Užupė

Užupė ('a place across the river', formerly Polish: Użupie,[1] Russian: Ужупе) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania.

[2] It is located 4 km from Surviliškis, by the Liaudė river, inside the Krekenava Regional Park.

During the Soviet era, Užupė was a subsidiary settlement of Švyturys kolkhoz.

[3] At the beginning of the 21st century, an ancient ritual of sprinkling each other with water before Easter in the hope of better harvest was still observed in Užupė.

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