Biały Słoń (English: White Elephant) is a Polish name for an abandoned campus of the former Polish Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory of Warsaw University, located at remote area on the peak of Pip Ivan in the Chornohora range of the Carpathian Mountains. Currently the structure is used as a mountain shelter with a small search and rescue team with some rooms adopted for lodging and recovery. It is recognized as a historical landmark and there are restoration activities began in 2012 to restore its original conditions and scheduled to be finished in 2018. It is considered to be the highest built residential structure in Ukraine.
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