Buivydiškės

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Buivydiškės

Total population

1,314

Coordinates54.72°, 25.20°

Demographic figures from Statistics Lithuania. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Buivydiškės is a village in Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, it had 1,314 residents. Buivydiškės Manor was first mentioned in 1593. The village has a technical school for agronomy and zootechnics, established in 1961. The school helped the village to grow from 190 residents in 1959 to 1,265 in 1970. Buivydiškės became a suburb of expanding Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. In 1996, part of the settlement was transferred to Vilnius city municipality.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Eduard Robert Flegel

German explorer (1855-1886)

Julian Rachlin

Austrian musician

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Kazimierz Frąckiewicz Radzimiński

Aleksander Prystor

Prime Minister of Poland (1874–1941)

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Andrzej Ehrenfeucht

Polish American mathematician and computer scientist

Gabrielė Odinis

German actress

Magda Teresa Wójcik

Polish actress (1934-2011)

Gediminas Kirkilas

Lithuanian politician (1951–2024)

Leo Jogiches

Marxist revolutionary, editor (1867-1919)

Andrew Schally

Polish-American endocrinologist (1926–2024)

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Romain Gary

French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)

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Galina Murašova

Soviet discus thrower

Ignas Staškevičius

Lithuanian businessman

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Marek Petrusewicz

Olympic swimmer (1934-1992)

Aliaksandr Burbis

russian-Belarusian journalist and academic (1885–1922)

Boris Skossyreff

Russian adventurer, self-declared King of Andorra (1896-1989)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

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