Powązki Cemetery (; ), also known as Stare Powązki (), is a historic necropolis located in Wola district, in the western part of Warsaw, Poland. It is the most famous cemetery in the city and one of the oldest, having been established in 1790. It is the burial place of many illustrious individuals from Polish history. Some are interred along the "Avenue of the Distinguished" – Aleja Zasłużonych, created in 1925. It is estimated that over one million people are buried at Powązki.

  • Krystyna Piotrowska (1938–2022), Polish geologist, cartographer, professor
  • Bolesław Prus (1847–1912), journalist and novelist
  • Grzegorz Przemyk (1964–1983), poet murdered by Milicja Obywatelska
  • Kazimierz Pużak (1883–1950), died in the Communist prison, secretly buried in Powązki
  • Emil Rauer (1870–1943), industrialist, creator and commander of a railway protection formation, social activist, and independence fighter
  • Halina Regulska (1899–1994), racing driver, socialite, author, member of Polish resistance movement in World War II
  • Władysław Reymont (1867–1925), Nobel Prize-winning novelist
  • Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886–1941), politician, statesman, Marshal of Poland and Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces
  • Ireneusz Roszkowski (1910–1996), gynaecologist
  • Irena Sendlerowa (1910–2008), head of Children's Section of the Żegota
  • Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), mathematician
  • Piotr Sobociński (1958–2001), cinematographer
  • Witold Sobociński (1929–2018), cinematographer
  • Jadwiga Smosarska (1898–1971), actress
  • Andrzej Sołtan (1897–1959), physicist
  • Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski (1917–2018), military commander, participant of the Warsaw Uprising
  • Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski (1893–1964), general
  • Władysław Tryliński (1878–1956), transportation engineer and inventor
  • Jerzy Waldorff (1910–1999), art critic and one of the benefactors of the Cemetery
  • Melchior Wańkowicz (1892–1974), writer
  • Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1870), composer
  • Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894–1969), poet and writer
  • Stanisław Wigura (1901–1932), aircraft designer and aviator
  • Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869–1953), president of Poland
  • Aleksander Zelwerowicz (1877–1955), actor and director, patron of the Warsaw Drama Academy
  • Franciszek Żwirko (1895–1932), aviator
  • Wojciech Żywny (1756–1842), first piano teacher of Fryderyk Chopin, composer.
  • Helena Morsztynkiewiczowa (1894–1983), architect and urban planner

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File:PL Warsaw Stare Powązki aleja zasluzonych.jpg|Avenue of Notables

File:Kosciol sw Boromeusza w Warszawie.jpg|Saint Karol Boromeusz Church

File:PL Warsaw Stare Powązki alejka cmentarza 1.jpg|Old Powązki

File:Grob Edwarda Rydza Smiglego.JPG|Edward Rydz-Śmigły grave

File:Warsaw Powazki 2007 11 02 20a.JPG|Old Powązki

File:Warszawa, Cmentarz Powązkowski SDC11678.JPG|Old Powązki

File:Warszawa, Cmentarz Powązkowski SDC11660.JPG|Old Powązki

File:Warszawa, Cmentarz Powązkowski SDC11653.JPG|Old Powązki

File:Warszawa, Cmentarz Powązkowski SDC11651.JPG|Old Powązki

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See also

  • Rakowicki Cemetery
  • Lychakiv Cemetery

References