ElektrÄ—nai

Listen Elektrėnai? / I is a Lithuanian town about 40 kilometers west of the capital, Vilnius, on the banks of the artificial lake of the same name. There live 13 664 inhabitants. It is the seat of a self-governing municipality with 28,093 inhabitants, and the seat of one of the 8 administrative districts of the municipality.

City

Together with the construction of oil and gas turbine power plant was the city whose name refers to the electricity, founded in 1962. In recent years, this power plant led a shadowy existence in competition with the Ignalina nuclear power plant and has been used only to a fraction of its capacity (1800 MW). Following the closure of Ignalina in 2009, this plant was again the largest electricity producer in Lithuania.

The cityscape shape prefabricated from the 1960s and 1970s. The large modern St. Mary's Church was built in 1996 after the independence of the country in response to the long years as the first atheistic model city in the former Soviet Republic of Lithuania.

With Energia Elektrėnai the city is home to an internationally renowned hockey club.

Mayor 's Arvydas Vyšniauskas.