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 Suvalkija region has always been known for famous and well educated people in the history of Lithuania. This presentation seeks to introduce five persons who have their roots from the region as well as are well known in present day Lithuania.
These personalities represent different fields such as Sports,
Art, Music, History and Literature.

A famous sportsman from Kalvarija is Evaldas Grigaitis. He is just 25 years old and plays for the best football club in Lithuania- “V ė tra”.
He also was a student at Kalvarijos gymnasium.
As for his appearance he is quite a handsome man: neither tall nor slender. He is well built and loves wearing casually elegant clothes such as t-shirts and jeans. He is crazy about sport. Evaldas not only loves playing football. He also enjoys playing volleyball and basketball. He is a friendly personality as most of his time is devoted to his friends, he also loves children and children love him, too. So I have to say that Evaldas Grigaitis is a wonderful man. However, he is an incredible football player, he has got a promising future as a football player.

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Born in 1977 in a small village Jungenai close to Kalvarija Egidijus
Bavykinas is a well known oper singer in Lithuania nowadays. He studied at Marijampol ė Teacher Training college ,played for
Lithuanian students basketball league, he also was a church choir singer. Today he performs different roles in Kaunas Music theatre.
Egidijus is a good – looking man. He has curly brown hair and blue eyes, and he is of medium build. He likes to wear comfortable and stylish clothing.
Egidijus friends think that he is friendly, reasonable, interesting and helpful man. In his free time Egidijus plays basketball, reads books and is interested in culture. As he lives in the suburbs of
Marijampole he is fond of spending time with family.
I think that this person is very interesting and talented. I am proud that Egidijus Bavikinas is from Marijampol ė district.

Anzelmas Matutis was born in 1923. January 7.This year is the year of his 90 th anniversary. He is known as children’s poet as well as an editor and famous personality in Marijampole region.
His career started after graduating from teachers’ seminary in
1942 in Marijampole. He taught the Lithuanian language and literature and was one of those poets who loved composing poems for the smallest readers. A.M atutis is still beloved by children his poems aims at the love for nature and homeland.
His birthplace cottage in Zomcine village is an open memorial museum for those who are interested in his poetry and for those who wish to visit a wooden sculpture park depicting his heroes.

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Jonas Basanavičius was born in 1851. November 23., Ožkabaliai, Bartninkai parish,
Marijampolės County .Died 1927. February 16. . Thsi is the person who contributed to the history of our country a lot. He was a well known doctor, editor of the first
Lithuanuan newspaper Ausra ( published in Poland), a professor at university and the personality we come across on the banknote of Lithuanian currency Litas.
Speaking about his passion to the native language it is worth mentioning that he worked a lot to gather songs, tales, myths and legends that were passed from generation to generation.
He started he pursued a career of a doctor after graduating the Moscow Medical
Academy. As it was difficult to his parents to make both ends meet , he also supplemented his income by taking up private tutoring, but the living conditions were harsh and that had a long lasting impact on his health.
Because of his active efforts to preserve the Lithuanian language as the country was under the strict ruling of Tzar, he was deemed to exile and work in Russia. He took an option given by his colleague and fleed to Bulgaria where he had been working as a doctor since 1880-1905.
About 40 studies from history, archeology, culture, history, ethnography, folklore, linguistics, sanitation, about 140 different items were compiled and published .
He died in Wilno (Vilnius) on February 16, 1927, Lithuanian Independence Day, and was buried in Rasos Cemetery.

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Born in 1959 Antanas Lastauskas in Islandziu village is a famous craftsman of wood work, in particular, cross-crafting.
He lives in Kalvarija and he plunged into the world of wooden folk in
1989. His first exhibition on “Bread Road” was held in 2004 in
Kalvarijos public library. He is an active participant in various exhibitions, fairs, competitions not only in Lithuania, but also abroad.
He carves pillar type crosses, wooden monuments. One of his masterpieces is situated in the churchyard of Kalvarijos church and is devoted to those who had been deported.
He has been a member of Lithuanian folk artists union since 2003. What is more, he has been awarded with many prises for ethnographic heritage.
Today he is willing to give lessons of wood carving to young pupils who come to visit his workshops.

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Jurgita Kupcinskaite personal photo album (sportsman
Evaldas Grigaitis)
Egidijus Bavykinas (family photo album)
Jonas Basanavicius (scaned banknotes)
Antanas Lastauskas photos of his works.(Kalvarijos gymnasium photo album)