industrial section of Kraków (Cracow), southern Poland, on the Vistula River. The original medieval village settlements of Mogiła and Pleszów grew up around a 13th-century Cistercian monastery. The population of modern Nowa Huta grew rapidly after 1949, attracted by the development of the large Lenin Steelworks (now Sendzimir Steelworks), a hallmark of socialist Poland. Nowa Huta, originally a separate city located just east of Kraków, was incorporated into Kraków in 1951.