Life in Poland. Bieszczady National Park

April 20th, 2016 , 08:43 pm

The press secretary of the city mayor said that Rzeszow was liberated by the Red Army, and history still cannot be changed by demolishing monuments.

KALININGRAD, April 19 – RIA Novosti. The mayor's office of the Polish city of Rzeszow refused to support the initiative of the European Center for the Prosecution of Communist and Fascist Criminals to demolish a Soviet monument in the city, the Polish cultural center in Kaliningrad reported, citing the press secretary of the mayor of Rzeszow Maciej Chlodnicki.

"Monuments do not need to be demolished. By demolishing a monument, we will not change history... Who liberated Rzeszow? The Red Army. This historical fact. Of course, what happened next is a completely different matter. But the fact is the fact, the Red Army liberated us. Millions of young people who were not at all interested in politics died,” Khlodnitsky said.

"Political propaganda". Rzeszow, Poland.Monument of gratitude to the soldiers of the Soviet Army (Pomnik wdzięczności Armii Radzieckiej). It is interesting that high-quality images of this monument are found with great difficulty in both Yandex and Google. Until I indicated its Polish name in the request, I could not find a high-quality photograph. By the way, the monument is not mentioned on the officialwebsite city of Rzeszow. However, in fact it stands and will stand.

Earlier, the President of the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland, Lukasz Kaminski, announced plans to demolish more than 500 monuments of gratitude Soviet army. The plans of the Institute refer to monuments erected in in public places. Memorials under which the remains of the dead are buried Soviet soldiers, will not be destroyed. The Polish state also intends to protect the cemeteries where Soviet soldiers are buried in the future.

The topic returned again due to a statement by the director of the Sub-Carpathian branch of the European Center for the Prosecution of Communist and Fascist Criminals, Wladimir Nowak, that, in his opinion, the monument in Rzeszow should be razed to the ground. However, a recent survey of Rzeszow residents showed that about 90% of them cannot imagine the Revolutionary monument disappearing from the city’s landscape.

"Political propaganda". Taking into account the region with which the Podkarpackie Voivodeship of Poland neighbors (the center of which is Rzeszow), we can say that it is this region of the People's Republic of Poland that receives a significant, if not the majority, number of Ukrainian migrant workers. And, perhaps, the initiative of the Rzeszow mayor’s office is another indication to the Ukrainians that the Poles of Rzeszow and the Galicians have nothing particularly in common. Even the attitude towards history.

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Residents and the mayor's office of Rzeszow refused to dismantle
monument to soldiers of the Red Army
April 20, 2016, 05:46

However, against the backdrop of all these obscurantist statements by the Polish leadership regarding Russia, one grain of positivity associated with Poland still appeared. Head of Administration Polish Rzeszow(the center of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship) - a city with a population of 170 thousand - decided to actually go against the generally accepted Polish practice of today. Tadeusz Ferenc (that’s the name of the mayor), to whom the Central Committee came down “from above” regarding the need to dismantle the monuments Soviet soldiers-liberators, decided not to drive the horses, but to ask about the opinion of not official Warsaw or bureaucrats in Brussels, but the opinion of ordinary citizens.

It would seem, what’s wrong with this - the mayor decided to ask the city residents about their attitude to history. But the whole point is that for modern Poland this amounts to, if not an administrative feat, then at least a strong-willed decision. And that's a fact. Indeed, in Poland, which positions itself as a democratic state, real democracy has long given up in order to satisfy the demands of those who today declare their literal benefit to the Polish state.

So... Tadeusz Ferenc, together with his colleagues at the mayor's office, as reported by the Polish newspaper Vedomosti, organized a citywide survey regarding the “recommendation” of the so-called European Center for the Prosecution of Communist and Fascist Criminals (ECPPC - a Polish NGO). The ECPPC's recommendation was that all monuments remaining from Soviet times in the city should be destroyed. Allegedly, these monuments are reminders of the “crimes of the Soviet regime.” First of all, it was about the demolition of the monument erected in honor of the soldiers of the Red Army.

But the aforementioned Center must have bitten all its fists and even its elbows, having learned that about 90% of all citizens who took part in the vote spoke out against the dismantling of the historical monument.

The Polish portal Vedomosti cites a fragment of a statement on this matter made by the press secretary of the mayor's office of the Polish Rzeszow:
Why demolish monuments? If we tear down this monument, we will not change history. Who liberated our city? Red Army! And this is a historical fact.

Head of Rzeszow Tadeusz Ferenc

As a result, the city authorities of Rzeszow, demonstrating character and a desire to listen to the opinions of their own people, refused to comply with orders from an organization that actively feeds on Western grants and is engaged in attempts at outright self-PR.

It should be noted here that the refusal of the Rzeszow authorities to dismantle the monument to Red Army soldiers is by no means an ordinary moment for Poland. Considering that some time ago representatives working in Polish state The Institute of National Remembrance announced “the need to dismantle at least 500 monuments to Soviet soldiers,” then the Rzeszow decision could become a precedent.

By and large, the administration of the Polish city could easily swim in the stream of Russophobic slop central authorities, earning themselves a pat on the back from official Warsaw, but the Rzeszow residents demonstrated dignity. And for this, each of those who voted against the wars with the “mills” (against the demolition of the monument to the soldiers of the Red Army) and separately the representatives of the city mayor’s office would like to shake hands. This suggests that there are people in Poland who still have what is commonly called respect for historical memory, which means that not everything in our bilateral relations is lost.

A separate question: will official Warsaw and all sorts of dirty tricks from among the Russophobic NGOs allow the Rzeszow residents, by their decision, to take and break their sacred vessel - the cup from which they draw all their inspiration? After all, there wouldn't be Soviet monuments and the socialist period in the history of Poland - where would all these specialists from all kinds of foundations, centers and committees be today? And now, presumably, the dirty tricks from NGOs will begin to promote the idea that (by a well-known analogy today) the results of the city survey (referendum) were “only advisory in nature”, and that Mayor Ferenc was “wrong”...

The only trouble for foundations, centers and committees is that the mayor of Rzeszow is a man who has enjoyed the constant support of the townspeople since 2002. He came first in the city mayoral elections four times! - in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014. In the 2014 elections, two-thirds of voters voted for Tadeusz Ferenc. Polish presidents changed, but Ferenc remained in his place with the support of the residents of his city. And today Ferenc has such support, and therefore the mayor considered that the opinion of his supporters is much more important to him than the opinion of those who are ready to sacrifice historical memory and historical respect for the sake of their momentary selfish interests.

For reference: until the 14th century, Rzeszow bore the name Ryashev (in fact, “Rzeszow” is the Polish translation of this name - Rzeszów) and was an ancient Russian settlement, which first became part of the Principality of Przemysl, and then was captured by Poland.

Today Rzeszow is one of the few Polish cities where the Russian language department continues to operate at the university.

"Political Propaganda". Well, for reference - information from Wikipedia:

In Rzeszow there are two theaters and a museum. Higher educational establishments(including the university - since 2001). Among the subjects of training for university students (Department of Russian Language), Russian is a foreign language, and Polish students studying it undergo an annual student exchange internship at the department intercultural communication Faculty of Philology of the Russian State pedagogical university them. A. I. Herzen in St. Petersburg, and students of the St. Petersburg department undergo teaching practice incl. in Rzeszow and accept Rzeszow students in St. Petersburg, providing them in-depth study Russian language and cultural program. The University of Rzeszow, among others, also holds conferences on Russian studies at the specialized department of Russian philology.

"Political Propaganda". It turns out that in Rzeszow, even in its infancy, that spirit of Galician Rus is still glimmering, that very “Muscovphilism” that all the agents of the Austro-Hungarian and German intelligence and general staffs in XIX-XX centuries like all sorts of Grushevskys, Sheptytskys and company? After all, even administratively Rzeszow was in the same voivodeship with Lviv (I quote:"from December 23, 1920 to December 4, 1939 in the Lviv Voivodeship of the Polish Republic. Center of the Rzeszow County") and therefore could have been subject to all the de-Russification and de-Sovietization of the region over the past 150 years.

Useful information for tourists about Rzeszow in Poland - geographical position, tourist infrastructure, map, architectural features and attractions.

Rzeszow – southeastern Polish city, whose population of 170 thousand provided it with powiat rights. Connecting with its buildings both banks of the Sana tributary - the Wislok River - for more than seven hundred years it has inherited the history of its predecessor, which was the ancient Russian settlement of Ryashev. The ruins of an ancient settlement, still visible on the left bank of the Wisłoka, diversify the later architecture of the inner-city territory of Rzeszów.

Excavations have revealed signs of fortification, which, apparently, was the city in the XII - XIII centuries. This version is confirmed by swords, knives, and the remains of an earthen rampart found by archaeologists. The livability of the settlement is evidenced by the discovered log dwellings of the same period, among which frequent finds are fragments of glass bracelets, slate whorls, and other attributes ancient life.

At that time, Old Russian Ryashev belonged to the Principality of Przemysl, but was captured by Poland in the 14th century. The invasion of the Polish rulers was inspired by the favorable location of the city, which was the crossing point of the most important trade routes in Europe. They led from the north, from the gray Baltic to the south, passing the Carpathian passes and from the west to the Black Sea shores, to the European east.

The new owners of the city were not satisfied with the purely economic attractiveness of their acquisition. Under Polish rule, the most famous masters of urban planning and art were invited to Rzeszow. As a result, only the then Warsaw surpassed the southeastern city in the achievements of Saxon art.

Returned to Poland after the expulsion of the Nazis, Rzeszow became a developed industrial centre. Household appliances and aircraft engine enterprises operate here, engines for modern car brands are successfully produced, and a technical porcelain factory operates here. Light industry is also developed here, and the food industry is represented by a meat processing plant and a fruit canning plant.

The main historical object, representing the pride of Rzeszow, is seen by the townspeople as the remains of the Lubomirski Castle. This building, which was originally a fortified house-estate, was turned into an example of defense-palace architecture by the princely family that acquired it. Subsequently, the dilapidation of the building caused by centuries prompted the city authorities in the period 1902 - 1906 to build the Rzeszow Castle on the site it occupied, which retained only the turrets of the bastions and the gates of the tower itself from its predecessor.

The Market Square, traditional for European cities of the Middle Ages, is also of interest. The age of the local town hall is already approaching six centuries!

The history of Rzeszow-Jasionki International Airport began in the years German occupation, when in 1940 a runway was built here, having a length of 1200 meters and a width of 40 meters. At the end of the war, in 1944, the German occupiers left the airport, which at that time was already completely destroyed. In the same year it was reconstructed and put into operation by the Russian Red Army.

Since then, the airport has been constantly modernized. The building area was expanded, the apron and taxiways were restored, and a huge Observation deck. Currently, Rzeszow-Jasionki Airport receives aircraft from the following airlines - LOT, Ryan Air and Lufthansa Cargo, to the destinations of London, Dublin, Birmingham, Frankfurt, New York and Warsaw.

The airport's technical base includes two passenger terminals and a large hangar. In the near future, there are plans to expand the runway and build a new passenger terminal, with a final capacity of approximately 1,440 people per hour.

Bieszczady National Park

National Park Bieszczady is a huge nature reserve in Poland, the country's third largest national park, part of the International biosphere reserve Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia "Eastern Carpathians". The park was founded on August 4, 1973.

The Bieszczady National Park is located in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland, near the border with Slovakia and Ukraine. The park is located in the Bieszczady Mountains, which are the western part of the Eastern Beskid Range. It includes two levels of mountain vegetation: lower subalpine and alpine meadows. It has several natural and paved roads that are used as hiking trails.

Bieszczady Park is a habitat for more than 230 species of animals, 58 species of mammals - bears, wolves, lynxes, wild cats, bison, deer, yaks. There are 140 species of nesting birds - golden eagles, lesser spotted eagles, short-tailed eagle, and honey beetle. There are more than 780 species of plants, 500 species of lichens, 250 species of mosses and 1000 species of fungi, of which 30 species are endemic to the entire Eastern Carpathians.

The most popular attractions in Rzeszow with descriptions and photographs for every taste. Choose best places for visiting famous places Rzeszow on our website.

On September 1, 1939, German troops attacked the Polish Republic, beginning the German-Polish War of 1939.

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It was Mikhail Ivanovich who got up and went into the office. But as soon as he left, the old prince, looking around restlessly, threw down his napkin and went off on his own.
“They don’t know how to do anything, they’ll confuse everything.”
While he walked, Princess Marya, Desalles, m lle Bourienne and even Nikolushka silently looked at each other. The old prince returned with a hasty step, accompanied by Mikhail Ivanovich, with a letter and a plan, which he, not allowing anyone to read during dinner, placed next to him.
Going into the living room, he handed the letter to Princess Marya and, laying out the plan of the new building in front of him, which he fixed his eyes on, ordered her to read it aloud. After reading the letter, Princess Marya looked questioningly at her father.
He looked at the plan, obviously lost in thought.
- What do you think about this, prince? – Desalles allowed himself to ask a question.
- I! I!.. - the prince said, as if awakening unpleasantly, without taking his eyes off the construction plan.
- It is quite possible that the theater of war will come so close to us...
- Ha ha ha! Theater of War! - said the prince. “I said and say that the theater of war is Poland, and the enemy will never penetrate further than the Neman.
Desalles looked with surprise at the prince, who was talking about the Neman, when the enemy was already at the Dnieper; but Princess Marya, who had forgotten the geographical position of the Neman, thought that what her father said was true.
- When the snow melts, they will drown in the swamps of Poland. “They just can’t see,” said the prince, apparently thinking about the campaign of 1807, which seemed so recent. - Bennigsen should have entered Prussia earlier, things would have taken a different turn...
“But, prince,” Desalles said timidly, “the letter talks about Vitebsk...
“Ah, in the letter, yes...” the prince said dissatisfied, “yes... yes...” His face suddenly took on a gloomy expression. He paused. - Yes, he writes, the French are defeated, which river is this?
Desalles lowered his eyes.
“The prince doesn’t write anything about this,” he said quietly.
- Doesn’t he write? Well, I didn’t make it up myself. - Everyone was silent for a long time.
“Yes... yes... Well, Mikhaila Ivanovich,” he suddenly said, raising his head and pointing to the construction plan, “tell me how you want to remake it...”
Mikhail Ivanovich approached the plan, and the prince, after talking with him about the plan for the new building, looked angrily at Princess Marya and Desalles, and went home.
Princess Marya saw Desalles' embarrassed and surprised gaze fixed on her father, noticed his silence and was amazed that the father had forgotten his son's letter on the table in the living room; but she was afraid not only to speak and ask Desalles about the reason for his embarrassment and silence, but she was afraid to even think about it.
In the evening, Mikhail Ivanovich, sent from the prince, came to Princess Marya for a letter from Prince Andrei, which was forgotten in the living room. Princess Marya submitted the letter. Although it was unpleasant for her, she allowed herself to ask Mikhail Ivanovich what her father was doing.
“They’re all busy,” said Mikhail Ivanovich with a respectfully mocking smile that made Princess Marya turn pale. – They are very worried about the new building. “We read a little, and now,” said Mikhail Ivanovich, lowering his voice, “the bureau must have started working on the will.” (IN Lately One of the prince’s favorite pastimes was working on the papers that were to remain after his death and which he called his will.)
- Is Alpatych being sent to Smolensk? - asked Princess Marya.
- Why, he’s been waiting for a long time.
When Mikhail Ivanovich returned with the letter to the office, the prince, wearing glasses, with a lampshade over his eyes and a candle, was sitting at the open bureau, with papers in his far-off hand, and in a somewhat solemn pose, he was reading his papers (remarks, as he called them), which were to be delivered to the sovereign after his death.
When Mikhail Ivanovich entered, there were tears in his eyes, memories of the time when he wrote what he was now reading. He took the letter from Mikhail Ivanovich’s hands, put it in his pocket, put away the papers and called Alpatych, who had been waiting for a long time.
On a piece of paper he wrote down what was needed in Smolensk, and he, walking around the room past Alpatych, who was waiting at the door, began to give orders.
- First, postal paper, do you hear, eight hundred, according to the sample; gold-edged... a sample, so that it will certainly be according to it; varnish, sealing wax - according to a note from Mikhail Ivanovich.
He walked around the room and looked at the memo.
“Then personally give the governor a letter about the recording.
Then they needed bolts for the doors of the new building, certainly of the style that the prince himself had invented. Then a binding box had to be ordered for storing the will.
Giving orders to Alpatych lasted more than two hours. The prince still did not let him go. He sat down, thought and, closing his eyes, dozed off. Alpatych stirred.
- Well, go, go; If you need anything, I will send it.
Alpatych left. The prince went back to the bureau, looked into it, touched his papers with his hand, locked it again and sat down at the table to write a letter to the governor.
It was already late when he stood up, sealing the letter. He wanted to sleep, but he knew that he would not fall asleep and that his worst thoughts came to him in bed. He called Tikhon and went with him through the rooms to tell him where to make his bed that night. He walked around, trying on every corner.
Everywhere he felt bad, but the worst thing was the familiar sofa in the office. This sofa was scary to him, probably because of the heavy thoughts that he changed his mind while lying on it. Nowhere was good, but the best place of all was the corner in the sofa behind the piano: he had never slept here before.

Rzeszow is a city in southeastern Poland. Located on the Wisloka River (tributary of the San). Population 171,227 people (2010). Area 68 km²

Just a week ago we were in this amazing town. This is a fabulous city. It is distinguished by its neatness, cleanliness, beauty and originality. Even though it’s not big, once you come to this city, you don’t want to leave.

We were traveling from Krakow. Rzeszow is a popular city for locals to relax. Therefore, tickets must be booked in advance. We, relying on luck that we would buy tickets for the bus on the spot (as is usually done among the Poles), were upset, since all the tickets had been purchased, but next bus wait more than 2 hours. So we went by train. Even though we traveled with a transfer and took about 5 hours (instead of 2.5 by bus), we were still satisfied. Ticket price for two is 34 zlotys. Bus fare: PLN 50 (1 ticket)

We book all hotels (wherever we go) on booking.com

There we found suitable number, clean and cozy. Its cost is 100 zlotys per day (this is quite an adequate price for a room).

Address: Warneńczyka 85 a (www.warnenczyka85a.pl) +48 660 - 789 - 764

It is located 20 minutes from the center.

In Rzeszow itself, although there are not many attractions, each place is special.

The most impressive was the Town Hall, which is located in the center

It's much more beautiful live, of course.

There are tables on both sides of the Town Hall (they are usually full). The tables belong to the pub. The whole area is very well maintained and clean.

But if you go around the Town Hall, you can stumble upon the government house, the lights are shining in the windows different colors.

Here, just a stone's throw away, is the Rzeszow Local History Museum.

The main building of the museum is located on 3 May Street, 19. Currently, the museum’s collection contains about 24 thousand exhibits.

What impressed me the most was the fountain. This fountain will not leave anyone indifferent. We just got to the show. We arrived at 8 pm and could not go anywhere further. The spectacle is incredible. The kids are running and frolicking in the fountain. The fountain itself shimmers in different colors. Insanely pleasant, relaxing music plays in the background. Overall, very impressive.

This is what the Rzeszow Bank looks like:

I was very impressed by the famous 3 May Street. It is famous for the fact that it is the main pedestrian artery - 3 May Street. In its northern part there is a Gothic church. Along the street there are charming houses of the 17th-18th centuries - neat and well-groomed.

As a conclusion, I can say that this is a truly fabulous city.