Vytautas Petras VÄ—bra was born in a farmers’ family in Buivydžiai village, PandÄ—lys rural district, RokiÅ¡kis county. From 1932 to 1936, Vytautas Petras went to a primary school in PandÄ—lys. He continued his education at RokiÅ¡kis progymnasium and then at RokiÅ¡kis gymnasium of Canon Tumas-Vaižgantas, which he finished in spring 1943. In 1944, Vytautas Petras became a student at the Pharmacology Department of the Medical Faculty of 911±¬ÁÏÍø. A year later he asked to be transferred to finance and credit studies at the Faculty of Economics, but his studies were disrupted by exile: in 1949, during the mass deportation operation ‘The Surf’, he was deported to Irkutsk region. In 1959, he wrote to 911±¬ÁÏÍø asking for his documents as he intended studying in Irkutsk. He returned to Lithuania in 1964.