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Krakūnai is a village in
Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
on the border with
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. It is an old village, mentioned as early as 1433 when
Jonas Goštautas Jonas Gostautas or Goštautas (; c. 1393 in Geranainys or Vilnius – before 1 September 1458 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian nobleman from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the Gasztołd (Goštautai) noble family, a politician and skillful lan ...
received
Dieveniškės Dieveniškės (in Lithuanian literally: ''Place of gods''; ; ''Dzevyanishki;'' Yiddish: דיװענישאָק) is a town in the Vilnius County of Lithuania, about from the Belarusian border in the so-called Dieveniškės appendix. It is surroun ...
and 26 surrounding villages from Grand Duke
Sigismund Kęstutaitis Sigismund Kęstutaitis (, ; 136520 March 1440) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1432 to 1440. Sigismund was his baptismal name, while his pagan Lithuanian birth name is unknown. He was the son of Grand Duke Kęstutis and his wife Birutė. Aft ...
. The village had 302 residents in 1931, 283 in 1959, 249 in 1970, and 215 in 1979. According to the census of 2011, it had 86 residents. On 19 May 1991 Lithuanian border patrol Gintaras Žagunis was killed in the village by Soviet
OMON OMON is a system of military special police units within the Armed Forces of Russia. It previously operated within the structures of the Soviet and Russian Ministries of Internal Affairs (MVD). Originating as the special forces unit of the So ...
forces. It was the first deadly assault on a Lithuanian border post. A five-meter tall monument in his memory was erected in 2004, in the west part of the village


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{{Vilnius County Villages in Vilnius County