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Visaginas (pronunciationⓘ) is a city in northeastern Lithuania. It is the centre of Lithuania's youngest municipality, located on the north-eastern edge of the country. It was built as a town for workers engaged in the construction of the now decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. Visaginas is the only city in Lithuania where the majority of population speaks Russian as their first language.[1] Originally the aerial view of Visaginas was designed to resemble a butterfly. However, after work on the nuclear power plant was cancelled, so was further construction of the town. Currently Visaginas consists of three residential regions that locals refer to as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Microdistricts. Visaginas has 14 streets. The city grew up in a pine forest by Lake Visaginas. Tourism is currently an area of great potential, as is the possibility of a new nuclear power plant.
The administrative centre of Visaginas municipality is situated near the country's biggest lake, Drūkšiai. Its administrative boundaries are in the process of being defined. The Vilnius–Daugavpils (Latvia) railway runs alongside the city, providing convenient communication with those cities.
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town. Currently Visaginas consists of three residential regions that locals refer to as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Microdistricts. Visaginas has 14 streets....
city of Visaginas, but on 1 January 2003 its area was expanded by absorbing a part of the Ignalina District Municipality, and the Visaginas City Municipality...
very close to Visaginas. According to the instigator of the Visaginas proposal, former energy minister Arvydas Sekmokas, the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant...
20th century, cities grew next to big industrial centers, for example Visaginas, Elektrėnai and Naujoji Akmenė. Five cities (Birštonas, Druskininkai,...
IAE) is a decommissioned two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania. It was named after the nearby city of Ignalina...
and Latvia, the country considered participating in constructing the Visaginas nuclear power plant in Lithuania to replace the Ignalina nuclear plant...
FK Visaginas (also previously Interas-AE) is a Lithuanian football team from Visaginas. Before 2006, the club was fully amateur and many players of the...
and 28% in Klaipėda. Kaunas has just 4.4% ethnic Russians. The town of Visaginas was built for workers at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and therefore...
new – Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania. However, a non-binding referendum held in October 2012 clouded the prospects for the Visaginas project...
support from the Polish-majority Šalčininkai region and his hometown of Visaginas, which is predominantly inhabited by ethnic Russians. National security...
participated in several national and international festivals, including Visaginas Country and the Eurovision Song Contest. 4Fun had participated in the...
lack strong political cohesion. The most prominent community lives in Visaginas (47%). Most of them are engineers who moved with their families from the...
Ukrainians with centers in Vilnius, Visaginas, Jonava, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Panevežys. There are Ukrainian Sunday schools in Visaginas, Jonava, Klaipėda. Ukrainian...
municipality Molėtai district municipality Utena district municipality Visaginas municipality Zarasai district municipality Area • Total 7,191 km2 (2...
standards. The country planned to replace them with safer reactors at Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant. The MKER is a modern Russian-engineered channel type...
Kupiškis, Marijampolė, Molėtai, Obeliai, Rokiškis, Širvintos, Utena, Visaginas and Zarasai.[citation needed] The only international link to the airport...
the Lithuanian Population Regions with significant populations Vilnius, Visaginas, Klaipėda Languages Russian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Ukrainian Religion...
Lithuanian electorate against and 34.1% for. In 2016 the instigator of the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant new build proposal, former energy minister Arvydas...
towns and villages there are very few Russians (with the exception of Visaginas). In all, 5% of Lithuania's population are ethnic Russians. Russians make...
famous for the now decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in nearby Visaginas. It is said that Ignalina got its name from two lovers Lina, daughter...
the same house. After marriage they moved to Lithuania, to the town of Visaginas which serviced the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, where Alina's father...
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