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Pyriatyn

Пирятин
Pyriatyn Пирятин
City
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	Coordinates: 50°15′N 32°32′E / 50.250°N 32.533°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Poltava Oblast
Raion	Lubny Raion
Hromada	Pyriatyn urban hromada
Population (2022)
• Total	14,988

Pyriatyn (Ukrainian: Пирятин, pronounced [pɪˈrʲɑtɪn]) is a city in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of Pyriatyn Raion until its abolishment in 2020. Population: 14,988 (2022 estimate).^[1]

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.^[2]

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:^[3]

Language	Percentage
Ukrainian	93.41%
Russian	6.27%
other/undecided	0.32%

Geography

The city of Pyriatyn is located on the right bank of the Udai River. 1 km upstream are the villages of Verkhoiarivka, Yivzhenky and Zamostyshche, downstream at a distance of 3 km is the village of Mala Krucha. The river in this place is winding and forms estuaries, old lakes and marshy lakes. Highways E40 (M03), T 2501 and P60, railway and Pyriatyn station pass nearby.^[4]