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Katyn
Sign in to saverural locality (selo) in Smolensky District of Smolensk Oblast in central Russia
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Place details
- Locality
- Катынь
- Region
- Смоленская область
- Country
- Россия
- Population
- 1,737
- Timezone
- Europe/Moscow
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Smolensk Oblast
- Elevation
- 167 m (548 ft)
- Estimate 2002
- 1,737 )
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( MSK )
- Dialing code
- +7 481
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- administrative divisions of Russia
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Smolensky District
- Population
- 1737
- Area
- 27.94
- Elevation
- 167
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Trzy krzyze.jpg
- Dialing code
- 481
- Significant event
- Katyn massacre
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- Commons category
- Katyn
- postal code
- 214522
- topic's main category
- Category:Katyn
- different from
- Khatyn
- native label
- Катынь
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Encyclopedic overview
Katyn (Russian: Кáтынь [ˈkatɨnʲ]; Polish: Katyń [ˈkatɨɲ]) is a rural locality (a selo) in Smolensky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located approximately 20 kilometers (12 mi) to the west of Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast. The village had a population of 1,737 in 2007.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Katyn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.