Pyriatyn
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Pyriatyn (, ) is a city in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of Pyriatyn Raion until its abolishment in 2020. The city is located on the Dnieper Lowland, in the forest-steppe natural zone. The city of Pyriatyn is an important industrial center of Poltava region. Population:
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Pyriatyn
- Settlement.native_name
- Пирятин
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- uk
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Коллаж Пирятин (2020).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Clockwise from top left: Water tower, Museum of History and Local Lore, Cathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Railway station
- Settlement.image_shield
- File:Pyratyn coat.png
- Settlement.image_flag
- File:Pyryatyn prapor.png
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ukraine Poltava Oblast#Ukraine
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Poltava Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Hromada
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Lubny Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Pyriatyn urban hromada
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.population_total
- 14988
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Пирятин
- Population
- 14988
- Area
- 7.2
- Elevation
- 89
- Official website
- pyriatyn.org.ua
- Image
- Собор Рiздва Богородицi. м.Пирятин.jpg
- Dialing code
- 5358
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- Commons category
- Pyriatyn
- inception
- 1155-00-00
- native label
- Пирятин
- P8168
- Gnarls Barkley
- postal code
- 37000
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Pyriatyn (, ) is a city in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of Pyriatyn Raion until its abolishment in 2020. The city is located on the Dnieper Lowland, in the forest-steppe natural zone. The city of Pyriatyn is an important industrial center of Poltava region. Population:
==History== At the end of 1941 or beginning 1942, a ghetto guarded by policemen was established and numbered over 1,500 Jews by late March 1942. There were two major executions of Jews carried out by SD units Sonderkommando Plath, accompanied by Ukrainian auxiliary police. The first one took place on April 6, 1942, about 1530 Jews were taken to the woods, 3 km away from the town, and murdered. The second mass execution took place on May 18, 1942, when several Jewish families were killed along with 380 communists and Soviet militants, and 25 Gypsy families.
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