Jelonki () is a neighbourhood in the Bemowo district of Warsaw, Poland. It is a housing estate with high-rise apartment buildings, located between Czułchowska, Powstańców Śląskich, Sternicza, Brygadzistów, Cokołowa, and Drzeworytników Streets, within the City Information System area of Jelonki Południowe. The neighbourhood was constructed between 1974 and 1977.
Toponomy The housing estate is named after the nearby historic neighbourhood of Jelonki, whose name is a Polish plural diminutive form of the term meaning cervus, a genus of deer.Barbara Petrozolin-Skowrońska (editor): Encyklopedia Warszawy. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1994, ISBN 83-01-08836-2. (in Polish)
History The housing estate was designed by architect A. Skopiński, and built between 1974 and 1977. It was developed around Czułchowska, Powstańców Śląskich, Sternicza, Brygadzistów, Cokołowa, and Drzeworytników Streets, with high-rise apartment buildings, constructed in the large panel system technique.Lech Chmielewski: Przewodnik warszawski. Gawęda o nowej Warszawie. Warsaw: Agencja Omnipress, Państwowe Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnicze Rzeczpospolita, 1987. ISBN 8385028560. (in Polish)
Overview The neighbourhood consists of high-rise apartment buildings, constructed in the large panel system technique, placed between Czułchowska, Powstańców Śląskich, Sternicza, Brygadzistów, Cokołowa, and Drzeworytników Streets. . The neighbourhood has a total area of 46 ha, and when originally opened, featured 4,400 apartments in 45 buildings, for around 15,000 inhabitants.
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