Pasvalys

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Pasvalys
Town
Pasvalys from top.jpg
Coat of arms of Pasvalys
Coat of arms
Pasvalys is located in Lithuania
Pasvalys
Pasvalys
Location of Pasvalys
Coordinates: 56°3′34″N 24°24′13″E / 56.05944°N 24.40361°E / 56.05944; 24.40361Coordinates: 56°3′34″N 24°24′13″E / 56.05944°N 24.40361°E / 56.05944; 24.40361
CountryLithuania
Ethnographic regionAukštaitija
CountyPanevezys County flag.svg Panevėžys County
MunicipalityPasvalys district municipality
Capital ofPasvalys district municipality
Pasvalys city eldership
Pasvalys rural eldership
First mentioned1497
Granted town rights1946
Population
 (2020)
 • Total6,361
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Websitewww.pasvalys.lt

Pasvalys (About this soundpronunciation (help·info)) is a town in Panevėžys County, Lithuania, located near the bank of the Svalia River.

History[]

In 1557, the Treaty of Pasvalys was signed in the town, which provoked Ivan IV of Russia to start the Livonian War. Pasvalys has mineral spring waters – in 1923 physician K. Armonas created a small sanatorium. At this time about 200 people spent time in sanatorium yearly.

Soviet occupation and mass deportations in 1941 were devastating – most of the most active teachers and civil servants, intellectuals were deported to remote regions in Russia and Central Asia.

In August 1941, 1349 Jews from the village and the surroundings were executed by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and local collaborators as mentioned in the Jäger Report.[1]

After 1944 Soviet mass deportations started again – the main target were farmers and their families. Hundreds of families were deported. The program of forced collectivisation has started.[2]

Since 1947 partisans of Pasvalys district fought against Soviet occupants. Pasvalys' partisans belonged to Algimantas military district (apygarda), later - to Vytis military district of the Lithuanian partisans. Most of the partisans operated in Žalioji rinktinė (The Green Squad), which was based in Žalioji giria (The Green Forest).[3]

Education[]

Pasvalys Gimnasium of Petras Vileisis.

Industry[]

Pasvalys is famous for its farmhouse beer and is a part of Beer Route in Lithuania.

Cheese factory owned by company Pieno Žvaigždės is located in the city.

Sports[]

Pasvalys has its basketball club - BC Pieno žvaigždės.

Gallery[]

Twin towns and Sister cities[]

Pasvalys is twinned with:

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/49/
  2. ^ "The Collectivization of Lithuanian Agriculture (1940 -1952)". Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  3. ^ Apie pokario kovas Pasvalio krašte


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