The bridge crossing the Nemunas River is named after which Lithuanian painter and writer?
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M. K. Čiurlionis Bridge M. K. Čiurlionis Bridge is a bridge in Kaunas, Lithuania. It crosses the Nemunas River to connect Freda (Aleksotas district) and Kaunas City center. The bridge is 475 meters in length and 29.4 meters in width. It carries six lanes of automobile traffic, with three lanes in each direction. The bridge, completed in 2002, is named after a prominent Lithuanian painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Polish: "Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis" ; 22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1875 – 10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1911 ) was a Lithuanian painter, composer and writer.
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Petras Dirgėla Petras Dirgėla (born February 21, 1947, Klaipeda District, Lithuania- died March 29, 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian writer, a 2003 recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize.
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Irena Trečiokaitė-Žebenkienė Irena Trečiokaitė-Žebenkienė (October 28, 1909 - January 13, 1985 Vilnius) was a Lithuanian painter.
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Moshe Maimon Moshe Maimon (also Moses Lvovich Maimon; Russian: Моисей Львович Маймон ; 1860 – 1924) was a Jewish - Russian painter who was born in the Augustów Governorate, then part of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania). He was among the first known artists within the Jewish community of Russia. He was also the grandson of author Alexander Ziskind Maimon.
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Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter (born Jerzy Szymonowicz; c. 1660 – c. 1711) was a prominent Polish painter and engraver of the Baroque, court painter of king John III Sobieski and a Polish–Lithuanian noble. He is considered one of the most accomplished painters of Classical Baroque in Poland, who joined in his works classical theory with genuine motives.
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A5 highway (Lithuania) The A5 highway is a highway in Lithuania (magistralinis kelias). It runs from Kaunas to the Poland border, toward Suwałki. The length of the road is 97.86 km . A section of the A5 highway - western bypass of Kaunas, including the Lampėdžiai Bridge across the Nemunas River, has been reconstructed to a modern dual carriageway without grade-crossings or U-turns.
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Jewish cemeteries of Kaunas The Jewish cemeteries of Kaunas are the four Jewish cemeteries of the Lithuanian Jews living in Kaunas, known to them as Kovne, Lithuania. Jewish people started settling in Kaunas in the second half of the 17th century. They were not allowed to live in the city, so most of them stayed in the Vilijampolė settlement on the opposite than Kaunas Castle right bank of the Neris River, near the its confluence with the Nemunas River. Since the second half of the 19th century, Kaunas became a major center of Jewish cultural and economic activity in Lithuania.
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Dimitrije Mitrinović Dimitrije "Mita" Mitrinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Мита Митриновић; 21 October 1887 – 28 August 1953) was a Serbian philosopher, poet, revolutionary, mystic, theoretician of modern painting, traveler and cosmopolitan.
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Teodor Narbutt Teodor Narbutt (Lithuanian: "Teodoras Narbutas" ) (8 November 1784 in the village of Szawry near Hrodna – 27 November 1864 in Vilna) was a writer of Lithuanian descent, Romantic historian and military engineer in service of Russian Empire. He is best remembered as the author of a ten-volume Polish-language history of Lithuania from the early Middle Ages to the Union of Lublin.
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Mikalojus Daukša Mikalojus Daukša (other possible spellings include "Mikalojus Daugsza", Polish: "Mikołaj Dauksza" and "Mikolay Dowksza"; after 1527 – February 16, 1613 in Medininkai) was a Lithuanian and Latin religious writer, translator and a Catholic church official. He is best known as the first among Lithuania's humanists to underline the need to codify and promote the Lithuanian language over Chancery Ruthenian and Polish, which were in use in the Grand Duchy at the time. Daukša's Lithuanian translation of Jacob Ledesma's catechism became the first book in Lithuanian to be published in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Juozas Kralikauskas Juozas Kralikauskas (October 22, 1910 – February 25, 2007 in Vilnius, Lithuania ) was a novelist and short story author.
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Peace Bridge, Wrocław Peace Bridge ( "Most Pokoju") is located in Wrocław, Poland and was built from 1954 to 1959. It spans over 124 metres and was designed by professor Jan Kmita. At first it was known as Wojewódzki Bridge, but was renamed the "Peace Bridge" in 1966. Before World War II, there was another bridge in the same place, named after the German philosopher and poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ("Lessingbrücke"). It was made of iron, built in 1875, and lasted until 1945, when it was bombarded during the Siege of Breslau.
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Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius Vincas Mickevičius (October 19, 1882 – July 17, 1954), better known by his pen name Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, was a Lithuanian writer, poet, novelist, playwright and philologist. He is also known as Vincas Krėvė, the shortened name he used in the United States.
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Jonas Burba Jonas Burba (February 1, 1907 – 1964) was an artist born in Skuodas, Lithuania. His notable works include the interwar design of the Order of Vytautas the Great and the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.
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Alfred Isidore Romer Alfred Isidore Romer, or Alfred Izydor Römer (Belarusian: Альфрэд Ізідор Ромер; 16 May 1832, Vilnius - 24 January 1897, Karalinova, Pastavy Raion) was a Baltic-German/Polish painter, sculptor, printmaker and medallist who worked in what is now Lithuania and Belarus.
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Nevėžis (river) The Nevėžis ( ) is the sixth longest river in Lithuania and one of the main tributaries of the Nemunas. Its length is 209 km , and it flows only within the geographical confines of Lithuania. It is the second longest river in Lithuania, after the Šventoji, that flows exclusively within its borders. Its source is in the Anykščiai District Municipality, and the river first flows in a northwesterly direction, but then at Panevėžys turns towards the southwest, and passing Kėdainiai, flows into the Neman just west of Kaunas near Raudondvaris.
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Alfonsas Dargis Alfonsas Dargis (1909 May 12 Reivyčiai, Mažeikiai parish – 1996 January 13 Friedrichshafen, Baden-Wurttemberg land, buried in Friedrichshafen cemetery) was a Lithuanian painter, graphic artist, set designer and poet.
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Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn ( Traditional Jewish Lithuanian pronunciation : Avrohom Dov Beyr Leybenzon ) (born in Vilnius, Russian Empire c. 1789/1794; died there November 19, 1878) was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebraist, poet, and grammarian.
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Christian Narkiewicz-Laine Christian Narkiewicz-Laine (June 3, 1952) is a Finnish / Lithuanian / American architect, architecture critic, journalist, painter, sculptor, writer, poet, human and civil rights activist and fierce advocate of for peace and social justice.
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Kazys Abromavičius Kazys Valdemaras Abromavičius (born 4 March 1928 in Kulautuva) is a Lithuanian painter.
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Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas (March 10, 1907 in Ūdrija, near Alytus – December 4, 1997 in Vilnius) was one of the most renowned 20th century Lithuanian artists. He worked as a book illustrator, graphic, painter, sculptor, stained glass artist, posters and furniture designer.