Maria reactor
The Maria reactor is Poland's second research nuclear reactor and the only one still in use. It is located at Świerk-Otwock, near Warsaw and named in honor of Maria Skłodowska-Curie.
Góra Kalwaria [ˈgura kalˈvarʲa] is a town on the Vistula River in the Mazovian Voivodship, Poland, about 25 kilometres (16 miles) southeast of Warsaw. It has a population of about 11,000 (1992). The town has significance for both Catholic Christians and Hasidic Jews. Originally, its name was simply Góra (literally: "Mountain"), changed in 1670 to Nowa Jerozolima ("New Jerusalem"), and in the 18th century to Góra Kalwaria ("Calvary Mountain").
Population: 10,777
Latitude: 51° 58' 35.51" N
Longitude: 21° 12' 55.33" E
The Maria reactor is Poland's second research nuclear reactor and the only one still in use. It is located at Świerk-Otwock, near Warsaw and named in honor of Maria Skłodowska-Curie.
Królikarnia (English: The Rabbit House) is a historic palace in Warsaw, Poland in the classical style, as well as a neighborhood in the Mokotów district of Warsaw.
Garwolin [ɡarˈvɔlʲin] ( listen) is a town on the Wilga river in eastern Poland, capital of Garwolin County, situated in the southeast part of the Garwolin plateau in Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999, before: Siedlce Voivodeship), 62 km southeast of …
Vistula University (VU) (Akademia Finansów i Biznesu Vistula) was founded in 1996 and is one of the first private universities of Poland. Vistula University (Vu) is supervised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of The Republic of Poland…
Raszyn [ˈraʂɨn] is a village in Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Raszyn. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) east of Pruszków and 9 km (6 mi) sout…
Pilica is a river in central Poland, the longest left tributary of the Vistula river, with a length of 319 kilometres (8th longest) and the basin area of 9,273 km2 (all in Poland).
Karczew [ˈkart͡ʂɛf] is a town in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 10,271 inhabitants (2010).
Okęcie is the largest neighbourhood of the Włochy district of Warsaw, Poland.
Mszczonów [ˈmʂt͡ʂɔnuf] (Yiddish: אמשינאוו Amshinov) is a town in Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,310 inhabitants (2004).
Milanówek [mʲilaˈnuvɛk] is a town and a seat of a separate commune in Poland. Located in the Grodzisk Mazowiecki County near Warsaw, it is often considered an outlying suburb of the capital of Poland but is in fact an independent entity administrati…
Wólka Kosowska [ˈvulka kɔˈsɔfska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lesznowola, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-west of Lesznowola, 12 km (7 mi…
Siekierki Power Station (Polish: 'Elektrociepłownia Siekierki') is a combined heat and power plant at Augustówka in Warsaw, Poland. It has an installed heat capacity of 2,081 MW and power generation capacity of 622 MW. Construction work on the stati…
Podkowa Leśna [pɔtˈkɔva ˈlɛɕna] (literal meaning - "Horseshoe Grove", in full: Miasto-ogród Podkowa Leśna - "Garden-City Podkowa Leśna") is a town in Grodzisk Mazowiecki County (Masovian Voivodeship) of Poland and located on the Łowicko–Błońska Plai…
Nosy [ˈnɔsɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tarczyn, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
Kabaty [kaˈbatɨ] is a neighborhood in Ursynów, the southernmost district of Warsaw. Sparsely populated until the late 1980s, Kabaty witnessed rapid growth in the 1990s and especially the 2000s.
Galeria Mokotów is a shopping center in the Mokotów borough of Warsaw.
The 23rd Air Base (Polish: 23 Baza Lotnicza) is a Polish Air Force base, located 6 km east of Mińsk Mazowiecki. It was officially constituted on 1 January 2001, replacing the disbanded 1st Aviation Regiment "Warszawa".
Łaskarzew [wasˈkaʐɛf] is a town in Garwolin County (15 kilometres (9 miles) from Garwolin), Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,948 inhabitants (2004).