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| White Elephant | |
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| Native names Polish: Biały Słoń Ukrainian: Білий слон | |
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| Location | Pip Ivan, Verkhovyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 48°02′49″N 24°37′38″E / 48.04694°N 24.62722°E |
| Area | 500 square metres (5,400 sq ft)[1] |
| Elevation | 2,028 metres (6,654 ft)[1] |
| Built | 29 July 1938 |
| Built for | Polish Armed Forces / University of Warsaw |
| Architect | K.Marczewski, J.Pohoski |
| Governing body | Verkhovyna Raion authorities along with State Emergency Service of Ukraine and Ministry of Education |
Biały Słoń (English: White Elephant; Ukrainian: Білий слон, Bily slon) is a Polish name for an abandoned campus of the former Polish Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory of University of Warsaw, located at remote area on the peak of Pip Ivan in the Chornohora range of the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine. Currently the structure is used as a mountain shelter with a small search and rescue team with some rooms adapted for lodging and recovery.
Along with that Bialy Slon is recognized as a historical landmark and there are restoration activities on the way since 2012 to restore its original conditions in cooperation with the Ciscarpathian National University and the University of Warsaw and scheduled to be finished in 2018.[2] It is considered to be the highest built residential structure in Ukraine.[2]
The closest settlement today is a village of Zelena in Verkhovyna Raion (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) and territorially belongs to the Zelena rural council. Currently the observatory is classified under the registration number three as a monument of cultural heritage that is not considered for privatization.[3] The facility is located with the Carpathian National Nature Park.
The region was part of the Second Polish Republic when the observatory was established during the interbellum period. Biały Słoń, started in 1937 and completed in the summer of 1938, was the highest-elevated, permanently inhabited, building in Poland.[4] It was located on the international border between the Second Polish Republic and Czechoslovakia that stretched across mountain peaks of the Carpathian Mountains.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
lightningwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Renovation of the abandoned observatory at the Carpathian peak continues. Ukrayinska Pravda. 7 October 2015
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Law of Ukraine: About the list of monuments of cultural heritage that are not considered for privatization (#574-17, September 23, 2008)
- ^ (in Polish) [1] Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
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