Eiguliai is an eldership in the city 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...

, Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

. The settlement was a small village until it was incorporated into Kaunas in 1959 and a residential microdistrict

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...

 was built in 1979. Located on the left bank of the Neris

Neris

Neris is a river rising in Belarus, flowing through Vilnius and becoming a tributary of the Neman River at Kaunas...

 River, Eiguliai encompass Kleboniškis and part of Kalniečiai neighbourhoods. Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital

Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital

Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital is the largest medical institution in Lithuania. The hospital was established in 1939 in Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city...

 and the 7th Fort of the Kaunas Fortress

Kaunas Fortress

Kaunas Fortress is the remains of a fortress complex in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was constructed and renovated between 1882 and 1915 to protect the Russian Empire's western borders, and was designated a "first-class" fortress in 1887...

 are located in this eldership.

Cemetery

A number of famous people were buried in the Eiguliai cemetery:

• Jonas Bulota (1855–1942), organist, veterinarian
• Stepas Butautas
  Stepas Butautas
  Stepas Butautas was a Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas....
  
   (1925–2001), sports activists
• Klemensas Čerbulėnas (1912–1986), ethnographer and art critic, architectural historian
• Valerija Čiurlionytė-Karužienė (1896–1991), cultural activist
• Saulius Gricius (1963–1991), deputy of Kaunas Council, leader of the Green political movement in Lithuania
• Dali Grinkevičiūtė (1927–1987), doctor and writer about experiences of Lithuanian exiles near the Laptev Sea
  Laptev Sea
  The Laptev Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, the Taimyr Peninsula, Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands. Its northern boundary passes from the Arctic Cape to a point with co-ordinates of 79°N and 139°E, and ends at the Anisiy...
  
  
• Bronė Kurmytė-Monkevičienė (1913–1975), actress
• Rapolas Okulič-Kazarinas (1856–1919), aviator, helped to organize the Lithuanian Armed Forces
• Petras Tarasenka (1892–1962), archaeologist, colonel
• Vytautas Rauba  1899-1920 aviator, helped to organize the Lithuanian Armed Forces First dead lithaunian pilot ever had his own medal

External links

• Website of Kaunas city