A bust of Professor Stanislaw Zuber - a Polish geologist martyred by the Hoxha regime - was unveiled in the Albanian town of Kuçova by Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski. The ceremony, which took place on 17 October 2011, was attended by the President of Albania Bamir Topi, the Minister of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sport Aldo Bumci, the Polish Ambassador in Tirana Irena Tatarzyńska and the city authorities. The monument was supported by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The author of the bronze bust is the prominent Albanian sculptor Professor Mumtas Dhrami.

Stanisław Zuber (born on 14 October 1883 in Lviv, died in 1947 in Tirana) - Polish geologist, specialist in geology of oil fields, as well as regional and raw material geology of Albania.

He studied in Lviv and Krakow. While still a student, he published his first scientific paper in 1914. In the spring of 1915, after Lviv was occupied, he was deported deep into Russia. He settled in Baku, where he found employment as a geologist with a Polish oil company. He worked there from 1915 to 1923, exploring for oil deposits in the Eastern Caucasus and in the south-eastern part of the Caspian Sea, in the Baku region. He also explored mud volcanoes, among other things. He published the results of his work in the USSR and in Poland, after his return in 1923. In 1924, he defended his doctoral thesis on mud volcanoes in Lviv. At the 14th International Geology Congress in Madrid in 1926, he reported on his studies on the geology of oil deposits in the Ponto-Caspian regions, mud volcanoes and the Carpathian flysch.

In the same year, at the international petroleum congress in Bucharest, he gave a paper on oil migration. Representatives of oil companies and companies present at the convention noticed a talented geologist in Zuber. As a result, the head of the Italian delegation, the senator and industrialist Puppini, signed a contract with him to work for the oil company AIPA (Azienda Italiana Petroli Albania) for exploration work in Albania, Italy and Montenegro. After habilitating at the Jagiellonian University in 1927, Zuber left for Italy, from where he travelled to Albania, where he took up the position of chief geologist of the AIPA company, based in Kuçova (Kuchova). He investigated the Kuçova-Lushnja, Murriz-Pekisht and Patos-Cakran-Selenica areas. He sent the results of his research in the Italian concession areas to Rome. Among other things, he was positive about the prospects of discovering oil and gas-bearing areas in the southern part of Albania, which was soon confirmed by drilling. Thanks to his efforts, Albania now has two oil industry cities: Kuçova and Patos. Kuçova's oil fields proved so large that they supplied Italy in the Second World War with fuel.

Until 1935, Professor Zuber made frequent trips to Poland, where he was awarded the title of "docent". At the same time, he carried out geological research in Italy, in the central and southern part of the Apennine Peninsula, in Sicily and around Naples. He also participated in numerous international congresses and symposia of earth sciences, especially on the geology of oil fields (Paris, Washington, Rome, Liège, London, etc.). After 1935, he settled permanently in Albania and devoted himself to the study of the geology of the country, especially the occurrence of oil, natural gas, natural bitumen, ore-bearing minerals and drinking water. He also studied the stratigraphy and tectonics of the Tertiary, which formed the basis of knowledge of the Albanian Neogene. He also produced a tectonic map of Albania at a scale of 1:4,000,000, a geological map of Albania at a scale of 1:200,000 and a mineral map of Albania at a scale of 1:300,000.

He wrote numerous accounts, reports and projects; he also produced numerous cross-sections and geological maps on a scale of 1:50 000, up to a scale of 1:10 000; their total number reaches 450. In turn, the list of publications published in various journals of the world includes 62 titles. After the war, in 1945 and 1946, Stanislaw Zuber was well treated by the communist authorities in Albania and no obstacles were put in his way in his work. Among other things, in 1946 he presented a report to the Ministry of Economy on metal ore deposits in eastern and north-eastern Albania, mapping out the location of mines that were put into operation in the following decades. In early June 1947, Zuber was arrested and charged with collaboration, sabotage and espionage. He was subjected to torture in order to extract confessions. He died during the investigation in a prison in Tirana. The fact of his death in prison was not known in Albania until April 1991, when writer and columnist Petro Marko wrote about the case in the magazine Rilindja Demokratike.

In 1992, he was posthumously awarded the Albanian award of Martyr for Democracy.

The Department of Cultural Heritage at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage pledged €12,000 in 2011, which was used through the Polish Embassy in Tirana to realise the monument to Professor Zuber. The inscription on the monument is bilingual.

In Tirana, however, there is a street and a plaque commemorating Stanislaw Zuber.