Dotnuva (formerly Polish: Datnów, Russian: Датновъ, Датново, Датнов, German: Dotnau) is a small town with a 2003 population of 775 in central Lithuania, 10 km northwest of Kėdainiai, in the Kėdainiai district municipality.

There is a Catholic church, former Bernardine monastery, an abandoned sawmill and watermill in Dotnuva.

But as the monks got involved in the 1831 Uprising against Russian rule, the school was closed in 1836.

On 26 February 1947, the first kolkhoz in Lithuania – the Marytės Melnikaitės kolūkis – was established nearby.

[2] From 1956 to 1996, Dotnuva held the status of city but later was declared as a town.