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Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw

Urszula Wodnicka-Kasprzak

DOI: 10.21858/msr.46.05

Vol. no: 46

The place is unique. Its identity has been determined by Polish history, human as the creator of material forms supported by the nature. It is a collective work, continuously shaped for over a century. “Cemeteries are not for the dead, but for the living” – as Wiktor Zin stated. The image, created by successive generations, still can be reinterpreted – as a whole or selectively as individual tombstones and monuments of exceptional artistic value. In Powązki Military Cemetery there can be found traces of activities of recognized artists, whose names and work remain undisplayed in the cemetery. This study aims to highlight some of monuments in order to remove author’s anonymity and to show their work in broader cultural and historical context. The article is a result of numerous visits to the cemetery with a camera in an effort to frame images of monuments. In addition, the paper shows effects of research for data on monuments’ authors.

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Popularising knowledge of Mazovian history through the activities of the Mazovian Museum in Płock

Tomasz Kordala

DOI: 10.21858/msr.46.04

Vol. no: 46

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This article elaborates the ways of popularising knowledge about the past of Mazovia by Museum in Płock since its establishment, as part of the Płock Scientific Society, in 1821. It had a strictly regional character. The collection consisted, on the one hand, of school teaching aids (minerals, physical and chemical equipment, globes, etc.), and on the other hand, of various exhibits donated by teachers, students, landowners, military personnel and priests, including numerous archaeological artefacts, coins, medals, natural history specimens, documents, etc. During scientific meetings, the latest archaeological and numismatic troves were reported, field inspections were organised, historical monuments were collected and placed in the museum. The institution was closed down shortly after the fall of the November Uprising. It was reactivated at the beginning of the 20th century.

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International cooperation of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship. Foreign cooperation agreements. Part one

Stanisław Faliński

DOI: 10.21858/msr.46.03

Vol. no: 46

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The article is devoted to the international cooperation of Mazovia – Poland’s largest self-governing region. Due to its size, it is divided into two parts. The first, published below, is entitled Foreign cooperation agreements. It presents the Priorities of foreign cooperation of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship and discusses in a detailed and analytical manner the agreements on cooperation between Mazovia and its foreign partners (rom Europe and the world) resulting from the priorities.

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Special acts – location of public purpose investments disregarding the Spatial Planning and Development Act

Anna Wieczorek

DOI: 10.21858/msr.46.02

Vol. no: 46

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The aim of the article is to make readers aware that: – special acts cause chaos in the legal system and do not guarantee the preservation of order in space;– the best tool for determining the location of investments, not only of public purpose, is the local spatial development plan drawn up on the basis of the provisions of the Spatial Planning and Development Act.

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Conceptual chaos around ecology – ambiguity of concepts related to ecology and associations they evoke

Ariadna Ciążela

DOI: 10.21858/msr.46.01

Vol. no: 46

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The subject of the article is the ambiguity of terms related to environmentalism in Polish. The article presents the results of a research on students’ understanding of concepts related to environmentalism. The article also includes a theoretical analysis of the comprehension and use of terms such as ‘ecology’, ‘ecologist’ and ‘ecologism’ in Polish.One of the inspirations for the study was the lack of distinction in Polish between ecology as a science and an ecologist as a biologist, and environmentalism which is also called ‘ecology’ in Polish and an ecologist as an pro-environmental activist (‘environmentalist‘) which occurs in English.

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Reconstruction of the western frontage of Piłsudski Square – Is the special act necessary?

Anna Wieczorek, Magnolia Gorzelak

DOI: 10.21858/msr.45.05

Vol. no: 45

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The Act on the preparation and implementation of investments in the reconstruction of the Saxon Palace, the Brühl Palace and tenement houses at Królewska Street in Warsaw entered into force in 2021. This is another of many of so-called special acts that suspend the implementation of generally applicable regulations.In 1939, the Saxon Palace, the Brühl Palace and the tenement houses at Królewska Street formed the western frontage of the square which was named after Marshal Józef Piłsudski. The aim of the article is to demonstrate that generally applicable regulations are sufficient to organize the reconstruction, in particular to determine the location of above-mentioned buildings.

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Solidarity Transport Hub – location principles

Anna Wieczorek, Mariusz Sowa

DOI: 10.21858/msr.45.04

Vol. no: 45

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In 2018, the Act on the Solidarity Transport Hub, known as the CPK Act, was enacted. This is another so-called special act in our legal system, on the basis of which public purpose investments are located without regard to generally applicable regulations. By the term Solidarity Transport Hub, the legislator defines a number of tasks, called projects, in particular the construction of a public-use airport and the roads and railway lines serving it.The purpose of this article is to make readers aware of how complicated the CPK Act is and that the legislation in force prior to its enactment made it possible to locate the Solidarity Transport Hub, and that the effort needed to prepare the necessary documents required for this would not have been greater.

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Legally protected natural areas in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship in the years 1999–2022

Elżbieta Jaglak, Grzegorz Derbin, Marcin Rojek

DOI: 10.21858/msr.45.03

Vol. no: 45

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The article discusses the changes in the scope of natural legally protected areas, that occured after the administrative reform in 1999. It indicates the tasks carried out by the Self-Government of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship in the field of regional policy and spatial management in accordance with the principle of sustainable development. The Mazowieckie Voivodeship – created under the territorial division reform – covered a system of protected areas that included the Kampinos National Park, 164 nature reserves, 9 landscape parks and 29 protected landscape areas. In nearly 25 years, 26 nature reserves and one protected landscape area were created. The boundaries of the existing forms of nature protection have also been modified. With Poland’s accession to the European Union, the most significant changes concerning legally protected areas have taken place. The implementation of EU law into Polish law resulted, inter alia, in the introduction of a new form of nature protection – Natura 2000 sites, complementing the existing system of legally protected areas. By March 2023, 80 areas of the Natura 2000 network had been designated and approved in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship. The article discusses how the position and competences of the regional self-government in the field of nature protection have evolved as a result of changes in the law. The voivodeship self-government took over competences in the field of landscape parks and protected landscape areas. As a result of the acquired rights, the Mazovian Voivodeship Sejmik, inter alia, established the Mazovian Landscape Parks complex and protection plans for landscape parks. The boundaries of the protected landscape areas have been specified. Spatial databases are also maintained in the field of protected areas.

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Analysis of the structure of scheduled airlines capacity in Central European countries. Part two

Marek Serafin

DOI: 10.21858/msr.45.02

Vol. no: 45

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The post-pandemic period is particularly important for the European aviation market. We can observe new trends of changes that will shape it for many years to come. We can already clearly see that the Central European region has its own specificity, distinguishing it from Western Europe. In the case of our country, analysing the situation and forecasting the future is particularly important, as decisions are currently being taken regarding huge infrastructure investments. The structure of the number of seats offered by scheduled airlines and the changes in it are very good indicators of the strategies of air carriers, the most important players in the market game.

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