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Justė: Miesto Sodas always stirs a little rebel in me. This is precisely where alternative youth subcultures would gather every Friday after lessons in 2003–2004, which was where, us, “banglai” (youth subculture in Lithuania) from Šančiai wanted to be. I think that back then, we did not have any high ideals or aspirations. Neither we read […]

Alvydas: Some time ago, before the monument for Darius and Girėnas, there was a “singing fountain”. Everyone really liked it… (2014)

Sculptor Robertas Antinis sharing his memories about  people of Laisvės avenue and Kaunas (2014). Virtual route presented by R. Antinis can be found in section “Routes“.

Gintaras: Posters started to appear in Kaunas, just like in Vilnius, after the bloody events of January 13. They condemned the unjustifiable behaviour of the occupant army towards the residents of Lithuania. Since during these events I was in Vilnius, I could only capture these posters in Kaunas a week later, after I came back […]

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: I found this picture at booksellers next to Merkurijus without any inscriptions or signs… About the Parade. Throughout the Soviet Period in all the USSR, Lithuania and Kaunas included, there were “Joyful demonstrations of the working people” which were usually called parades organised twice a year (on May 1st and November 7th). Of […]

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: I am sending several photos by a famous photographer from the Soviet times, Stanislovas Lukošius which he gave me before he passed away. Photos feature explanations by Stanislovas Lukošius himself. He had a phenomenal memory and knew about the past of Kaunas in great detail. He wrote the texts himself, even though he […]

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: I cannot stop myself from sharing certain interesting pages with the memories about our old War Museum. I found this with my family in a wonderful book by Jonas Dovydaitis “Žmogaus sparnai” (1971) dedicated to the birth and development of Lithuanian aviation and to the famous aviation designer Bronius Oškinis. These are his first […]

Grafas: This photo hangs on a wall in my house. Interestingly, those who see it for the first time do not seem to understand what place and view it is. And this is the centre of Kaunas during the Soviet times, 1980. It is Janonio (Vienybės) Square and Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Art Museum and War […]