Zdzisław Celiński (1847–1929) was a Polish engineer. Celinski took part in the

January Uprising The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last i ...

. He arrived in Argentina in 1895. He was a constructor of the railway

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

- Santa Fe and of the port of Gualeguaychú on the

Uruguay River The Uruguay River ( ; ) is a major river in South America. It flows from north to south and forms parts of the boundaries of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of La Mesopotamia from the other two countr ...

. For the construction of the port Celiński received golden medal from the Argentinian government. He then worked on hydrographic studies and electrification using hydropower. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he led a scientific expedition to the

Gran Chaco The Gran Chaco or simply Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion o ...

region for future colonization.

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20th-century Polish engineers 1847 births 1929 deaths Polish expatriates in Argentina Polish civil engineers 19th-century Polish engineers {{Poland-engineer-stub