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Growth of Šiauliai City and the Great Constructions
Foundations of Šiauliai city formation are clearly visible in the historical sources of the 17th century. The documents of 1649 and 1650 mention Vilniaus, Rūdės, Dvaro streets, the names of which have survived to this day. It is kno... Read more
23
Jan
2018
The City in the Times of Antanas Tyzenhauzas’s Administration
Not all coercive reforms bring merely bad consequences and offer no beneficial innovations that the country was lacking until then. Also, not all tyrants can only be narcissists thirsty for power with no innovative and progressive thin... Read more
23
Jan
2018
Šiauliai Becomes the City with Full Rights
In 1791-1795, the inhabitants of Šiauliai city became important in solving the issue of the city’s self-governance. As the centre of economy and rural district, in which all major state institutions were concentrated, the city state... Read more
23
Jan
2018
Development of the City’s Industry
The economic and industrial potential of the city was promoted by emerging local enterprises. Šiauliai of the early 19th century can be called an agrarian and commercial city, where the majority of the population was engaged in agricu... Read more
29
Jan
2018
The Modernizing City
Even before the end of the 19th century, lighting of main streets and houses, financed from the city budget, was equipped. In the 20th century, lighting was equipped by private enterprises: Ch. Frenkelis’s tannery, tannery of brother... Read more
29
Jan
2018
The City’s Cultural Life – the Dawn of Awakening Consciousness
The city’s stronger economy and administrative apparatus was followed by the emergence of various organizations, movements and the like. As new educational and medical institutions were set up, the intelligentsia also grew, because m... Read more
29
Jan
2018
Šiauliai in the Soviet System
In the city’s general plan, developed in the beginning of the 7th decade of the 20th century, Šiauliai was designed as an industrial and cultural centre of Northern Lithuania. During the Soviet period, the city began to grow rapidly... Read more
01
Feb
2018
Industrial Situation in the City
In 1950, there were already 27 enterprises in Šiauliai – only by one third less than before the city’s bombarding during the Second World War. The most distinguished were representatives of leather, textile and knitwear products. ... Read more
01
Feb
2018
Cultural Life
A significant contribution to the formation of the regional cultural centre in the city was made by Šiauliai ‘Aušra’ Museum – the institution around which cultural life was revolving during the interwar period and during the wa... Read more
01
Feb
2018
Šiauliai and Sąjūdis Activities
From the very beginning, Šiauliai community with the representatives of local intellectuals took active part in the activities of the initiative group of Lithuanian reform movement Sąjūdis. After little more than a month when this g... Read more
01
Feb
2018