Dainava (Kaunas)
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Microdistrict
Microdistrict, or microraion , is a residential complex—a primary structural element of the residential area construction in the Soviet Union and in some post-Soviet and former Communist states...
) located in the north of center of Kaunas
Kaunas
Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation...
, the second largest city of Lithuania. It has an elderate status.
In the elderate there is an old Jewish cemetery, Lithuanian Zoo, many faculties of Kaunas University of Technology
Kaunas University of Technology
- KTU :Kaunas University of Technology is one of the largest technical universities in the Baltic States.In Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2010 KTU took the highest ratings among Lithuanian higher education institutions as having the web of best presence, visibility and accessibility...
, Friendship Park started in 1973. The neighbourhood was built in a typical soviet fashion
Microdistrict
Microdistrict, or microraion , is a residential complex—a primary structural element of the residential area construction in the Soviet Union and in some post-Soviet and former Communist states...
. It is one of the largest elderates in Kaunas with over 70,000 inhabitants as of 2006 despite its small area of only 7.28 square kilometres (2.8 sq mi).