Pelėdnagiai

Pelėdnagiai (formerly Russian: Пеладноги, Polish: Pełednogi) is a small town in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania.

[1] It is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from Kėdainiai, on the left bank of the Nevėžis river, by its tributary the Ašarėna.

The name derives from the Lithuanian word pelėdnagis (literally 'one with owl's claws') which means 'ham-fisted, dummy'.

There was the Pelėdnagiai manor (some of its buildings are still present nearby the Nevėžis river) and watermill.

[3] During the Soviet era Pelėdnagiai largely developed as it was a central settlement of Kėdainiai forestry farm and an administration of the Directorate of Land Development and Building (Lithuanian: Melioracijos statybos valdyba, MSV).