Kałuszyn is a
village
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in the administrative district of
Gmina Wieliszew
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Gmina Wieliszew is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Legionowo County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Wieliszew, which lies approximately north-east of Legionowo and north of Warsaw.
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, within
Legionowo County
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Legionowo County ( pl, powiat legionowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government ...
,
Masovian Voivodeship
The Masovian Voivodeship, also known as the Mazovia Province ( pl, województwo mazowieckie ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, with its capital located in the city of Warsaw, which also serves as the capital of the country. The ...
, in east-central Poland.
It lies approximately west of
Wieliszew
Wieliszew is a village in Legionowo County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland, in the bifurcation of the Vistula and Narew Rivers. It is the seat of the gmina (''commune'' or ''municipality'' as administrative district) called Gmina ...
, north-west of
Legionowo
Legionowo is a city in Masovia ( pl, Mazowsze), east-central Poland.
Location
Legionowo is located to the north-east of the center of Warsaw and only to the south of Zegrze Reservoir ( or ), near the Warsaw-Gdańsk railroad and Warsaw-Suwał ...
, and north of
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
. In 2011 it had a population of 443 people.
History
During
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
the village was liberated on January 15, 1945 by the
soviet 47th army after a successful battle against the troops of the
german army
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which earned
military decorations
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for soviet soldiers Vasilij Semynin, Grigorij Sandulyak, Grigorij Čurakov, Timofej Ciabanu, Grigorij Dzjuba, Nikolaj Isaev, Kuz’ma Tatarov and Aleksandr Shabljugin.
References
Villages in Legionowo County
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