Lithuanian rural landscape change trends and consequences after the restoration of the independence

Abstract

Within a few centuries, Lithuania has gone through many land reforms. All these periods formed different anthropogenic elements in the natural environment of Lithuanian rural landscape, which gradually made changes in the people's way of thinking, living and working conditions. This article analyses the last periodes of land reforms, which had the largest influence on Lithuanian rural landscape changes. During the Soviet period in Lithuania territory dominated kolkhozes - Soviet agricultural companies, which were based on the idea of collective farming. Creation of large industrial farms in a rural, mostly natural environment, has made major changes. After the restoration of Lithuania's independence, farming conditions changed. Large complexes of the collective farms were replaced by private complexes, which took on the architectural expression with individual elements, having a different impact on the rural landscape.