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Also known as Piryatin

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:

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Settlement.official_name
Pyriatyn
Settlement.native_name
Пирятин
Settlement.native_name_lang
uk
Settlement.settlement_type
City
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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
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File:Pyratyn coat.png
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File:Pyryatyn prapor.png
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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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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
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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