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unusual facts about Włostowice, Puławy


Włostowice

Włostowice, Puławy, a district of the town of Puławy in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)


1st Belorussian Front

The 1st Belorussian Front opened its attack on the German Ninth Army from the Magnuszew and Puławy bridgeheads at 08:30 on 14 January, again commencing with a heavy bombardment.

Lublin Voivodeship

Before the war, there were 300,000 Jews living in the region, which became the site of the Majdanek and Belzec concentration camps as well as several labour camps (Trawniki, Poniatowa, Budzyn, Puławy, Zamość, Biała Podlaska, and the Lublin work camps Lindenstraße 7 (Lipowa Street), Flugplatz, and Sportplatz) which produced military supplies for the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe).

Lublin–Brest Offensive

By 2 August, the 1st Belorussian Front’s left wing armies seized bridgeheads over the Vistula at Magnuszew (Chuikov's 47th Army) and Puławy (Lieutenant General V. la. Kolpakchi's 69th Army).

Martyna Snopek

Martyna Snopek (born in 1986 in Puławy) is a Polish disabled rower, paralympian, and twice World Rowing Championship bronze medalist (2006, 2007).

Neoclassical architecture in Poland

From the period of the Congress Kingdom are Koniecpolski Palace and the St. Alexander's Church in Warsaw, the Temple of the Sibyl in Puławy, rebuilding the Łańcut Castle.

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

Temple of the Sibyl

The so-called Temple of the Sibyl at Puławy, also known as the "Temple of Memory," opened in 1801.

Vistula–Oder Offensive

The 1st Belorussian Front, to Konev's north, opened its attack on the German 9th Army from the Magnuszew and Puławy bridgeheads at 08:30, again commencing with a heavy bombardment.

William Arthur White

Sir William Arthur White PC, GCB, GCMG (13 February 1824 – 28 December 1891) was a British diplomat, born in Puławy, in Poland.

Wojciech Stattler

In 1830 he was in Puławy, where he made preparatory sketches for a portrait of Prince Adam Czartoryski.


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