Babyn Yar, Kyiv
On 29–30 September 1941 the Nazis shot 33,771 people here; over two years of occupation — 70 to 150 thousand.
On 29–30 September 1941 the Nazis — Sonderkommando 4a and the "South" police regiments — shot the Jewish population of Kyiv at Babyn Yar: by the Einsatzgruppe's report, 33,771 people in two days. The shootings continued until September 1943: Jews, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, political prisoners, priests, Ukrainian nationalists; the reserve's overall estimates are 70 to 150 thousand dead, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance gives about 100,000. The monument to Soviet citizens and prisoners of war was unveiled in 1976, the "Menorah" in 1991, the monument to children in 2001; the reserve was created on 1 March 2007, national status followed on 24 February 2010. On 1 March 2022 russian missiles struck the television tower next door — 20–30 metres from the execution sites — killing five people.
44 Yuriia Illienka Street. The memorial park is open around the clock; the reserve's tours are free, by the schedule on its website.