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Kazlų Rūda is a city in Lithuania, situated within the Kazlų Rūda Eldership and Marijampolė County. It serves as the capital of both the Kazlų Rūda Municipality and the Kazlų Rūda Eldership. The city’s earliest written record dates to 1744, which is also its inception year.
The population is recorded as 7,395 in one source and 5,666 in another. The city has an elevation of 95 meters above sea level according to one dataset, while another lists it at 69 meters. Kazlų Rūda is twinned with Sondershausen, Gusev, Frombork, and Lwówek. An industrial facility named IKEA Industry is located on Gedimino g. in the city.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kazlų Rūda
- Region
- Marijampolės apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 5,666
- Timezone
- Europe/Vilnius
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Lithuania
- Ethnographic region
- Suvalkija
- County
- Marijampole County
- Municipality
- Kazlų Rūda municipality
- Eldership
- Kazlų Rūda eldership
- Capital of
- Kazlų Rūda municipality , Kazlų Rūda eldership
- Mayor
- Mantas Varaška
- Total
- 5,666
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( EEST )
- Website
- Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Kazlų Rūda (pronunciation) is a city in the Marijampole County in southern Lithuania. It is located 27 km (17 miles) north from Marijampolė. The city is surrounded by forests, but a railway line crosses the city and divides it into almost equal parts.
The former Soviet Army Kazlų Rūda airbase is 5 km (3.1 mi) northeast of Kazlų Rūda.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kazlų Rūda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.