of Akmian ( Yiddish )/ Akmene ( Lithuanian ), Kovno ( Kaunas ) who was put ashore in Cork with other Jews and told that " Cork was the gateway to America.