Mūsų Lietuva

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Mūsų Lietuva (German: Our Lithuania) is a Lithuanian encyclopedia about Lithuanian cities and towns.

history

A total of 4 volumes with 3,036 pages and over 3,000 photos and illustrations were published. The work was created between 1955 and 1987.

The archive materials are now at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas .

The author of Mūsų Lietuva is Bronius Kviklys , who studied journalism, law and economics at Kaunas University and emigrated to the USA. He worked in a factory in Chicago for over 20 years .

Bronius Kviklys researched archives for over 32 years and organized the publication. At that time the archives in Lithuania were not accessible to foreigners.

During the Soviet era, “Mūsų Lietuva” had a print run of 30,000 and was immediately sold out.

Another edition around 1995 was destroyed.