The history of Lithuanian rural communities is complicated. It depends on certain political, cultural and economical conditions. Much harm for development of communities was done by the World WAR II and a long occupation. When the independence of the Republic of Lithuania was proclaimed in 1990, the problem of the development of rural communities became very actual. Now it has a direct reference to the main problems of our country – strengthening the democracy, forming civil society, developing of municipalities, intergrating into the EU, raising and bringing up cultural, educational and economical well-being of rural residents in Lithuania. Lithuanian government gives much attention to the restoration and strengthening of the rural communities (new laws, decisions and programmes are adopted ). There is no doubt, that the rural communities and other hon governmental organizations ( NGO ) ought to join the process of quick development themselves. Much help to Lithuania is gives by the EU, Scandinavian and other foreigh countries. On 2004 the first Lithuanian investigatios of the genesis of rural communities on peoples’ needs for them in the regions of Utena and Vilkaviškis were carried out. However, there are not many new actual empiric knowledge on which we may rely while solving the most important problems of the rural neighbourhoods. In 2006 a research in Leliūnai rural Neighbourhood community was carried out. The task of the research was to find out the people’s... [to full text]