Varlaukis
Varlaukis | ||
State : | Lithuania | |
District : | Tauragė | |
Rajong municipality : | Jurbarkas | |
Coordinates : | 55 ° 19 ′ N , 22 ° 40 ′ E | |
Inhabitants (place) : | 142 (2011) | |
Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | |
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Varlaukis is a village with 142 inhabitants (2011) in the Eržvilkas district , in the Jurbarkas district in Lithuania , 7 km north of Eržvilkas , on the KK198 Jurbarkas - Skaudvilė highway , on the right bank of the Šešuvis . There is a wooden Varlaukis Catholic Church (built in 1833) and a section of the Eržvilkas grammar school. The Varlaukis forest district ( forest district ) covers 1,500 hectares. In 1970, 233 residents lived in the village. In Lybiškiai there was the Varlaukis train station.
people
- Jonas Novakauskas (1908–1993), composer
literature
- Varlaukis. Mažoji lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija, T. 3 (R – Ž). Vilnius, Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija, 1971, 687 psl.
- Varlaukis. Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija, T. 4 (Simno-Žvorūnė). - Vilnius: Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija, 1988. 458 psl.