Pyry, Warsaw
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This article is about a neighbourhood in Warsaw, Poland. For other uses, see Pyry.
Pyry[lower-alpha 1] is a municipal neighbourhood, and a City Information System area, in Warsaw, Poland, within the district of Ursynów.[1][2][3] It is a residencial area, consisting of single-family housing.[4]
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Pyry | |
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Coordinates: 52°07′46″N 21°01′04″E | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | Masovian |
City and county | Warsaw |
District | Ursynów |
Area | |
• Total | 1.98 km2 (0.76 sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code | +48 22 |
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Pyry was founded in the 18th century as a farming community.[1][5] In the late 1930s, there was constructed the military complex if the Cipher Bureau, in which, from 1937 to 1939, Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski worked on developing the decryption techniques of the Enigma machine used by the Nazi Germany.[6][7] The village was incorporated into Warsaw in 1951.[8]