The student campus in Saulėtekis is a late Soviet-era project to move academic centres out of Vilnius Old Town. Known as ‘New York’ and ‘Kamchatka’, this relatively young district of Vilnius is today home to departments of Vilnius University (VU), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (now ‘Vilnius Tech’), and various business centres. The original idea was to create a student campus with dormitories, faculties, and leisure facilities in one place. On this tour, you will have the opportunity to get to know a campus that is constantly modernising and renewing, and that is still expanding and changing today. Following the route, you will see the modernisation of Saulėtekis from the first buildings to today’s modern research centres.
What will you learn/see on this route?
- Where did the names ‘New York’ and ‘Kamchatka’ come from?
- How did students spend their free time during the Soviet era?
- Where are the most modern and innovative scientific discoveries taking place today?
