Szarek, Ełk County
Szarek is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ełk, within Ełk County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Ełk and east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Before 1945 the area was part of Germany.
There is a fairly large family whose surname is associated with the name of the village, and the word szar means gray in Polish. It is unknown what the name "Szarek" really means.
