Dūkštas

Dūkštas
City
Church of Dūkštas
Coat of arms
Dūkštas Location of Dūkštas
Coordinates: 55°31′20″N 26°19′10″E / 55.52222°N 26.31944°E / 55.52222; 26.31944
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Aukštaitija
County	Utena County
Municipality	Ignalina district municipality
Eldership	Dūkštas eldership
Capital of	Dūkštas eldership
First mentioned	1862
Granted city rights	1956
Population  (2021)
• Total	729
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Dūkštas (pronunciation^ⓘ; Polish: Dukszty) is a city in eastern Lithuania, 26 km (16 mi) north from Ignalina, on the bank of Lake Dūkštas.^[1]

• Charles Rappoport (1865–1941), militant communist politician, journalist and writer, who lived most of his life in a France
• Jerzy Turonek (1929 – 2019) was a Polish-Belarusian historian.^[2]

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