Kidney transplantation is a preferred option for patients with end stage renal disease. The renal transplant programme of cadaveric donors at the School of Medicine in Lublin has begun in 1994. 219 transplants were performed to 2005. In 1994-2001, 7±3 transplantations at average have been done a year, and in 2002-2005, the number of transplantations increased about six times. The results of transplantation in the second period improved. The number of grafts with immediate function recovery increased. The number of primary nonfunction grafts decreased. In transplants with delayed graft function, the time of dialysis was reduced. During twelve years of observation, 13 patients died; thus patient survival was 95%. 15 patients returned to a dialysis programme due to chronic allograft nephropathy and the allograft survival was 90.4%. The results of kidney transplantation in Lublin are satisfactory, and they are a good basis for further development of transplantation practice, involving not only kidneys.