An open-air museum of blocks of flats - this is how a publication about Vilnius micro-districts is presented Žirmūnas. Žirmūnai is a Vilnius microdistrict on the right bank of the Neris river, north of the city center. Once there were several villages in the territory of present-day Žirmūnai: Leoniškės, Kazliškės, Šeimyniškės and Pašeimyniškės. XNUMXth century at the end the villages are in ruins.
"Exactly the XNUMXth century, where it is now Tuskulėnai rimties park, was a manor, it was built by Žygymantas Augustas himself, and the manor itself is called Derevnicva in the sources. Such as a home farm, its purpose is to provide vegetables and food for the king's castle. The serfs and those freed people who worked on that estate were called the family, the place where they lived, Seimyniškės, that's how we have Šeimyniškės.
The history of that manor is rather confusing, at one point in the XNUMXth century. the territory of the manor is divided into two parts, one part of the manor has fallen into disrepair, and what is left of the other is the Tuskulėnai manor," said the Vilnius District. Edita Sėdaitytė, an employee of the A. Mickevičius Public Library.
The current image of the Žirmūnai district began to take shape in 1962-1964. At the beginning of the 7th decade Žirmūnai there were only a few streets with wooden houses. in 1962 in their place, on an area of 127 hectares, three micro-districts were planned, which received the conditional names D-10, D-18 and D-25, later named under the common name of Žirmūnai.
For the construction of the Žirmūnai microdistrict, the right bank of the Neris before Antakalni was allocated. District until 1965 it is intended to be built with five-, nine- and twelve-story residential buildings. For the authors of this microdistrict, four architects, in 1968. the state prize of the USSR was awarded - at that time it raised the prestige of Lithuanian architects.
Pray restaurant "Žirmūnai" in 1970 Kazios Kisiel's sculpture "Joy" was erected. Part of this sculpture was vandalized and disappeared, but this year it was restored.
