Alytus
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State : | Lithuania | ||
District : | Alytus | ||
Municipality : | Alytus | ||
Coordinates : | 54 ° 24 ' N , 24 ° 2' E | ||
Height : | 200 m | ||
Area (place) : | 40 km² | ||
Inhabitants (place) : | 49,888 (2020) | ||
Population density : | 1,247 inhabitants per km² | ||
Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
Telephone code : | (+370) 315 | ||
Postal code : | 62504 | ||
Status: | Borough | ||
Structure : | 7 microrajons | ||
Mayor : |
Nerijus Cesiulis ( LSDP ) |
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Polish Olita ) is a municipality in south-eastern Lithuania with around 50,000 inhabitants. It is the center of the southeastern part of the country ( Dzūkija ) and lies a good 90 km southwest of the state capital Vilnius on the Memel . The city is around 50 km from the borders with Belarus ( EU external border ) and Poland . It is also the administrative center of the surrounding district of Alytus .
Alytus (German, 18th century: Alitten ,history
The place was mentioned for the first time in 1377 in a chronicle of the Wigand von Marburg as a regional center in the literature. In 1581 Stephan Báthory gave the town its city charter according to Magdeburg law . During the Soviet era, several industrial plants were built, in 1969 the cotton combine ( Alytaus medvilnės Kombatas , later Alytaus tekstilė ) with 6,000 employees (in 1980) and around 1963 the refrigerator manufacturer Alytaus šaldytuvų gamykla (in 1972 the company employed 1,900 people). In 1989 there were 12 middle schools (general education schools with high school diplomas).
Alytus has been a municipality since 1995 (lit. Alytaus miesto savivaldybė ).
politics
The council of the municipality of Alytus has 27 members. They are distributed among the individual parliamentary groups and parties as follows (as of June 2020):
Social democrats | 5 seats |
Christian Democrats | 4 seats |
Fraction "Už Alytų" (For Alytus) | 3 seats |
Fraction "Vieningas Alytus" (United Alytus) | 3 seats |
Bauernvolksbund | 3 seats | |
3 seats | |
6 seats |
Nerijus Cesiulis has been the mayor since 2019 .
List of mayors
until 1990 chairman of the executive committee
- 1977-1984: Alfonsas Grigaitis
- 1984-1989: Nijolė Januškevičienė
- 1989–1990: Viktoras Valentukevičius
- 1990-1994: Valdas Macedulskas
- 1994: Ona Suncovienė (acting)
- 1994–1995: Valdas Kuzabavičius
- 1995–2000: Dobilas Kurtinaitis (1990–1995 Chairman of the City Council)
- 2000-2007: Vytautas Kirkliauskas
- 2007–2010: Česlovas Daugėla
- 2010–2012: Feliksas Džiautas
- 2012–2015: Jurgis Krasnickas
- 2015–2019: Vytautas Grigaravičius
- Since 2019: Nerijus Cesiulis
economy
Alytus is a center of the manufacturing industry. One of the most successful Lithuanian manufacturing companies - the refrigerator manufacturer Snaigė ('snowflake') - is based in Alytus. The chemical industry and the largest sparkling wine and spirits manufacturer Alita can also be found here .
In Alytus there is a technical college (former polytechnic). The nearest airport is Kaunas Airport .
In Alytus there is an HVDC short coupling for coupling the Polish and Lithuanian power grids. The system supplied by ABB was completed in 2015 and has a transmission capacity of 500 MW at an operating voltage of ± 70 kV.
In the style of a park town, Alytus, located in a bend in the river Memel, does not offer any tourist attractions worth mentioning. The Dzūkija National Park and the Druskininkai health resort are worth mentioning in the vicinity .
education
Vocational training
- Alytus College (lit. Alytaus kolegija), Alytus University, Merkinės Str. 2b
- Alytus vocational training center , vocational school
- Alytus branch of the Kaunass School of Applied Arts ( Kauno taikomosios dailės mokykla Alytaus filialas )
High schools
- Alytus High School , founded in 1919
- Jotvingių high school
- Putinų high school
- St. Benedict High School
Secondary schools
- Dainavos Secondary School
- Likiškėliai secondary school
- Vidzgiris secondary school
- Panemunė Secondary School
- Šaltinio secondary school
- Dzūkijos secondary school
- Volungės Secondary School
Other schools
- Piliakalnio-Progymnasium Alytus
- Anzelmas Matutis Primary School Alytus
- Alytus youth and adult school
Former schools
- Alytus teacher training college, educational school
- Alytus Forest School , former technical school
- School for fine crafts
art
- Alytus Theater
- Alytus Art School
- Alytus Biennal
music
- Alytus Symphony Orchestra
- Alytus Music School
Sports
Soccer
basketball
- BC Alytus
- BC Alita Alytus (1995-2006)
Facilities
- Alytaus Arena
- Alytus Sports Palace
- Center for sport and recreation
- Alytus swimming pool
- Alytus sports school
traffic
- Alytus station , built in 1899
- Antanas Juozapavičius Bridge, built in 1967
- Baltosios-rožės pedestrian and bicycle bridge , built in 2015
- Kaniūkai Bridge, first built in 1892
- Lietuvos-tūkstantmečio Bridge, 2009
religion
- St. Casimir Church , built in 1891 as an Orthodox church, completely redesigned in the 1990s after being used by others
- Marienkirche, built 1991-2001
- Ludwig Church, built 1818–1820
- Guardian Angel Church, built in 1830
- Brunon Chapel
- Former synagogue , built in 1911
Twin cities
The sister cities of Alytus are
- Opole in Poland, since 1993
- Suwałki in Poland, since 1996
- Mandal in Norway. since 1996
- Botkyrka in Sweden, since 2000
- Næstved in Denmark, since 2002
- Ostrołęka in Poland, since 2002
- Rouen in France, since 2004
- Berdychiv in Ukraine since 2005
- San Martín in Argentina, since 2006
- Lida in Belarus, since 2007
- Petrozavodsk in Russia, since 2007
- Hrodna in Belarus, since 2009
- Amata in Latvia, since 2010
- Rochester (New York) in the (USA), since 2010
- Smarhon in Belarus, since 2010
- Giżycko in Poland, since 2011
- Crawley in the UK since 2012
- Vélizy-Villacoublay in France, since 2013
- Ełk in Poland, since 2014
- Ningbo in the People's Republic of China, since 2014
- Sejny in Poland, since 2016
sons and daughters of the town
- Vytautas Andriuškevičius (* 1990), football player
- Feliksas Bajoras (* 1934), composer
- Aivaras Baranauskas (* 1980), racing cyclist
- Matas Cimbolas (* 1993), poker player
- Kęstutis Daukšys (* 1960), manager, minister of economy
- Žydrūnas Karčemarskas (* 1983), football goalkeeper
- Zvi Kolitz (1912–2002), journalist, writer and director
- Jurgis Kunčinas (1947–2002), writer, translator and Germanist
- Arminas Lydeka (* 1968), political scientist, member of Seimas
- Antanas Nedzinskas (* 1981), politician
- Tomas Pačėsas (* 1971), basketball player and coach
- Mindaugas Panka (* 1984), football player
- Ričardas Piličiauskas (* 1969), judge
- Žydrūnas Plytnikas (* 1971), administrative lawyer, politician and Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Justice
- Živilė Raudonienė (* 1982), fitness model, bodybuilder and wrestler
- Danutė Remeikienė (* 1960), teacher
- Darvydas Šernas (* 1984), football player
- Stasys Stačiokas (1937–2020), constitutional lawyer, judge, member of Seimas
- Algimantas Vladas Stasiukynas (* 1944), Manager, Energy Minister of Lithuania
- Gintaras Staučė (* 1969), national football goalkeeper (67 games)
- Bria Vinaite (born 1993), actress
- Edita Žiobienė (* 1973), lawyer
Mars crater
The Martian crater Alitus is named after Aki .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frakcijos , parliamentary groups in the city council on alytus.lt, accessed June 12, 2020
- ↑ Miesto vadovai (leader of the city) on alytus.lt, accessed June 12, 2020
- ↑ site Alytus - Miestai partneriai , accessed on November 26, 2016