Pasvalys

• Name — Pasvalys • Settlement Type — City • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Lithuania • Subdivision Type1 — Ethnographic region • Subdivision Name1 — Aukštaitija • Subdivision Type2 — County • Subdivision Name2 — Panevėžys County • Subdivision Type3 — Municipality • Subdivision Name3 — Pasvalys district municipality • Subdivision Type4 — Eldership • Subdivision Name4 — Pasvalys city eldership • Subdivision Type6 — Capital of • Subdivision Name6 — Pasvalys district municipality Pasvalys city eldership Pasvalys rural eldership • Established Date — 1497 • Established Title — First mentioned • Established Date2 — 1946 • Established Title2 — Granted city rights • Population Total — 6,411 • Population As Of — 2023 • Timezone — EET • Utc Offset — +2 • Timezone Dst — EEST • Utc Offset Dst — +3 • Website — www.pasvalys.lt

In 1557, the Treaty of Pasvalys was signed in the town, which provoked Ivan IV of Russia to start the Livonian War. Pasvalys has mineral spring waters – in 1923 physician K. Armonas created a small sanatorium. At this time about 200 people spent time in sanatorium yearly. Soviet occupation and mass deportations in 1941 were devastating – most of the most active teachers and civil servants, intellectuals were deported to remote regions in Russia and Central Asia. In August 1941, 1349 Jews from the village and the surroundings were executed by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and local collaborators as mentioned in the Jäger Report. After 1944 Soviet mass deportations started again – the main target were farmers and their families. Hundreds of families were deported. The program of forced collectivization has started. Since 1947 partisans of Pasvalys district fought against Soviet occupants. Pasvalys' partisans belonged to Algimantas military district (apygarda), later – to Vytis military district of the Lithuanian partisans. Most of the partisans operated in Žalioji rinktinė (The Green Squad), which was based in Žalioji giria (The Green Forest).

Pasvalys Gymnasium of Petras Vileišis Pasvalys Gymnasium of Svalia Lėvens primary school

Pasvalys is famous for its farmhouse beer and is a part of Beer Route in Lithuania. Cheese factory owned by the company Pieno Žvaigždės is located in the city.

Pasvalys has its basketball club (which is now defunct)- BC Pieno žvaigždės. It also has two football clubs- SK Sanžile (defunct) and FK Pasvalys who play in the 4th tier of Lithuanian football.

Pasvalys Mill Museum Museum of the Region of Pasvalys

• Illustration — Treaty of Pasvalys, signed between Polish-Lithuanian King Žygimantas Augustas and the Livonian Order • Illustration — Pinewood and stadium • Illustration — Pasvalys stadium • Illustration — Church of St. John the Baptist in Pasvalys • Illustration — Pasvalys in winter • Illustration — The Green Spring in Pasvalys • Illustration — Folk ensemble Rags

Pasvalys is twinned with: • Żory in Poland