Babi Yar
Babi Yar or Babyn Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Historical site
- Description: ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and site of Nazi massacres
- Also known as: “Babin Yar”, “Babiy Yar”, and “Babyn Yar”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Меморіальний комплекс Бабин яр and Dorohozhychi.
Меморіальний комплекс Бабин яр
Park
Photo: Alex long, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Меморіальний комплекс Бабин яр is a park.
Dorohozhychi
Metro station
Photo: AMY 81-412, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dorohozhychi is a Kyiv Metro station on the Syretsko-Pecherska Line. Opened on 30 March 2000, the station represents the second extension of the Syretsky radius to the northwest. Dorohozhychi is situated 200 metres north of Babi Yar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dorohozhychi and Repiahiv Yar.
Dorohozhychi
Neighborhood
Photo: George Chernilevsky, Public domain.
Dorohozhychi is a neighborhood.
Shuliavka
Suburb
The Shevchenkivskyi District is an urban district of the city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It was originally established on 4 April 1937, although in 2001 its area was increased following an annexation of the former Radianskyi and Starokyivskyi districts.
Babi Yar
- Categories: place of mass murder, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Kyiv, Central Ukraine, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Babi Yar” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Babin Jar”
- Arabic: “بابي يار”
- Armenian: “Բաբի Յառի կոտորածներ”
- Azerbaijani: “Babi Yar”
- Belarusian: “Бабін Яр”
- Bosnian: “Babin Jar”
- Breton: “Babi Yar”
- Bulgarian: “Бабин Яр”
- Catalan: “Babi Iar”
- Chinese: “娘子谷大屠殺”
- Chuvash: “Бабий Яр”
- Croatian: “Babyn Jar”
- Czech: “Babí Jar”
- Danish: “Babij Jar”
- Dutch: “Babi Jar”
- Dutch: “Babi Yar”
- Dutch: “Babyn Jar”
- Dutch: “Bloedbad van Babi Jar”
- Dutch: “Bloedbad van Babi Yar”
- Dutch: “Het bloedbad van Babi Jar”
- Esperanto: “Babij Jar”
- Esperanto: “Babin Jar”
- Estonian: “Babi Jar”
- Estonian: “Babõn Jar”
- Finnish: “Babi Jar”
- Finnish: “Babi Jarin joukkomurha”
- Finnish: “Babyn Jar”
- French: “Babi Yar”
- French: “Massacre de Babi Yar”
- Georgian: “ბაბი-იარი”
- German: “Babi Jar”
- German: “Babi Yar”
- German: “Babi-Yar”
- German: “Babii Yar”
- German: “Babij Jar”
- German: “Baby Yar”
- German: “Babyn Jar”
- German: “Weiberschlucht”
- Greek: “Μπαμπί Γιάρ”
- Greek: “Μπάμπι Γιαρ”
- Greek: “Μπάμπι Γιάρ”
- Hebrew: “באבי יאר”
- Hebrew: “באביאר”
- Hebrew: “בבי יאר”
- Hebrew: “טבח באבי יאר”
- Hungarian: “Babij Jar”
- Indonesian: “Babi Yar”
- Italian: “Babi Yar”
- Italian: “Babij Jar”
- Italian: “Massacro di Kiev”
- Japanese: “バビ・ヤール”
- Japanese: “バビヤール”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Babiy yar”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Babiy Yar”
- Kazakh: “Бабий яр”
- Korean: “바비 야르 학살”
- Korean: “바비 야르”
- Latin: “Babi Jar”
- Latin: “Babi Yar”
- Latin: “Babij Jar”
- Latvian: “Babijjara”
- Latvian: “Babinjara”
- Lithuanian: “Babij Jaras”
- Lithuanian: “Babin Jaras”
- Luxembourgish: “Babyn Jar”
- Macedonian: “Бабин Јар”
- Malay: “Babi Yar”
- Mazanderani: “بابی یار قتل عام”
- Newari: “बाबि यार”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Babij Jar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Babyn Jar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “kvinnekløften”
- Norwegian: “Babij Jar”
- Persian: “بابی یار”
- Polish: “Babi Jar”
- Portuguese: “Babi Yar”
- Portuguese: “Massacre de kiev”
- Romanian: “Babi Iar”
- Russian: “Бабий Яр”
- Russian: “Бабин яр”
- Scots: “Babi Yar”
- Serbian: “Бабин Јар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Babin Jar”
- Slovak: “Babij Jar”
- Slovak: “Babyn Jar”
- Slovak: “Masaker v rokline Babij Jar”
- Slovenian: “Babji Jar”
- Spanish: “Babi Yar”
- Swedish: “Babi Jar”
- Swedish: “Babij Jar”
- Tatar: “Babiy Yar”
- Thai: “บาบีย์ยาร์”
- Thai: “บาบึนยาร์”
- Turkish: “Babi Yar Katliamı”
- Turkish: “Babi Yar”
- Ukrainian: “Memorialnyi Kompleks Babyn Yar”
- Ukrainian: “Бабин Яр”
- Ukrainian: “Меморіальний Комплекс Бабин Яр”
- Urdu: “بابی جار”
- Urdu: “بابی یار”
- Urdu: “بابیجار”
- Uzbek: “Babiy yar”
- Uzbek: “Babiy Yar”
- Vietnamese: “Thảm sát Babyn Jar”
- Western Panjabi: “بابی جار”
- Western Panjabi: “بابی یار”
- Wu Chinese: “娘子谷大屠杀”
- Yiddish: “באבי יאר”
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