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Arvydas Sabonis (b. 19.12.1964), basketball player, who appeared on the basketball scene in 1982, as the youngest player of the Kaunas "Zalgiris" Team. He became a winner in the Olympic Games, as a member of the USSR team. He was recognised by basketball experts as the best European Player (1984 and 1985), third (1984) and second (1985) in the world. On two occasions, in 1992 and 1996, as a member of the Lithuanian team, he won the Olympic Games Bronze Medal. Currently, he is a member of the US NBA "Portland Blazers" team.
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Vytautas Sirvydis (b. 05.03.1935), surgeon-cardiologist, Doctor Habil., in Medical Science, Professor of Vilnius University. In 1964 he performed the first heart operation employing an artificial blood circulation technique. Author of science books, textbooks and many articles. In working collectively with colleagues, he created an experimental heart transplant model and performed his first heart transplant operation based on it in 1987. Chief of Cardiac Surgery Clinic in Vilnius. At the end of 1996, the 9th heart transplant operation was performed at this clinic.
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Saulius Sondeckis (b. 11.10.1928) conductor, violinist, and Professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music. Since 1955, conductor of the Chamber Music and the Symphony Orchestras. In 1960 he founded the Lithuanian Chamber Music Orchestra, which he heads and conducts to this day. The orchestra won a gold medal at the H. von Karajan Fund Competition in Berlin in 1976. The orchestra's repertoire includes all of the works of J. S. Bach and Mozart. S. Sondeckis draws praise at many international festivals; in Lithuania, he has initiated a number of traditions in chamber music. He has recorded over 100 records. His work is marked by subtlety of taste and great mastery.
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Egle Spokaite (b. 15.01.1971.), a graduate of the Vilnius School of Ballet, is a soloist with the Lithuanian Opera Theatre. Performs leading roles in the most famous ballets: "Coppelia," "Swan Lake," "The Nutcracker", "Sleeping Beauty," "Giselle," "Romeo and Julliet," "Don Quixote," and "Carmen." She has performed on tour in the USA, Germany, Holland, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Poland and France. 1994: prize-winner and laureate of ballet competitions in St Petersburg and Perm (Russia); 1995: prize-winner of the ballet competition in Helsinki; 1996: prize winner of the ballet competition in Nagoya (Japan).
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Kazimieras Vasiliauskas (b. 09.04.1922.), Catholic priest, monsignor, one of the most influential individuals in Lithuanian society. Spent 1950-58 as a political prisoner in Stalin's concentration camps and the coal mines in Komi. The Soviet authorities only permitted him to return to Lithuania in 1969. With the beginning of the rebirth movement and return of the Vilnius Cathedral to the church in 1989, he became its first pastor, and somewhat later, rector of the restored Vilnius Seminary. In 1995, he was awarded the Concord Prize of Lithuania for his peace-promoting activity in society.
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