Gudžiūnai (formerly pl, Gudziuny, russian: Гудзюны) is a small town in

Kėdainiai district Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. First mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, its population is 23,667. Its old town dates to ...

, central

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

. It is located on the

Dotnuvėlė The Dotnuvėlė is a river of Kėdainiai district municipality and Radviliškis district municipality, Kaunas County, central Lithuania. It flows for 60.9 kilometres and has a basin area of 192.7 km2. It is a right tributary of the Nevėžis r ...

River. The town has a Catholic Sacred Heart church, a secondary school, and a post office. There is also a train station ( Gudžiūnai GS) just outside the town.

History

The name Gudžiūnai has been in use since at least

1653 Events January–March * January 3 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage. * January– The Swiss Peasant War begins after magistrates meeting at Lucerne ...

. The first church was built in 1812, and the current church was built in 1911. At the end of the 19th century Gudžiūnai became a town and from 1919 it was a ''

volost Volost ( rus, во́лость, p=ˈvoləsʲtʲ; ) was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe. In earlier East Slavic history, ''volost'' was a name for the territory ruled by the knyaz, a principality; either as an absolute ...

'' center. During the Soviet era Gudžiūnai was a ''

kolkhoz A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz., a contraction of советское хозяйство, soviet ownership or ...

'' center.

Demography

Gallery

File:Gudžiūnai002.JPG, Tujų street File:Gudžiūnai AG1.jpg, View from helicopter File:Gudžiūnai AG3.jpg File:Gudžiūnai AG4.jpg

References

Kėdainiai District Municipality Towns in Kaunas County {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub