Lionginas Šepetys (23 November 1926 – 9 December 2017) was a

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 ...

n politician. He became Chairman of the

Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR The Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR (; , ''Verkhovnyy Sovet Litovskoy SSR'') was the supreme soviet (main legislative institution) of the Lithuanian SSR, one of the republics constituting the Soviet Union. The Supreme Soviet was established ...

in 1981. In 1990 Šepetys was among those who signed the

Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of 11 March () was an Declaration of independence, independence declaration by Lithuania adopted on 11 March 1990, signed by all members of the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Se ...

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Petras Griškevičius Petras Petrovičius Griškevičius (; 19 July 1924 – 14 November 1987) was a Lithuanian communist politician and Nomenklatura in the Lithuanian SSR. He was the First Secretary of the Lithuanian Communist Party (''de facto'' leader of Lithuanian ...

(left) at the ribbon cutting for the Lithuanian Folk Museum (''Lietuvos liaudies buities muziejus'') outside

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in 1974, from the Lithuanian Central State Archives
archived
13 March 2016 1927 births 2017 deaths Lithuanian communists Culture ministers of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic People from Ukmergė District Municipality {{Lithuania-politician-stub