Visaginas. Center of National Cultures. Butterfly.

The shape of the city is meant to have looked like a butterfly, to symbolize the diversity and optimism that can be found there. But the third reactor was never built and the idea of finishing the butterfly is left for future generations.
Although the city has only two butterfly wings, people still do not lose their optimism and hope they will find a way to struggle through the hard times ahead and take advantage of the beautiful natural surroundings.

Shaped like a butterfly from above.

The half butterfly.

Visaginas itself is a unique city. Not only it is among the youngest in Lithuania, it is also the most diverse and multicultural one 's almost 50 different ethnic backgrounds and nationalities, ranging from Germans and Russians to Tatars and Uzbeks, form the face of the 29,000-strong city. This is the only place in the country where Lithuanians have ethnic minority status.
Center of National Cultures gathers them all together and it is the center of the preservation of national traditions of each group.
Center of National Cultures has classes where children learn the culture of different peoples, languages, history, engaged in ethnographic teams, learn folk arts and crafts.