The memorial of the January Events' victims in the Antakalnis Cemetery

Antakalnis Cemetery (Lithuanian: Antakalnio kapinės, Polish: Cmentarz antokolski), sometimes referred as Antakalnis Military Cemetery, is the cemetery in Antakalnis district of Vilnius in Lithuania. It has been established in 1809. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2321x1547, 3873 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): January Events Antakalnis Cemetery Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2321x1547, 3873 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): January Events Antakalnis Cemetery Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner... St Peter and St Pauls Church against Antakalnis hills Antakalnis elderate in Vilnius Antakalnis is an elderate in the Vilnius city municipality. ... Location Ethnographic region AukÅ¡taitija County Vilnius County Municipality Vilnius city municipality Coordinates Number of elderates 20 General Information Capital of Lithuania Vilnius County Vilnius city municipality Vilnius district municipality Population 540,318 in 2005 (1st) First mentioned 1323 Granted city rights 1387 Vilna redirects here. ...

The victims of Soviet Army forces' attacks during the January Events of 1991 and the Medininkai Massacre are buried here. Other graves include those of Polish soldiers perished in 1919-1920, a memorial of Lithuanian as well as German and Russian soldiers fallen in World War I and Red Army soldiers of World War II (constructed in 1951, rebuilt 1976-1984). This article is about the armed forces of the Soviet Union. ... January Events (Lithuanian: Sausio įvykiai) is a series of events that occurred on January 11-13, 1991 in Vilnius, Lithuania. ... Several Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts occured in 1991, after Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union, and began establishing control of its borders. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul... The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (in Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya), the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...

The famous people buried in the Antakalnis Cemetery include:

• Marian Zdziechowski (1861-1938) - historian
• Teodor Bujnicki (1907-1944) - poet (killed by the AK)
• Ieva Simonaitytė (1897-1978) - writer
• Antanas Venclova (1906-1979) - writer

Teodor Bujnicki (1907-1944) was a Polish poet, writing for Żagary magazine. ... For other meanings of Home Army see: Home Army (disambiguation) The Armia Krajowa or AK (Home Army) functioned as the pre-eminent underground military organization in German-occupied Poland, which functioned in all areas of the country from September 1939 until its disbanding in January 1945. ... Antanas Venclova Antanas Venclova (7 January 1906 (O.S. 26 December 1905 {{{4}}}) in Trempiniai – June 28, 1971 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian poet, journalist and translator. ...

Saulės Cemetery

Former St. Peter and St. Paul parish cemetery

The Saulės Cemetery is another cemetery in Antakalnis sometimes referred to as Antakalnis Cemetery. It is the old parish cemetery of St. Peter and St. Paul Church, established in 1830 and is the place of rest of many noble Lithuanians. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 4131 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Antakalnis Cemetery Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 4131 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Antakalnis Cemetery Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Front view of the church St. ...

Famous people buried here include members of Oginski and Zawisza families, Danielius Alseika, Jonas Kazlauskas, Teodoras Valaitis and Józef Zawadzki (1781-1838), the editor of the first poems of Adam Mickiewicz. Zawisza Czarny, a famous Polish medieval knight and diplomat Zawisza (Szare Szeregi), a group of the youngest Scout of the Szare Szeregi Zawisza Czarny (ship), a sailing-ship This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Józef Zawadzki Józef Zawadzki (b. ... Adam Mickiewicz. ...

Image gallery

Military part of the cemetery Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1743 KB) Antokol cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania. ...

Monument of Red Army soldiers Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 3115 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Antakalnis Cemetery Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to...

Monument for German and Russian soldiers of World War I Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2167x1443, 2582 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Antakalnis Cemetery Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul...

External links

• (English) Visitor's guide to Antalkalnis Cemetery

Coordinates: 54.698° N 25.321° E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...