Bialy Slon at Pop Ivan - Zelena, Ukraine
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N 48° 02.820 E 024° 37.650
35U E 323188 N 5324247
Abandoned building of the former Polish Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory, located at remote area on the peak of Pop Ivan
Waymark Code: WMF7C3
Location: Ukraine
Date Posted: 09/05/2012
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Bialy Slon (in English it mean White Elephant) is a Polish name for an abandoned building of the former Polish Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory, located at remote area on the peak of Pop Ivan in the Chornohora range of the Carpathian Mountains. The closest settlement today is a village of Zelena in Verkhovyna Raion (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast). Currently the observatory is classified under the registration number three as a monument of cultural heritage that is not considered for privatization.
The region was part of the Second Polish Republic when the observatory was established during the interbellum period. Bialy Slon, started in 1937 and completed in the summer of 1938, was the highest-elevated, permanently inhabited, building in Poland.
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