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Polish Science in the middle and central east in the years 1942–1949 Part I. Persia In the years 1942–1949 a few Polish science institutions and one higher school were active in Persia and Lebanon. They were created and staffed by scientists who were deported to eastern territories of the Soviet Union in 1940/1941. After the Polish-Soviet agreement in 1941, they left the Soviet Union with the Polish Army under General W. Anders. Most of them formerly worked at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. The leading figure involved in the organisation of those institutions was Professor Stanisław Kościałkowski. The emerging organisations, modelled after science institutes in Vilnius, conducted scientific research, collected source materials, created libraries, published journals and scientific publications and educated students. They closed when the Poles left Lebanon.