Utena


Utena

 

a city and administrative center of Utena Raion, Lithuanian SSR. Located on the Leningrad-Kaliningrad Highway, 103 km northeast of Vilnius. Utena has a railroad station on the Panevéžys-Švenčionliai line. Industrial enterprises include an association for the production of knitwear and haberdashery, a plant specializing in the manufacture of electric furnaces for laboratories, a brewery, and a meat-packing plant. Enterprises under construction as of 1977 included a plant for the production of powdered milk. Utena has a museum of local lore.