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Characters of this route: historian Dainius Elerts, shipbuilding engineer Michailas Nedovidejevas. The team of the show will be accompanied by the choreographer Laura Gerašchenko of the Klaipėda Dance Theater "Judesio svėsa". This route will take you to the interwar port of Klaipėda. After losing Vilnius, Greater Lithuania began to strengthen the position of the maritime state. According to historian D. Elert, the biggest warehouses and companies were built here, but the strange ambitions of Lithuanians to invest in the port surprised the Germans. "They wondered, why invest so much here, if this country will fall like an apple into the Reich's palm," says D. Elerts. The first object is the Klaipėda Port Board, which is famously called the "brain" of the first Lithuanian port. The most famous Lithuanian marine engineers worked here between the wars. Unfortunately, today this building is abandoned and only recently received the status of an object with valuable properties. Another object is the Paulius Lindenau Shipyard, where as many as 55 ships were built before the Soviets appeared. It is interesting that a technology never seen before in this region was used here for the first time - boiling. The show's team will visit the nearby forge, where engineer M. Nedovideevs will tell you that blacksmiths and surgeons have a lot more in common than may appear at first glance. The Locmani House is a historical treasure that has been the subject of fierce battles for several years, and was finally entered into the register of cultural values. This is the only surviving office building of the old Klaipėda port, which was planned to be demolished in 2019. Juozas Andžejauskas, the captain of the first Lithuanian sea ships "Jūratė" and "Kastytis", lived in this house. The viewers of the show will have a unique opportunity to see the attic of the old building, through the windows of which the pilots of that time looked at the port. It is interesting that even after Germany occupied Klaipėda for more than a year, this building remained the territory of Lithuania, where our tricolor flew until the arrival of the Soviets. How did the Lithuanians manage to convince the Germans to grant exclusive rights? And how did Klaipėda end up in the top three Baltic seaports? "Stop lane" - Sundays at 11 a.m. through LRT PLUS. Let's communicate on social networks: Facebook: / stopjuosta Instagram: / stop_juosta