Friendship Estate

A fragment of the estate with former workers' barracks.
The Friendship Estate is a housing estate in the borough of Bemowo in Warsaw.
The grounds on which the estate is located were incorporated into Warsaw in 1951.
In 1952, a barrack estate, named "The Estate of Polish and Soviet Friendship", was built here to house the Soviet builders of the Palace of Culture and Science. It was surrounded by a barbed wire fence and the gate was guarded by sentries. The estate had all necessary amenities including a cinema, a canteen, a club, a library, a post office, baths and a boiler room. Two types of houses were built: barracks for the workers and stand-alone houses for the management. The barracks were built of materials taken from the dismantled POW camp Stalag I B "Hohenstein" near Olsztynek.
After the completion of the Palace of Culture and Science in 1955, it was given to Warsaw's higher education institutions as accommodation for students. In 1978, the Friendship Estate was home to 1,190 assistants and employees of Warsaw's higher schools and their families and some 1200 students. Among the students was the future President of Mali Alpha Oumar Konaré.
Spread over the area of 32 ha, the estate has now 25 student houses, 35 residential houses, 77 stand-alone houses and 3 new dormitories in addition to various social, cultural and administrative facilities. Some 1,600 Warsaw students live here.