Poronin

Poronin [pɔˈrɔnin], is a village in southern Poland; from 1999 it formed part of Tatra County of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (it was previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998).[1] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Zakopane and 80 km (50 mi) south of the regional capital Kraków.

Poronin
Mary Magdalene Church
Mary Magdalene Church
Coat of arms of Poronin
Coat of arms
Poronin is located in Poland
Poronin
Poronin
Coordinates: 49°20′40″N 20°0′23″E
Country Poland
VoivodeshipLesser Poland
CountyTatra County
GminaGmina Poronin
Elevation
740 m (2,430 ft)
Population
 (2006)
 • Total3,900
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
34-520
Area code+48 18
Car platesKTT
Websitehttp://www.poronin.pl

Poronin sits on the confluence of rivers Zakopianka and Poroniec, which gives rise to the river Biały Dunajec.

In the summers of 1913 and 1914 Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya rented a holiday home in nearby Biały Dunajec and often stayed in a Poronin inn. The area formed part of Austria-Hungary at that time (as a result of the Partitions of Poland), and when World War I broke out in mid-1914 the Austrian authorities arrested Lenin on suspicion of spying for Russia (August 1914), but deported him to Switzerland soon after (September 1914).[2][3]

During 1947-1990 there used to be a Lenin Museum in Poronin and a statue of Lenin. The statue was transferred to the Socialist Realism Art Gallery (Polish: Galeria Sztuki Socrealizmu, also known as the "Museum of Socialist Realism") in the Kozłówka Palace complex in the Lublin Voivodeship.

References
  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. Read, Christopher (11 January 2013). Lenin: A Revolutionary Life. Routledge Historical Biographies. London: Routledge. p. 105. ISBN 9781134624713. On 7 August their holiday home in Poronin, near Zakopane, was raided by Austrian police. [...] The following day, Lenin was arrested. Through the good offices of the Austrian Social-Democratic leader, Victor Adler, he was released and Lenin and Krupskaya were able to leave, via Vienna, for neutral Switzerland where they arrived on 5 September.
  3. Le Blanc, Paul (17 June 2014). Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine. Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Chicago: Haymarket Books. p. 30. ISBN 9781608463664. Retrieved 27 August 2023. Lenin had moved to Krakow, in Austrian Poland, in 1912. After the outbreak of war in 1914 he was deported to Switzerland.
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