Pagiriai | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Pagiriai |
Coordinates: | 54.5831°N 25.1919°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Lithuania |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Vilnius County |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Vilnius District Municipality |
Subdivision Type4: | Eldership |
Subdivision Name4: | Pagiriai Eldership |
Subdivision Type6: | Capital of |
Subdivision Name6: | Pagiriai Eldership |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Population Total: | 3,324 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Pagiriai is a village in Vilnius District Municipality, Lithuania, it is located less than 1km (01miles) south of Vilnius city administrative border. According to the 2021 census, it had population of 3,324, a decrease from 3,451[1] in 2011 and from 3,929 in 2001.
Kazaklar and Karnaklar – two Lithuanian Tatar villages before World War II – were merged and renamed Pagiriai after the war[2] (see Keturiasdešimt Totorių for the history of Tatars of Pagiriai eldership). In 1970, the largest greenhouse complex in the Baltic states was established and multi-flat housing for its workers was built during 1970–1990. As a result, the number of inhabitants of the village grew from 251 in 1970 to 3,776 in 1989.[3]
Pagiriai is a center of Pagiriai eldership, which covers an area of . There are 25 settlements in the eldership. According to the census of 2011, there were 7,341 inhabitants in the Pagiriai elderate. The ethnographic composition of the eldership is very diverse. According to the census of 2011, there were 37.1% Lithuanians, 44.8% – Poles, 8.6% – Russians in 2011. Belarusians, Ukrainians, Lithuanian Tatars and others constituted the rest 9.5% of the population. The largest villages of the elderate were Pagiriai, Vaidotai (1,387) and Keturiasdešimt Totorių (451).[4] The newest census of 2021 showed, that in Pagiriai eldership with a total population of 7,147, 2818 inhabitants (39,4%) were Lithuanians, 3031 (42,4%) were Poles, 556 (7.8%) – Russians, 282 (3,9%) – Belarusians, 64 (0,9%) – Ukrainians and 386 (5,4%) other peoples.