Kubusia Puchatka Street (

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: ''ulica Kubusia Puchatka'') is a street in

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named after

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, known in

translations as ''Kubuś Puchatek''. It was built in the first half of the 1950s, where the ruins of annexes’ buildings used to stand. The street is long, and in some parts it is wide. It is intended to be a walking path to provide relief from crowds of the Nowy Świat Street. The whole street is built up with four-story buildings with shops on the ground floor. Two rows of lime trees transported from Szczecin were planted along the street in 1954. The street building's project is a work of architect Zygmunt Stepiṅski and architecture students from

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. The name of the street was chosen in the competition by readers of ''Express Wieczorny'' in 1954. On the north end of the street, next to its intersection with Świętokrzyska Street, is the

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station M2 Nowy Świat-Uniwersytet. Image:Ulica Kubusia Puchatka w Warszawie.jpg Image:Ulica Kubusia Puchatka w Warszawie 01.jpg Image:2007-07-18 Warszawa, ul. Kubusia Puchatka.jpg Image:Ulica Kubusia Puchatka w Warszawie 04.jpg

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