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Lazdynai

Field	Value
name	Lazdynai
settlement_type	Eldership
image_skyline	Lazdynai by Augustas Didzgalvis.jpg
image_caption	Aerial view of Lazdynai
image_map	Vilniaus lazdynai.png
pushpin_map	Lithuania
pushpin_label_position
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Lazdynai
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	[[File:Vilnius County flag.svg	20px]] Vilnius County
subdivision_type3	Municipality
subdivision_name3	Vilnius city municipality
population_total	30,945
population_as_of	2021
population_footnotes
area_total_km2	9.9
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	EET
utc_offset	+2
timezone_DST	EEST
utc_offset_DST	+3

Lazdynai () is an eldership of Vilnius, Lithuania, situated on the right bank of the Neris River. It covers a area of 9.9 km2 and has a population of 31,097 (according to the 2011 census). The word means "hazel bushes" in Lithuanian.

History

Since the 1950s, the Baltic states experienced fast population growth and faced housing shortages. When Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev put forth his program of fast residential construction, based on prefabricated panel buildings dubbed khrushchovkas, it threatened the integrity of the well-preserved historical style of Vilnius. A group of architects struggled against the intrusion of khrushchovkas into the historical city center. Eventually they were awarded with the project to build a satellite city outside Vilnius. The chosen area was close to a Polish village of Leszczyniaki or Lazdynai in Lithuanian,

The architects decided to go against the Soviet architectural style and based their design on study of the architecture of Finland. Initially the authorities monitored the project with suspicion, but eventually it was accepted, and in 1974 the leading figures of the Lazdynai project (architects Vytautas Čekanauskas, , , and Gediminas Valiuškis and engineers and Vincentas Šileika) were awarded the Lenin Prize in architecture.

Notes

References

[https://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/gyventoju-ir-bustu-surasymai1 gyventojų ir būstų surašymas]
hazelnut tree]]": Polish ''[[:pl:leszczyna. leszczyna]]'' and Lithuanian ''[[:lt:lazdynas. lazdynas]]''. In Polish the term ''leszczyniak'' (singular for "leszczyniaki") also means "a person from [[Leszno]] or [[Leszno Voivodeship]]", see, e.g., the usage [http://polskalokalna.pl/wiadomosci/wielkopolskie/leszno/news/leszczyniacy-oklaskiwali-kaczynskiego,1237901 here]).
Becker, Sven (November 23, 2005). [http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/14075/ "The architectural battleground for Lithuanian independence"], [[The Baltic Times]]

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