Bialystok

Białystok is the largest city (pop. 287,400 in 2003) in north-eastern Poland and the capital of Podlasie Voivodship since 1999, previously of Bialystok Voivodship (1921-1998).

Table of contents

1 Education 2 Memorabilia 2.1 Birthplace 2.2 Events

Education

• Bialystok University, http://www.uwb.edu.pl/
• Politechnika Bialostocka, http://www.pb.bialystok.pl/
• Musical Academy, http://chopin.man.bialystok.pl/
• Medical Academy, http://amb.ac.bialystok.pl/
• Theatre Academy, http://puppet.man.bialystok.pl/
• Higher Seminary, http://www.awsd.bialystok.pl/

Birthplace

• L. L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto.
• Dziga Vertov, a Soviet documentary film and newsreel director.
• Izabella Scorupco, actress

• 1920: An attempt to declare the Polish Soviet Socialist Republic by Polish Provisional Revolutionary Committee headed by Julian Marchlewski.

Max Bialystock is one of the lead characters in Mel Brooks' farce The Producers.