RIP Warsaw's Russian Market

Alex Webber - 14th January 2010

As 2012 and the European Football Championships approach, Poland's new multi-million euro national stadium complex can be seen growing by the day over on the Praga, east bank, of the Wisla river. However fantastic the new development looks though, for this writer the area will always be remembered as the former home to Europe’s largest outdoor market, Warsaw’s most absurd attraction, and our favourite source of Valentine’s gifts. The Russian Market.

While the rest of Saska Kępa enjoyed a reputation for its serenity this was anything but, and little more than a battlefield of tramlines and concrete subways, always buzzing with people laden with plastic bags making their way to Poland†...