Žagarė
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Žagarė is a city located in the Joniškis district, northern Lithuania, close to the border with Latvia. It has a population of about 2,000, down from 14,000 in 1914, when it was the 7th largest city i
Žagarė Manor
Isaak Kikoin
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Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin was a Soviet physicist and an author of physics textbooks in Russian language who played an important role in the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
Žagarė
…that contributed to its culture. Yisroel Salanter (1810–1883), the father of the 19th-century Mussar movement in Orthodox Judaism, was born there. Isaak Kikoin (1908–1984), a renowned Soviet physicist, was also born there. The Jewish quarter in Žagarė was among those damaged in 1881 as part of the violence…
Bust of Isaak Kikoin in Pskov