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Museum of War

Museum of War

1921 / 1936

Museum of War

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 […]

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Looking down from the Resurrection Church

Looking down from the Resurrection Church

1970 / 1990

Looking down from the Resurrection Church

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 […]

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Sculptures in Ąžuolynas (The Oakwood Park)

Sculptures in Ąžuolynas (The Oakwood Park)

1986 / 1987

Sculptures in Ąžuolynas (The Oakwood Park)

Alvydas (50): When my then-future wife was studying in Kaunas Polytechnic Institute, we would often walk around the Oakwood Park… We made several photos there…:) (2014)  

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Family in front of War Museum

Family in front of War Museum

Family in front of War Museum

1 photographPovilas and Vanda Tarnauskai, shareholders of the restaurant Versalis, with their daughter at the War Museum . 4th decade. From the family archive of Ludza Riaukienė.

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Bridge for Vytautas Magnus

Bridge for Vytautas Magnus

Bridge for Vytautas Magnus

1 photograph Povilas (first to the right) and Vandas (second to the left), Tarnauskas, restaurant “Versalis” shareholders, festive visit to Nemunas. 4th decade. From the family archive of Ludza Riaukienė. Robert Kanys: In this photo, with Povilas and Vanda Tarnauskas and my grandfather, Česlovas Kanys, who was friends with Povilas Tarnauskas and also worked as […]

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Juozas Naujalis Music Gymnasium

Juozas Naujalis Music Gymnasium

Juozas Naujalis Music Gymnasium

Raimonda Pauzienė (51): [In Juozas Naujalis Music School] everyone was trained to be a musician. Only several people would not later apply for studies in the conservatory. There was this one girl in my class who strained her arm and went to a different school. Students from other schools used to say that they do […]

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Baptist Church

Baptist Church

1991

Baptist Church

Pastor Vladimiras Sereda: “/…/ In 1980, I came to Lithuania with my wife after our wedding. As people of faith, we were looking for some community. At first, we used to go to Vilnius, because there was a community of the Seventh Day Baptist Church. Later someone told us that there were several sisters in Kaunas, who […]

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Darius and Girėnas Monument

Darius and Girėnas Monument

1993

Darius and Girėnas Monument

The funniest part was to spin circles around the monument with my Nikon, which was used but still great. I brought it back from a trip. Before leaving, I used half a film taking photos with my Zenit camera, capturing the monument which had not been fully built yet, and in June, I used the […]

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World Lithuanian Games

World Lithuanian Games

1991

World Lithuanian Games

When I was sixteen, it was the first time, when I brought my photo camera to the Oakwoord Park, Darius and Girėnas Sports Centre, the Hall and the Stadium. It was during the World Lithuanian Games in the summer of 1991. I followed the participants marching from the Old Town. There were crowds of people, […]

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