Puławy (, also written Pulawy) is a city in eastern

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

, in

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's Lublin Voivodeship, at the confluence of the

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and Kurówka Rivers. Puławy is the capital of

Puławy County __NOTOC__ Puławy County ( pl, powiat puławski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was first established in 1867, but its current borders were established on January 1 ...

. The city's 2019 population was

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at 47,417. Its coat of arms is the Pahonia. Puławy was first mentioned in documents of the 15th century. At that time it was spelled ''Pollavy'', its name probably coming from a Vistula River ford located nearby. The town is a local center of science, industry and tourism, together with nearby Nałęczów and Kazimierz Dolny. Puławy is home to Poland's first permanent museum and is a Vistula River port. The town has two bridges and four rail stations, and serves as a road junction. Nearby Dęblin has a military airport.

Location and transport

Puławy lies in the western part of Lublin Voivodeship, at the edge of the picturesque Lesser Polish Gorge of the Vistula, and near the easternmost point of the

river. Historically the town belongs to

, and geographically, it lies at the border of

Mazovian Lowland The Mazovian Lowland ( pl, Nizina Mazowiecka), also known as the Masovian Plain, is the largest geographical region in central Poland, roughly covering the historical region of Masovia. Sometimes it is also categorized as including Mazovian-Podlasi ...

and

Lublin Upland Lublin Upland () is a geographical region in southeastern Poland, located in Lublin Voivodeship, between the rivers Vistula and Bug, around the city of Lublin. Its area is about 7,200 km² and its highest elevation 314 m above sea level. It ...

. The area of the town is . Puławy is located on Polish Expressway S12 (highway), and the intersection of the S17 and S12 highways is located nearby, east of the city. Furthermore, the town has four rail stations (''Puławy, Puławy Azoty, Puławy Chemia'' and ''Puławy Miasto''). Long-distance rail transport is served by the ''Puławy Miasto'' station, with connections to all Polish cities.

History

The history of Puławy dates back to the 15th century when a settlement near a Vistula river ford was established. In the late 17th century it emerged as the location of a rural residence of the

Lubomirski The House of Lubomirski is a Princely Houses of Poland, Polish princely family. The Lubomirski family's coat of arms is the Drużyna coat of arms, which is similar to the Szreniawa coat of arms but without a cross. Origin and the coat o ...

and the

Sieniawski Sieniawski is a Polish surname, it may refer to: *Adam Hieronim Sieniawski (1576–1616), Polish–Lithuanian noble * Adam Hieronim Sieniawski (1623–1650), Polish noble, starost of Lwów since 1648, Field Clerk of the Crown since 1649 * Adam Mi ...

noble families and in 1676–1679, Prince Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski built a summer palace, now known as the Pałac Czartoryskich or the Czartoryskich Palace. In 1687, Lubomirski's daughter Elżbieta (who was called the uncrowned ''Queen of Poland''), married

Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski (1666–1726) was a Polish nobleman, aristocrat and military leader. He was the son of Hetman Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski and Cecylia Maria Radziwiłł, daughter of Court and Grand Marshal Prince Aleksander Ludwik ...

, bringing Puławy her

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. In 1706, during the

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, the settlement together with the castle were destroyed by Swedish soldiers as Elżbieta was a supporter of King

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In 1731, Maria Zofia Sieniawska (the daughter of Elżbieta and Adam Sieniawski), married

August Aleksander Czartoryski Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski (9 November 1697, Warsaw4 April 1782, Warsaw) was a member of the Polish nobility (), magnate. He is the founder of the Czartoryski family fortune. Life August became major-general of the Polish Army in 1729 ...

. As a result, Puławy remained in the hands of the Czartoryski family for the next 100 years. The settlement prospered, and in 1784 it became the property of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and his wife

Izabela Czartoryska Elżbieta "Izabela" Dorota Czartoryska (''née'' Flemming; 3 March 1746 – 15 July 1835) was a Polish princess, writer, art collector, and prominent figure in the Polish Enlightenment. She was the wife of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and a ...

, ''née'' Fleming. Under their stewardship, and after the loss of Poland's independence in 1795 (see

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) the palace became a museum of Polish national memorabilia and a major cultural and political centre. In 1784 Adam and Izabela moved permanently into the palace, and soon afterwards Puławy became known as ''Polish

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''. All major cultural figures of the late 18th century Poland visited the palace. Among them were

Grzegorz Piramowicz Grzegorz Piramowicz (''Grigor Pirumyan'') (25 November 1735 in Lwów – 14 November 1801 in Międzyrzec Podlaski) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, educator, writer, and philosopher of Armenians, Armenian origin. He was a member of the Commiss ...

, Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Adam Naruszewicz, Jan Paweł Woronicz,

Franciszek Karpiński Franciszek Karpiński (4 October 1741 – 16 September 1825) was the leading sentimental Polish poet of the Age of Enlightenment. He is particularly remembered for his religious works later rendered as hymns and carols. He is also considered o ...

Franciszek Zabłocki Franciszek Zabłocki (2 January 1754, Volhynia – 10 September 1821, Końskowola), is considered the most distinguished Polish comic dramatist and satirist of the Enlightenment period. He descends from an old aristocratic family of Poland with ...

, Jan Piotr Norblin, Marcello Bacciarelli. In 1794, during the

Kościuszko Uprising The Kościuszko Uprising, also known as the Polish Uprising of 1794 and the Second Polish War, was an uprising against the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the P ...

, Puławy was plundered and burned by the Russians as punishment for the Czartoryski family's support of the rebels. The reconstruction of the palace was initiated in 1796 by Princess Izabela who employed the renowned architect Chrystian Piotr Aigner. In 1801, the Princess opened the first museum in Poland in the Temple of the Sibyl in Puławy. IzabelaCzartoryska1831

The end of Puławy's ''Golden Age'' was marked by the

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(1830–31), when after its suppression, the estate was taken over by the Russian government. The museum collections that were saved later became the nucleus of the present

Czartoryski Museum The Princes Czartoryski Museum ( pl, Muzeum Książąt Czartoryskich ) – often abbreviated to Czartoryski Museum – is a historic museum in Kraków, Poland, and one of the country's oldest museums. The initial collection was formed in 1796 i ...

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula, Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland un ...

. In the 1830s, the Czartoryski family was forced to leave Russian-controlled

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(see

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), and Puławy was reduced into a small, provincial village. In 1842, to further erase traces of Polish culture, the Russians renamed Puławy to ''Nowa Aleksandria''. In 1869, an Agricultural and Forestry Institute was founded here. One of its first students was the future Polish writer Bolesław Prus (who had also spent part of his early childhood in Puławy). Prus would set his 1884 micro-story, "

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," at the '' Temple of the Sibyl''.

20th century

Puławy received its town charter in 1906. In 1915, it was seized by the Austro-Hungarian Army, which remained until November 1918. On 13 August 1920, Józef Piłsudski, Poland's Chief of State, left

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, and established a military headquarters in Puławy. The

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Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian language, Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist R ...

held most of eastern Poland and was besieging Warsaw, (see

Polish–Soviet War The Polish–Soviet War (Polish–Bolshevik War, Polish–Soviet War, Polish–Russian War 1919–1921) * russian: Советско-польская война (''Sovetsko-polskaya voyna'', Soviet-Polish War), Польский фронт (' ...

). Piłsudski's radio-monitoring, cryptological and intelligence services detected a gap in the Soviet flanks in the Puławy region, and he ordered a concentration of Polish forces in the surrounding area around the

Wieprz River The Wieprz (, ; ua, Вепр, Vepr) is a river in central-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Vistula. It is the country's ninth longest river, with a total length of 349 km and a catchment area of 10,497 km2, all within Poland. Its cour ...

. On 18 August 1920, the Polish Army launched a

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from Puławy that encircled and defeated a 177,000-strong Soviet force. The attack drove the Red Army from Poland and established Poland's security for two decades, until the German invasion of 1939. In the

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of the First World ...

, Puławy began a slow process of modernization. In 1934, the town significantly grew in size, after several local villages merged with it. Furthermore, in the late 1930s Puławy took advantage of the Central Industrial Area. POL Puławy Pomnik Poległych i Pomordowanych 03

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In September 1939, during the joint German-Soviet

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, which started

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, Puławy was seized by the

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, and afterwards was occupied by Germany. Three German concentration camps operated around Puławy. In 1940 the Germans carried out mass arrests of local Polish

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, which was then imprisoned in Lublin, and then often deported to concentration camps or murdered in Rury, Lublin. During the occupation, Polish poet

Krystyna Krahelska Krystyna Krahelska "Danuta" (24 March 1914 – 2 August 1944) was a Polish poet, ethnographer, member of the Home Army, and a participant in the Warsaw Uprising. Life She was born in a family estate in Mazurki near Baranovichi in the Russian ...

lived in the city from 1940 to 1942 and was part of the Polish underground resistance movement. She is best known as the author of the most popular song of the Polish resistance movement (''Hej chłopcy, bagnet na broń''), which she premiered in 1943 in

, where she was killed in the

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...

in 1944. The town's

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population of some 3,600 was first confined to a

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, then murdered at the Sobibór camp. The Jewish population ceased to exist and was never reconstituted. The town remained under German occupation until July 25, 1944, when it was freed by the

Home Army The Home Army ( pl, Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK; ) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) es ...

, as well as the

. A year later, on April 24, 1945, a local unit of the anti-Communist organization Freedom and Independence under Marian Bernaciak captured the local office of Communist secret services temporarily. The postwar history of Puławy has been dominated by the 1960 decision of the government of

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to build a large chemical plant north of the town ( Zakłady Azotowe Puławy). It was opened in 1966 and produced

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. As a result, in the 1960s and 1970s Pulawy quickly grew in size, with new districts built for the influx of workers. Recently the plant has become the world's largest producer of melamine. In 1980 and 1981, ''Zakłady Azotowe Puławy'' was one of the largest centers of the

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movement in the Lublin Region. After the declaration of Martial law in Poland (December 13, 1981), strike action was initiated in the plant, which was put down by force by the ZOMO on Dec. 19, and 20 people were arrested.

Points of interest

The most notable landmark in Puławy is the

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-Classicist Czartoryski Palace, dating from 1676–1679 (architect Tylman van Gameren), burned in 1706, remodeled 1722–36, and again by Chrystian Piotr Aigner ca. 1800. The palace is surrounded by a 30-hectare park, in 1798-1806 fashioned into an

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, which includes classicist park pavilions dating from the early 19th century. One, the

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d round Temple of the Sibyl, is the setting of Bolesław Prus' striking 1884 micro-story, "

." Near the Temple of the Sibyl is the "Gothic House", built between 1800 and 1809 to commemorate Prince Józef Poniatowski’s visit to Puławy; it now houses the Regional Museum. Other palace buildings house the Soil and Fertilizer Institute. Additional interesting buildings within the park include: * Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1800–03) by Chrystian Piotr Aigner, styled after the

Pantheon, Rome The Pantheon (, ; la, Pantheum,Although the spelling ''Pantheon'' is standard in English, only ''Pantheum'' is found in classical Latin; see, for example, Pliny, '' Natural History'36.38 "Agrippas Pantheum decoravit Diogenes Atheniensis". Se ...

, originally - Czartoryskis' Chapel. It is actually located outside the park. * Marynka"s Palace (1790–94), built for

Maria Wirtemberska Princess Maria Czartoryska (formerly Duchess Louis of Württemberg; 15 March 1768, Warsaw – 21 October 1854, Paris), was a Polish noble, writer, musician and philanthropist. Life Maria Anna was a daughter of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartory ...

, * Roman Gate, built in 1829 as a permanent ruin, styled after the Arch of Titus, * Greek House (1778-1791), currently a public library, * Yellow House, in which Tsar

Alexander II of Russia Alexander II ( rus, Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Fin ...

stayed, * Chinese Arbor, * marble sarcophagus, brought from Rome in 1799 by Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, * a 1790 sculpture of Clorinda and

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(see Jerusalem Delivered). The town of Puławy itself features some interesting buildings, including a former town hall, former Orthodox church, and historic inn.

Science

Since the mid-19th century, Puławy has been a center of higher education. Institutions operating here are: * a local branch of '' Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin'', * ''Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation'', opened in 1950, and based on an earlier school from 1917, * ''National Veterinary Research Institute'', opened in 1945, * ''Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology'', * ''Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture, Division of Apiculture'', * ''Fertilizer Research Institute'', moved in 1968 from

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, * ''Development Department at the Institute of Fundamental Technological of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society o ...

'', since 1993 called Echo-Son SA. Since 2008, local institutes, together with Town Council and the Kazimierz Pułaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom have been working on a modern scientific campus, which will be located in the district of Azoty. Among others, the complex will host four departments of the Radom University of Technology.

Sports

Puławy has several sports clubs, with the most famous ones being

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, swimming, track and field, weight lifting), and

KS Azoty-Puławy KS Azoty-Puławy is a men's handball club from Puławy, Poland, that plays in the Polish Superliga. Team Current squad :''Squad for the 2023–24 season'' ;Goalkeepers * 12 Mateusz Zembrzycki * 16 Wojciech Borucki * Paweł Ciupa * ...

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team which plays in the

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, the country's top division, finishing 3rd in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Gallery

File:Pulawy kosciol wniebowziecia nmp.jpg, Church of the

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) File:Tancred and Clorinda Pulawy.jpg, Sculpture of

and Clorinda

Notable people

* Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734–1823), aristocrat, writer, literary and theater critic, linguist, traveller and statesman *

Princess Izabela Czartoryska Elżbieta "Izabela" Dorota Czartoryska (''née'' Flemming; 3 March 1746 – 15 July 1835) was a Polish princess, writer, art collector, and prominent figure in the Polish Enlightenment. She was the wife of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and a m ...

(1746–1835), noblewoman, writer, and art collector, widely regarded as a very prominent figure of the Polish Enlightenment, the founder of Poland's first museum, the

, now situated in

* Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861), nobleman, statesman and author *

(1768–1854), noble, writer, and philanthropist * Adam of Württemberg (1792–1847), Duke of Württemberg, grandson of

* Jan Feliks Piwarski (1794–1859), painter, curator, writer and graphic artist * Bolesław Prus (1847–1912), novelist, a leading figure in the history of

Polish literature Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland over the centuries have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Lati ...

Józef Wierusz-Kowalski Józef Wierusz-Kowalski (16 March 1866 - 30 November 1927) was a Polish physicist and diplomat. He discovered the phenomenon of progressive phosphorescence. He served as Rector of the University of Freiburg, and helped to establish the section ...

(1866–1927), physicist and diplomat * Julia Kratowska (1870–1946), activist, educator and politician *

Samuel Tyszelman Samuel Tyszelman (born Szmul Cecel Tyszelman; 21 January 1921 – 19 August 1941) was a Jewish Polish communist who was a member of the French Resistance during World War II (1939-1945). He and amother man were arrested and executed for taking pa ...

(1921–1941), member of the

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during

* Irena Stankiewicz (born 1925), graphic artist * Stanisław Szmajzner (1927–1989), anti-Nazi resistance fighter, one of 58 known survivors of the Sobibór extermination camp * Beata Szymańska (born 1938), poet and writer *

Marian Opania Marian Opania (, born 1 February 1943) is a Polish film actor and singer. He has appeared in more than 50 films since 1965. Biography He was born on 1 February 1943 in Puławy as the second son of Julian and Jadwiga. His father was a forester ...

(born 1943), film actor and singer * Bohdan Zadura (born 1945), poet, translator and literary critic *Tomasz Adamski (bron 1963), singer and guitarist, member of the acclaimed 1980s post-punk band Siekiera * Bartosz Opania (born 1970), film, television and theatre actor * Blanka Lipińska (born 1985), cosmetologist and author *

Konrad Czerniak Konrad Czerniak (born 11 July 1989) is a Polish competitive swimmer who has participated in the Olympics, FINA world championships, and European championships. He won ten medals at these championships, mostly in the butterfly. At the 2012 Summer ...

(born 1989), swimmer * Kinga Achruk (born 1989), handball player * Malwina Kopron (born 1994), hammer thrower

Twin towns — sister cities

Puławy is twinned with: * Boyarka, Ukraine * Castelo Branco, Portugal *

Dubliany Dubliany ( uk, Дубляни; pl, Dublany) is a city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast ( region) of Ukraine and a suburb of Lviv ( away). It belongs to Lviv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . Located in the northern sid ...

, Ukraine * Nyasvizh, Belarus * Stendal, Germany Former twin towns, both having ended their relation due to implementation of a

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: *

Douai Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, Dou ...

, France *

Nieuwegein Nieuwegein () is a municipality and city in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is bordered on the north by the city of Utrecht, the provincial capital. It is separated from Vianen to the south by the river Lek and borders on IJsselstein in the ...

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Bibliography

* '' Encyklopedia Polski''

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