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Rukainiai
Rukainiai ( lt, Rukainiai; pl, Rukojnie) is a village in the Vilnius District Municipality, Lithuania, located 12 km east of Vilnius city municipality, the Lithuanian capital, and 16 km from the border with Belarus. According to the 2021 census, Rukainiai had a population of 662, a decrease from 770 in 2011 and from 865 in 1989. History Rukainiai is known from 1440 when Grand Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis donated the village to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vilnius, Archdiocese of Vilnius. Bishop Paweł Holszański, a member of the Lithuanian princely Olshanski family, sponsored the construction of a wooden church in 1538. In the 18th century, there was a parochial school in Rukainiai. The church was destroyed during the French invasion of Russia in 1812. It was replaced by a Romanticism#Architecture, Romantic style stone church built in 1823, the Church of St. Michael the Archangel. Paweł Ksawery Brzostowski, famous as the founder of the Republic of Paulava, served as a prie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius District Municipality
Vilnius District Municipality ( lt, Vilniaus rajono savivaldybė) is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. It surrounds the capital city of Vilnius on 3 sides, while the rest borders the Trakai District Municipality. At the 2011 Census, Poles in Lithuania, Poles amounted to 52.07% out of 95,348 inhabitants. 32.47% were Lithuanians, 8.01% Russians in Lithuania, Russians, 4.17% Belarusians in Lithuania, Belarusians, 0.65% Ukrainians in Lithuania, Ukrainians and 0.11% History of the Jews in Lithuania#Jews in modern Lithuania, Jews. In 2021, according to the census results, ethnographic composition was the following: Lithuanians – 38.52%, Poles in Lithuania, Lithuanian Poles – 46.75%, Russians in Lithuania, Lithuanian Russians – 7.35%, Belarusians in Lithuania, Lithuanian Belarusians – 3.26%, Ukrainians in Lithuania, Ukrainians – 0.63%, Other – 0.86% and 2.64% of inhabitants did not declare their ethnographic identity. The population grew to 108,948 in January 2022 becau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
