Period

Elena: “While drinking my morning tea, I read an article about the old Kaunas movie…

Svetlana: “I was living in Siberia and came to Lithuania from Irkutsk when I was…

Konstantinas: “My childhood passed here, about 80 years ago. I was the youngest of three…

Irina: “My dad is Russian. He came from Ivanov to serve in Šančiai, where he…

Elvyra: “When me and my husband arrived at Linksmakalnis, the soldiers were still there. After…

Eugenija: “I remember, when they destroyed Stalin’s monument. The windows of our apartment were facing…

Eugenija: “I saw the graves of Darius and Girėnas in the institute.I was admitted to…

Eugenija: “I lived nearby. I crossed the street, where there currently stands a Russian school.That’s…

Stasys: “Since I lived up the hill in the city, in Vaižgantas street, I used…

Liucija and Daiva: “Sonata” was an integral part of our youthful life, just like lessons,…

Rūta: “In the spring, 1958 we said our goodbyes to Kaunas VI Secondary School. I…

Siegfried: “Just at the outskirts of Kaunas, I was dug up by locomotive firemen and picked…

Gercas: “Basically, all amateur activities had to go through a selection process. There had to…

Jonas: “The mosque that previously belonged to National M. K. Čiurlionis Museum was returned to…

In December, 2018 The lions that are protecting the entrance to Vytautas Magnus War Museum…

Birutė: “It was a long time ago…When in 1955 I‘ve settled down in Kaunas together…

Jonas: “At the beginning of July 1962 and after graduating the 1st High School of…

Rimantas: “This photo of my daughter Edita is taken in 1963, when she was 3.5-years-old.…

Žilvinas: “My brother and I, we are twins. We used to be very naughty children…

Arūnas: “I spent my childhood and youth in Kaunas. I managed to find a few…

„Namas stovėjo Laisvės alėjos pradžioje, prie Vytauto parko, šalia apsodintos liepomis ir alyvomis kalno papėdės.…

Aleksandra: “I lived just next to Laisvės Alėja. I remember myself, an 11-year-old, wandering somewhere…

Judita: “When I was young I used to live with my custodian in M. Valančiaus Street.…

Judita: ”I had many photos in the ghetto house. They became toys when my parents would…

Asija: “In the evenings, Laisvės Avenue was full of people. Families would go for a walk.…

Asija: “The most important place for me was the Sobor. Pretty much all of the most…

Asija: ”A protest happened in Ramybės (Serenity) Park, after which it was decided to remove…

Asija: “When the family got too big, we received a room in Laisvės Ave. 1A (currently…

Dobrė: “The action was held in November 1941: at 6 pm we were lined up. Our…

Fruma: “We were hiding in Petrašiūnai, a place that was not considered to be part of…

Memories of (the mother of) Laima Jarašūnienė about Kaunas: The brightest memory about Kaunas from the…

Marius: During the Interwar period, my great-grandparents and grandparents were living in Šančiai, an industrial district…

Kęstutis: “We were living at Gričiupio Street, where the current KTU student campus is located. Previously,…

Galina: “Formerly, the Christmas tree was decorated at Vienybės (Unity) Square. There was a feast and…

Fruma: “My first childhood memories connected to Kaunas are very warm. My grandparents lived in the…

Jolita: My grandparents lived “on the hill”, in Vilijampolė. I used to visit them with…

Lomo Nose: Portraits of friends captured in the yards of Dainava microdistrict in 1985. On…

Gabrielė: Holding firmly my mother’s hand, I walk in somewhat weak step towards a large…

Gabrielė: Early morning. Two-storey building. Unlocked door. So many lights. Corridors decorated with unclear pictures…

Gabrielė: Street, yard, house. I still remember where a turn should be taken in order…

Rimvydas: Youth! The ice rink in front of the State Institute of Physical Education was a…

Rimvydas: Youth! Petras Vileišis Square (or Smėlynė, as it was called by the residents of…

Eglė: Hens running across the yard, pigs being farmed behind the house and the old…

Writer Markas Zingeris: for me as a child, Laisvės Avenue (Lithuanian: Laisvės alėja) was both…

Video by students of Vytautas Magnus University: Justė Balytaitė, Monika Žekaitė, Agnė Muškietaitė, Kristina Jazdauskaitė,…

Memories about Oakwood Park by people of Kaunas. Video by students of Vytautas Magnus University: Justė…

Video by students of Vytautas Magnus University: Justė Balytaitė, Monika Žekaitė, Agnė Muškietaitė, Kristina Jazdauskaitė.

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas: It was a rally to support the Act of March 11 and show…

Saulė: After high school, I got into Kaunas Stepas Žukas Technical School of Applied Arts.…

Liucija: I arrived from the sea coast to study in Vilnius. During the last year,…

Liucija: I remember, when my friend and I, we would go to the Picture Gallery…

D.B.: Even though that for most residents of Kaunas, Picture Gallery seems as located in…

Greta: If someone asked which place of student life is the dearest to me, I…

A.K.: Russian Aesthetic Education Centre later received the name of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. It is still…

Greta: It is weird, but Kaunas Castle Bus Stop occupied a big and probably important…

Gintaras Vitulskis: After the war, when the wooden cinema Lyra (Lyre) burned to the ground,…

Gintaras Vitulskis: These pictures are from the 1930s: in one of them, there is a…

Solveiga Lukminaitė: My brightest memories are related to my favourite places in Kaunas, especially Kaunas…

Solveiga Lukminaitė: My memories related to Laisvės alėja (Avenue) are only positive ones. It is…

Alma: Some time ago, this university was called Kaunas Polytechnic Institute and the campus was…

K. Laurinaitytė: I remember Dainų Slėnis since I was six, because this was when I…

Alma: It is very nice to remember how people would gather in the Oakwood Park.…

K. Laurinaitytė: I had been visiting Merkurijus since very young days. It was like one…

Gintaras Vitulskis: The first victory. At the end of the 20th century, St. Gertrude’s Gothic…

Gintaras: Žalgiris Stadium was not only a place of sports events; people were also interested in…

Neringa: In childhood, our parents would bring us to Vytauto Park. Back then, the roofs…

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): We would often play in Miesto Sodas. There used to be…

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): Everyone on the same lion !

1 photograph Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): Me and my mother in the Oakwood Park in1947.…

Gintaras: In Vilniaus Street, next to the underground passage, there is a building with niches,…

Arkadijus Vinokuras (member of the “Company”): We were proud of Kaunas, and the situation of…

Sculptor Robertas Antinis: There was Orbita – a superb club. In that common context, it…

Indrė Žakevičienė: The most memorable event for me was the commemoration of February 16 in…

Vitalijus: I remember Romuva from my childhood. A very long time ago, when my brother…

Roberto: When ice hockey was the most popular winter sport in Kaunas, the teams of…

Justė: Miesto Sodas always stirs a little rebel in me. This is precisely where alternative…

Alvydas: Some time ago, before the monument for Darius and Girėnas, there was a “singing…

Sculptor Robertas Antinis sharing his memories about  people of Laisvės avenue and Kaunas (2014). Virtual…

Gintaras: Posters started to appear in Kaunas, just like in Vilnius, after the bloody events…

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: I found this picture at booksellers next to Merkurijus without any inscriptions or…

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: I am sending several photos by a famous photographer from the Soviet times,…

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: I cannot stop myself from sharing certain interesting pages with the memories about…

Grafas: This photo hangs on a wall in my house. Interestingly, those who see it…

Alvydas (50): When my then-future wife was studying in Kaunas Polytechnic Institute, we would often…

1 photographPovilas and Vanda Tarnauskai, shareholders of the restaurant Versalis, with their daughter at the…

1 photograph Povilas (first to the right) and Vandas (second to the left), Tarnauskas, restaurant…

Raimonda Pauzienė (51): [In Juozas Naujalis Music School] everyone was trained to be a musician.…

Pastor Vladimiras Sereda: “/…/ In 1980, I came to Lithuania with my wife after our wedding. As…

The funniest part was to spin circles around the monument with my Nikon, which was…

When I was sixteen, it was the first time, when I brought my photo camera…

Rimantas Viedrynaitis: “I was born in Kaunas, the Jewish Hospital. It is sad that it does…

Gintaras: “One detail stuck to my mind from the dismantling of Leninas monument: next to Donelaičio…

Alvydas Vaitkevičius: A note on the monument of Salomėja Nėris: I remember it standing there.…

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: If someone is collecting historical material, there is an interesting episode. Photo…

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: The flood of 1946 in Kaunas was a very strong one. The…

Neringa: Yesterday, while driving from Vilnius to Kaunas, I saw the “new” sign of the…

(Operating from 2011 to 2013). Sculptor Robertas Antinis: In a big city, cafés can be…

Liuda Riaukienė: “My grandparents Povilas and Vanda Tarnauskai were shareholders of Versalis company. They founded…

Laumė café that was working during the Soviet times was famous for its good coffee…

Music club Senas Stalčius (Laisvės ave. 46a) was open for several years since 1995. The club…

The first building of Garrison Officers’ club during the Interwar period was in a two-storey…

Greta: To me, VMU equals study years. When I was still at school, I dreamed…

(Saulius Eduardas Pauliukonis, actor of Šiauliai Drama Theatre, former actor of Kaunas Pantomime troupe, who…

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