Laumė café that was working during the Soviet times was famous for its good coffee and sweets but the most important thing there was the sense of community.

Solveiga Lukminaitė: My memories related to Laisvės alėja (Avenue) are only positive ones.

Audronė: „Prie Neries nevyko nieko įdomaus.

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Irina: “My dad is Russian.

A.K.: Russian Aesthetic Education Centre later received the name of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.

Arūnas: “I spent my childhood and youth in Kaunas.

Stasys: "Since I lived up the hill in the city, in Vaižgantas street, I used to go past the cemetery to work.

Menininko Gyčio Dovydaičio dokumentinis filmas-reportažas apie Kaunas 2022 organizuoto Istorijų festivalio 2019 centrą – Ramybės parką (Kauno senąsias kapines) – ir jo kaimynystėje gyvenačius kauniečius.

1 photographLili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): Me and my mother in the Oakwood Park in1947.

Svetlana: “I was living in Siberia and came to Lithuania from Irkutsk when I was 32 years old.

Konstantinas: “My childhood passed here, about 80 years ago.

Galina: “Formerly, the Christmas tree was decorated at Vienybės (Unity) Square.

Kęstutis: "We were living at Gričiupio Street, where the current KTU student campus is located.

1 photographPovilas and Vanda Tarnauskai, shareholders of the restaurant Versalis, with their daughter at the War Museum .

Gintaras Vitulskis: These pictures are from the 1930s: in one of them, there is a festive formation of yachtsmen (or maybe sea scouts) captured as seen from Aleksotas, and the other one with Aleksotas in the background. In 1932, the yacht club was established next to Aleksotas bridge in a building floating on a pontoon platform, the so called brandwacht.

Petras Vileišis Square (or Smėlynė, as it was called by the residents of Kaunas) was a place famous for horse racing.

D.B.: Even though that for most residents of Kaunas, Picture Gallery seems as located in a Bermuda triangle, to me it has probably become a symbolic place, where I made the decision about my profession.

Street, yard, house. I still remember where a turn should be taken in order to find myself next to the nine-store house, which was my most favourite place in my childhood.