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    54°23′N 25°5′E / 54.383°N 25.083°E / 54.383; 25.083 Rūdninkai Forest (Lithuanian: Rūdninkų giria) is the fifth-largest forest in Lithuania. This old-growth...
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  • 025°5′42″E / 54.38833°N 25.09500°E / 54.38833; 25.09500 Rūdininkai or Rūdninkai airbase is a former Soviet airbase in Lithuania located 36 km (22 mi)...
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    from the Polish-Lithuanian border. Additionally, the military base in Rūdninkai, which is 35 km (22 mi) south of Vilnius and about 125 km (78 mi) from...
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    commanded a partisan group called the Avengers ("Nokmim" in Hebrew) in the Rūdninkai forest near Vilnius and engaged in sabotage and guerrilla attacks against...
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    fighters passing through the sewers and took refuge in the forests of Rūdninkai and Naroch. After the Red Army occupied Vilnius in July 1944, she and...
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    Regiment [pl] and fought in the crucial Battle of Warsaw and then in the Rūdninkai Forest. Pilecki later was involved in the Polish–Lithuanian War as a member...
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    the assault. They had only two battalions, stationed near Jašiūnai and Rūdninkai [lt] along the Merkys River, shielding the city from Poland. Their main...
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    commander, Colonel Krzyżanowski ordered Polish units to set off for the Rūdninkai forest, while he went to the headquarters of General Ivan Chernyakhovsky...
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    uhlan regiment from 1863, it was mentioned that in the surroundings of Rūdninkai [lt] after a fierce fight, the fifteen-year-old Juozas Želigovskis was...
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    and other units defeated the Lithuanian 4th Infantry Regiment near the Rūdninkai Forest and again in a skirmish near Jašiūnai. The Polish forces reached...
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  • streets): Valdovų kelias. Rūdninkų gatvė (English: The path of rulers. Rūdninkai Street), Vilnius, 2001. Valdovų kelias. Didžioji gatvė (English: The path...
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    map also minimized and avoided marking forests and bogs. For example, Rūdninkai forest is not marked. Full title: Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae caeterumque...
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    However, Piasecki, not trusting the Soviets, departed in the direction of Rūdninkai Forest, where he encountered other AK units that avoided the Soviet trap...
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  • partisans operated from two main camps, one near Narach and another in Rūdninkai forest, from which the partisan groups reached even Samogitia. Even more...
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    coverage is 48%, with pine forests prevailing. The biggest forest is the Rūdninkai forest. The most important mineral deposits are gravel (Jašiūnai, Pabarė [lt]...
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  • more active in the area in 1943. Koniuchy is located at the edge of the Rūdninkai forest, where partisan groups, both Soviet and Jewish, set up bases from...
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    ordered all men to withdraw to the countryside. On 18 July, at the edge of Rūdninkai forest, some 6,000 Home Army soldiers concentrated, together with 12,000...
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    Polish soldiers continued the fight while making the way through Paneriai, Rūdninkai, Eišiškės and Novy Dvor [pl]. The defense of Vilnius despite initial successes...
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    County 470 Karšuva Forest (Smalininkai–Viešvilė Forest) Tauragė County 359 Rūdninkai Forest Vilnius County Alytus County 329 Lavoriškės Forest (Lavoriškės–Nemenčinė...
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    surrounding forests. Lubotzky lived in a Soviet partisan battalion in the Rūdninkai forest, taking part in raids on German convoys and on local villages....
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    town in Lithuania. It is situated on the Merkys River and an edge of the Rūdninkai Forest. According to the 2001 census, it had population of 1,879. The...
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    Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye. She joined the Soviet partisans in the Rūdninkai forest south of Vilnius, as a fighter in the "Death to Fascism" regiment...
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    Bogusze and thus avoided arrest by the NKVD. On July 19, 1944, in the Rūdninkai Forest, Janusz Prawdzic-Szlaski handed over to him the command of the...
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  • with the local defense and unsuccessful attempts to advance from the Rūdninkai Forest in the southeast deeper into the country. Formed from Lithuanian...
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  • Wilno District of the Home Army as a mounted infantry division in the Rūdninkai Forest, a mounted infantry battalion attached to the Home Army 3rd Wilno...
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    one of the partisan bases in eastern Lithuania, and the two went to the Rūdninkai forest. At the base, Yellin spent two weeks in which he underwent rapid...
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    that he died in August 1661 as the result of a highway robbery in the Rūdninkai Forest near Vilnius involves an unnamed artist aged 78, while Danckerts...
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