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    worked in the old Rūdninkai Forestry, wrote the book "Rūdninkai Forest". During the war, the Germans burned several villages in the forest. On 3 June 1944...
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    (10 mi) from the border with Belarus. It is surrounded by Rūdninkai Forest, the fifth largest forest in Lithuania. It is part of a larger training complex...
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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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  • liquidation of the ghetto began, she escaped with a group of comrades to the Rūdninkai Forest, where they joined the Soviet partisans. Initially, she fought in the...
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  • 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 which...
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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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    Forests in Lithuania cover approximately one third of Lithuania's territory. Of these, around half are publicly owned, and one third are privately owned;...
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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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    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 town's...
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    is located in the district. Forest coverage is 48%, with pine forests prevailing. The biggest forest is the Rūdninkai forest. The most important mineral...
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