Babi Yar

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Ba·bi Yar

(bä′bē yär′, bä′byē)

A ravine outside Kiev in north-central Ukraine where over 30,000 Jews were killed by German troops in 1941.

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Mark writes to his parents that he visited Babyn Yar and that "[e]veryone knows that before the Germans withdrew from Kyiv[sic] from 1941 to 1943, [sic] they had executed 100,000 people there.

Orest Talpash. Rybalski's Son

In March 2006, 7 such affiliates, out of approximately 50 across the country, were closed because of unspecified licensing violations; 30 more were closed before the September 27, 2006, commemoration of the Babyn Yar massacre, at which President Yushchenko criticized ethnic intolerance and religious hostility in the country.

Ukraine

They also reflect Ukrainian history, both contemporary-Chernobyl--and past--the 2933 famine, the five hundredth anniversary of the destruction of the Ukrainian cossack Sich Fort, and the massacre at Babyn Yar.