Aukštieji Šančiai Cemetery
Aukštieji Šančiai Cemetery
- Address
- Asmenos gatvė 1 S of Kaunas Station Area
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Holds the bodies of beloved Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stanislovas Girėnas who died on 15 July 1933, 650km short of completing the longest nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
Two days after the duo set off from New York, 25,000 people gathered at Kaunas airport for their triumphant return. They never arrived. Their orange plane Lituanica crashed in Germany; see the wreckage in the Military Museum of Vytautas the Great. After being embalmed, then hidden during Soviet occupation, the bodies came to rest here at in 1964.
