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Babi Yar is the name of a ravine situated in the city of Kiev, Ukraine. It is the site of a mass murder. First, the Stalinist purges of Kievites in late 1930s. Later, the murder of the Jewish population by German paramilitary execution squads during World War II.
According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, 33,771 Jews were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 and September 30, 1941: systematically shot dead by machine gun fire.
The massacre inspired a poem written by a Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko which was set to music by Dmitri Shostakovich in his Symphony No. 13.
Unlike German, Soviet documents regarding 1930s executions are either destroyed or still not disclosed by government of Russia.
To reach this park, take the metro to the Dorohozhychi station http://www.metro.kiev.ua/
Reference: Babi Yar, ISBN 0-671-45135-9 (c) 1970 Jonathan Cape Ltd by A. Anatoli (Kuznetsov), translated by David Floyd
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