Skaistgiriai ('bright woods') is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 239 people. It is located from Josvainiai, by the Aluona river and its tributary the Sakuona, surrounded by the Pernarava-Šaravai Forest. There are library, forestry and former school in Skaistgiriai.
History
During the Lithuanian Land Reform of the 1920s, the former Šaravai estate (previously belonging to Benediktas Tiškevičius) was partitioned, starting in 1923. In January 1926, the Land Reform Board issued Resolution No. 2989, which officially renamed the settlement from Šaravai manor to Skaisgiriai village (later spelled Skaistgiriai), following a proposal from the local municipality. Resolution of the Land Reform Board No. 2989 (January 1926). Lithuanian Central State Archive, f. 1248, inv. 9, file 861, p. 208.
During the Soviet era it was a center of the "New Life" kolkhoz.
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