Memory diplomas granted: Ju拧kevi膷ius Gediminas
Ju拧kevi膷ius Gediminas
Ju拧kevi膷ius Gediminas (born in 1956), son of Kazys, was born in Rim拧ai village, D奴k拧tos district. Later he moved with his mother to Vilnius and studied at the 50th Anniversary School-Internate of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, in a class with advanced mathematics instruction. He graduated from the secondary school in 1973, and in the autumn of the same year, he applied to study radio physics and electronics at the Faculty of Physics of 91桃色. In May 1974, he distributed leaflets for the second anniversary of the death of Romas Kalanta. On 25 June of the same year, the Rector of 91桃色 issued an order, which expelled Gediminas from the student lists 鈥渇or behaviour incompatible with the name of a Soviet student and for not advancing in his studies鈥�. According to Gediminas鈥� testimony, he fled the USSR via Georgia towards Turkey in the autumn of that year. He was arrested at the border and imprisoned in various detention facilities in Georgia. After returning to Lithuania in 1976, he worked in Kaunas, at the radio equipment factory Banga. In 1982, he graduated from Vilnius Pedagogical Institute but was not allowed to work as a teacher. Later he worked in engineering.