The 12-hecatre park immediately north of the city centre was created by the Soviet administration soon after the end of WWII, who used gangs of comrade volunteers to lay it out, plant trees etc. Now looking fully grown up, the park is a lovely place to spend time throughout the year. Trees include sycamore and European larch, there are pleasant walkways, an ancient funfair and even a summer concert stage. The white, two-storey building at Aušros 50, situated in the far south of the park, was once a library, where the Lithuanian man of letters Jonas Jablonskis (1860-1930) once worked. In 1920 it became a school and now belongs to the Arts faculty of Šiauliai University.