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Kaunas - the temporary capital (1919-1939) of Lithuania.  
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Please, open our MAPS chapter to find places on the map.
State institutions, foreign consulates and embassies were in Kaunas during that time.  The buildings of former embassies, state institutions:
The Historical Presidential Palace - Vilniaus str.33
The house of Parlament- Gimnazijos str.3 (until 1926)
The house of Government - Donelaičio  58 

Ministry of Justice Palace and Parlament (from 1926) - Ožeškienės g. 12/L. Sapiegos g. 5
Ministry of Foreigh  Affairs -  Maironio str. 27 (1919-1922) , Daukanto str. 25 (until 1935), Donelaičio 73 (from 1935)

Former Kaunas County Municipality Palace and the Department of State Security ​, Vytauto str. 91
Ministry of national defence, Gedimino str. 25 (currently depends to Lithuanian military forces).

USA embassy and consulate - Putvinskio str.68 
Czekoslovakia embassy  Putvinskio str.60 (1934-1939), Laisvės av. 28 (1924-1933)
Vatican diplomatic mission - Putvinskio str.56, Donelaičio str.74-3 (1927-1939)
Hungary consulate - Putvinskio str.54-4 (1938-1939), Putvinskio str. 11 (1940)
Soviet Union trade representative - Putvinskio str.42
Swedish general consulate - Putvinskio str.64 (1931-1932), Putvinskio str. 60 (1939-1940)
Estonian embassy -  Donelaičio 71 (1928-1933), Parodos str. 11 (1933-1940)


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Norway honour consulate - Nepriklausomybės sq. 7
Polish embassy - Kęstučio str. 38
Great Britain embassy and consulate  - Kęstučio str. 29 
(building not survived)
Finnish consulate - Kęstučio str.8
German embassy - Gedimino str. 19 (building not survived)
Danish embassy - Vytauto 55/Griunvaldo 2 
(building not survived)
Latvian embassy  - (not survived)  on the corner of Vytauto/Kęstučio str.
Italian representative - Vydūno alee 13
Japanese consulate - Vaižganto 30

French embassy - Putvinskio str. 14 (1927-1932), Laisvės av. 9-3 (1933-1940)

German consul's residence building - Perkūno al.4
Dutch consulate (until 1928) - Laisvės al. 42, Griunvaldo 16 (until 1939), Laisvės av. 29 (1940)
Spanish vice-consulate - Karmelitų str. 22
Argentine consulate (1929-1937) Laisvės av. 9, Putvinskio str. 42 (1938-1939). Putvinskio str. 60 (1940)
Soviet Union embassy  - Laisvės av. 8
Switzerland consulate - K. Donelaičio 45

Austrian consulate - Laisvės av. 90
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​More information about former embassies and  diplomatic Kaunas on www.diplomatiniskaunas.lt (in Lithuanian, use google translator)
The buildings of former embassies and consulates:

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