Pilotiškės
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54.552°N 23.714°E / 54.552; 23.714
Pilotiškės is a village in Prienai District Municipality, Kaunas County, Lithuania.
In 2001 its population was 44.[1] In 2021 it dropped to 17.[2]
The village is best known as the birthplace of Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas, Lithuanian poet and writer, [3] and there is Putinas's house museum in his birth home.[4]
The mound Krušakalnis by the village was described in Putinas's novel Altorių šešėly [lt] (In the Shadow of the Altars) under the name Aušrakalnis,[3] and the mound has become known as Aušrakalnis since then.[5]