Lionginas Šepetys
Lionginas Šepetys | |
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Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR | |
In office June 1981 – March 10, 1990 | |
Prime Minister | Vytautas Sakalauskas Ringaudas Songaila |
Preceded by | Ringaudas Songaila |
Succeeded by | Vytautas Landsbergis (Chairman of the Supreme Council) |
Personal details | |
Born | Kazliškiai, Ukmergė District | 23 November 1927
Died | 9 December 2017 Vilnius, Lithuania | (aged 90)
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Lionginas Šepetys (November 23, 1927 – December 9, 2017) was a Lithuanian politician. He became Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR in 1981. In 1990 Šepetys was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
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- Photo of Lionginas Šepetys (right) and Petras Griškevičius (left) at the ribbon cutting for the Lithuanian Folk Museum (Lietuvos liaudies buities muziejus) outside Kaunas in 1974, from the Lithuanian Central State Archives. archived 13 March 2016
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