The Rada ( Council ) of the Belarus National Republic went into exile, first to Kaunas, then to Berlin and finally to Prague.

He became a private teacher in Kowno ( Kaunas ) and then a rector in the Protestant school in Wilno ( Vilnius ).

Kaunas then began to gain prominence, since it was at an intersection of trade routes and a river port.

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

The boy was raised by his grandmother in Kaunas, then a capital of Kovno Governorate.

Shahn was born in Kovno ( Kaunas ), Lithuania, then occupied by the Russian Empire, to Jewish parents Joshua Hessel and Gittel ( Lieberman ) Shahn.

On 22 June 1941 the Lithuanians overthrew Soviet rule two days before the Wehrmacht arrived in Kaunas, where the Germans then allowed a Provisional Government to function for over a month.

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.

In 1993 Banga Kaunas was renamed Žalgiris Kaunas and then FBK Kaunas.

From then until the present day, the wreckage of Lituanica has been on display in the Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas.

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

His men then unsuccessfully attacked Kaunas Castle in an attempt to liberate imprisoned Ahmad, Khan of the Great Horde.

He was then appointed the head coach of FBK Kaunas, the Lithuanian A Lyga club controlled by Vladimir Romanov, in July 2008.

Revel was born in Pren, a neighboring town of Kovno ( today: Kaunas ) Lithuania, then part of Russia, a son of the community's Rabbi Nachum Shraga Revel.

Stanisław Narutowicz ( ) ( September 2, 1862, in Brėvikiai, near Telšiai, then in the Russian Empire ( now in Lithuania ) – December 31, 1932, in Kaunas, Lithuania ) was a lawyer and politician, one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania and brother to the first president of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz.

When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, 20, 000 Russians became prisoners.

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.

In 1408 the town was granted Magdeburg Rights by Vytautas the Great and became a centre of Kaunas Powiat in Trakai Voivodeship in 1413.

Later, when the capital Vilnius was forcibly annexed by Poland, Kaunas became the temporary capital of Lithuania, a position it held until 28 October 1939, when the Red Army handed Vilnius back to Lithuania.

Kaunas again became the major centre of resistance against the Soviet regime.

Kaunas, along with Vilnius, became the scene of nearly constant demonstrations as the Lithuanians, embarked on a process of self-discovery.

After World War II Kaunas became the main industrial city of Lithuania – it produced about a quarter of Lithuania's industrial output.

Kaunas natives Vytautas Landsbergis and Valdas Adamkus became the Head of state in 1990, and, respectively, in 1998 and 2004.

* 1948 Šiauliai Teachers Institute was founded, in 1954 it became Pedagogical Institute, and since 1996, when the Šiauliai faculty of Kaunas Polytechnic Institute was connected, it is Šiauliai University.

He became Mayor of Kaunas in 1933 and served in this position until 1939.

The baseball section added ( which later separated and became BK Lituanica Kaunas ), hence the original name in Lithuanian is Kauno futbolo beisbolo klubas.

Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, Arens immigrated to the United States with his family in 1939 and became an American citizen.

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.

He became an airframe engineer and was able to start flying aerobatics at the Kaunas Flying Club in Lithuania.

Since the city was controlled by Poland, all Lithuanian authorities were transferred to the city of Kaunas, which became the seat of the government.

The Lithuanian Freedom Union gained a majority in Kaunas city municipality council, and Šustauskas became mayor of Kaunas.

Gimbutas settled in the temporary capital of Lithuania of Kaunas with her parents in 1931, where she continued her studies.

A notable historical example of conscientious noncompliance in a different professional context was the manipulation of the visa process in 1939 by Japanese Consul-General Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas ( the temporary capital of Lithuania between Germany and the Soviet Union ) to allow Jews to escape almost certain death.

Instead, it continued to treat the so-called Vilnius Region as part of its own territory and the city itself as its constitutional capital, with Kaunas being only a temporary seat of government.

Soviet troops withdrew from the Lithuanian temporary capital Kaunas ( Kovno ) the day before, and the city was taken over by Lithuanians during the anti-Soviet uprising.

The Lithuanian government in Kaunas, designated as the temporary capital, saw the Polish presence in Vilnius as occupation.

The temporary capital of Lithuania () was the official designation of the city of Kaunas in Lithuania during the interwar period.

Currently, the term temporary capital, despite having lost its meaning, is still frequently used as a nickname for Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania.

To reconcile reality with constitutional claims, Kaunas was designated as a temporary or provisional capital until Vilnius would be " liberated from Polish occupation ".

Despite normalized relations, the new Lithuanian Constitution of May 1938 still claimed Vilnius as the de jure capital of Lithuania and Kaunas remained as the temporary capital.

Since the Vilnius region was controlled by Poland, the Lithuanian government declared Kaunas the temporary capital of Lithuania.

He returned to Lithuania in 1912 and worked on city sanitation and water supply systems in Vilnius, and following the Polish occupation of the city left to the temporary capital of Lithuania, Kaunas.