Among the more customary rows of fallen troops including Lithuanians, Russians and Germans are a handful of monuments commemorating some truly outstanding characters including pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, the Lithuanian fighter pilot and cosmonaut Rimantas Stankevičius (b.1944) who test flew the OK-GLI as part of the Soviet Union’s ill-fated Space Shuttle Buran project and who died giving a display at an air show in Italy in 1990, and, last but not least, Karolis Požela (b.1896), Juozas Greifenbergeris (b.1898), Kazys Giedrys (b.1890) and Rapolas Čarnas (b.1900), better known as the Keturi Komunarai (Four Communards), a quartet of communists murdered during the 1926 military coup d'état that brought an end to Lithuania’s fledging democracy, plunging the country into a dictatorship that lasted until the Soviet invasion of 1940. To get there, take bus Nº12 or 15 to the Karių Kapinės stop.