Labūnava

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|subdivision_name1 =20px Kaunas County

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|subdivision_type3 =Eldership

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|population_as_of = 2011

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Labūnava (formerly {{langx|ru|Лабуновъ, Лабуново}}, {{langx|pl|Łabunów}}) is a small town in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, town residents numbered 747. It is {{convert|11|km}} from Kėdainiai, on the left bank of the Nevėžis river, by its tributary the Barupė. The Labūnava Reservoir on the Barupė is located next to the town. Labūnava has a kindergarten, a library, a school, a forestry, an agriculture cooperative, a Catholic church of the Divine, a cemetery, and some ruins of the former manor (two towers and a hunting lodge).

History

In the 14th century, Labūnava faced attacks from the Teutonic Knights. It was mentioned for the first time in 1364, in the chronicle of Hermann von Wartberge. The Labūnava manor has been known since the 16th century. Labūnava was burned in Napoleon's 1812 campaign.

Labūnava developed greatly in the Soviet era. It became a center of the "Eastern Dawn" kolkhoz. This kolkhoz was one of the leading ones in all Lithuanian SSR. Labūnava settlement received an award at the USSR People's Achievements' Exposition in 1978.

Demography

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|1867|60

|1902|65

|1923|175

|1959|36

|1970|193

|1979|734

|1985|847

|1989|882

|2001|939

|2006|915

|2011|747

| source = [https://kresy.genealodzy.pl/gub_wil_87/kowno_wlasc.html 1902], [http://www.epaveldas.lt/recordDescription/LNB/C1B0002365127 1923], [https://knyga.lietuvai.lt/w/images/7/79/Lietuvos_gyventoj%C5%B3_sura%C5%A1ymas_1959_ir_1970.pdf 1959 & 1970], [https://knyga.lietuvai.lt/wiki/Indeksas:Lietuvos_gyventoj%C5%B3_sura%C5%A1ymas_1979.pdf 1979], [https://knyga.lietuvai.lt/wiki/Indeksas:Lietuvos_gyventoj%C5%B3_sura%C5%A1ymas_1989.pdf 1989], [https://osp.stat.gov.lt/documents/10180/212976/Kauno_apskritis.pdf/8593b78f-5d58-4f1a-aed1-d108f07398ae 2001], [http://statistics.bookdesign.lt/table_125_02.htm?lang=en 2011]}}

Images

Labūnava - panoramio (1).jpg|Labūnava Manor tower

Labunava6.jpg|Barupė street

Labunavos Dievo Apvaizdos baznycia.jpg|Labūnava Church

Labūnava. Vytautas.JPG|Vytautas monument in the Labūnava cemetery

References

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