Babi Yar monument

Babi Yar or Babyn Yar is a ravine in the capital and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.
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  • Type: Monument
  • Description: ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and site of Nazi massacres
  • Also known as: “Babi Yar”, “Babin Yar”, “Babiy Yar”, and “Babyn Yar”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Меморіальний комплекс Бабин яр and Dorohozhychi.

Park
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is a park.

Metro station
Photo: AMY 81-412, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. is situated 280 metres north of Babi Yar monument.

Memorial
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is a memorial, which is situated 140 metres southwest of Babi Yar monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dorohozhychi and Repiahiv Yar.

Neighborhood
Photo: George Chernilevsky, Public domain.
is a neighborhood.

Neighborhood
Photo: Сарапулов, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood.

Suburb
The Shevchenkivskyi District is an urban district of the city of , the capital of . 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 monument

Latitude
50.47119° or 50° 28′ 16″ north
Longitude
30.44912° or 30° 26′ 57″ east
Inception
July 2nd, 1976
Open location code
9G2GFCCX+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 239831638
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Wiki­data ID
Q48766
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Babi Yar monument” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Babin Jar”
  • Arabic: “بابي يار”
  • Armenian: “Բաբի Յառի կոտորածներ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Babi Yar”
  • Belarusian: “Бабін Яр”
  • Bengali: “বাবি ইয়ার”
  • 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: “Gedenkplaats voor het Bloedbad van Babi Jar”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Babyn-Jar-Denkmal”
  • 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”
  • Italian: “Monumento alle vittime del Nazismo”
  • 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”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Babi Yar”
  • Persian: “بابی یار”
  • Polish: “Babi Jar”
  • Portuguese: “Babi Yar”
  • Portuguese: “Massacre de kiev”
  • Romanian: “Babi Iar”
  • Russian: “Бабий Яр”
  • Russian: “Бабин яр”
  • Russian: “монумент «Бабий 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: “Бабин Яр”
  • Ukrainian: “меморіал «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”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Monument to Soviet soldiers and officers of the Soviet army executed by German fascists at Babiy Yar and National Historic Memorial Preserve ‘Babiy Yar’.

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