Włodzimierz Bolecki: ‘As a writer, I was born in a labour camp,’ Gustaw Herling-Grudziński said many times. This approach remains valid today and is reflected in the writer’s path to becoming an editor at Kultura.
The Great Famine in Kazakhstan (Asharshylyk): A Forgotten History
Dmitriy Panto: Although the subject of the Great Famine in Ukraine (Holodomor) is widely known and researched, the history of this tragedy in Kazakhstan has largely gone without mention in Polish historiography.
History in liquidation – removal of Polish memorials in Russia
Ewa Ziółkowska: Last year in Russia, one by one, Polish memorial signs disappeared in unexplained circumstances. Crosses, plaques and entire multi-ton stone monuments were removed. This is the Russian response to Poland’s involvement in helping Ukraine attacked by Russia in February 2022.
Resettled in Africa on the way to Poland
Adam Czesław Dobroński: A total of 19 Polish settlements were set up in Africa, with more than 20,000 Polish citizens living in them. They arrived by sea transport from Persia to the ports of Mombasa, Tanga and Dar es Salam, Mozambique, and from there were transported inland.
Józef Osmołowski – an outstanding expert on Kazakh customsJózef Osmołowski – an outstanding expert in Kazakh customary law
Józef Osmołowski (1820–1881), unlike the entire galaxy of outstanding exiles, made a career in the tsarist administration of his own free will, becoming one of the most outstanding 19th-century ethnographers studying the community of nomadic Kazakhs.
Not everyone returned home…
Nadezhda Kubik: For several years, the Pavlodar Land became home to over 11,000 Polish citizens.
Miracle in Oziornoye
Valentina Vitkovska: On the territory of the North Kazakhstan region, in Tainshin district, in the the vast, boundless steppes, there is the lost settlement of Oziornoye.
The Contribution of Poles to the Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
One of the most important successes of the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was, undoubtedly, the construction of the great Trans-Siberian Railway.
Soldiers of the 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, The Middle East, 1942
The 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division was formed in May 1942 in Qastina in the then-territory of Palestine as a result of a merger of the Polish...
Photojournalism: Past and Present in the Steppes of Kazakhstan
I went to Kazakhstan to meet the descendants of Poles deported to the steppes. To the lands that are part of the area defined in the Polish…












