Veiveriai
Veiveriai is a miestelis with 1167 inhabitants (2011) in the district of Prienai , Lithuania . There is a Catholic church (built in 1853), the Antanas-Kučingis Art School , the Tomas-Žilinskas-Gymnasium (elementary school from 1919). In the 19th century, the Veiveriai post office was a stop on the Warsaw - Saint Petersburg route in Tsarist Russia . From 1866 to 1915 there was the Veiveriai teachers' college here. In Veiveriai there was a collective farm in Soviet Lithuania . The town has had its own coat of arms since 2004.
people
- Aleksandras Žilinskas (1885–1942), lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice
literature
- Veiveriai . In: Lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija , XII t. Mokslo ir enciklopedijų Leidybos institutas, Vilnius 1984. T.XII: Vaislapėlis-Žvorūnė, 129 psl.