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Cemeteries
The Old Town Cemetery (Senosios Miesto Kapinės), located immediately west of the bus station provides a swift and atmospheric ethnic history lesson, featuring graves going back several hundred years with inscriptions in Polish, Lithuanian, Russian and Belarusian. One can only wonder where the town’s former Tartar community are buried. The two other cemeteries of note are located just south and north of the Old Town Cemetery respectively.

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Jewish Cemetery

Jewish Cemetery
Jews started settling in Druskininkai relatively late by Lithuanian standards in the middle of the 18th century, working as craftsmen and businessmen as well as in various merchant trades. Read_on (No Comments)

Soviet Soldiers' Cemetery

Soviet Soldiers' Cemetery
The Soviet regime replaced the Nazi regime in Druskininkai with the capturing of the town by Red Army soldiers on July 14, 1944. Read_on (No Comments)