Pyry, Warsaw
Pyry | |
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Houses and the Wingert Lake in Pyry, in 2022. | |
Location of the City Information System area of Pyry, within the district of Ursynów in Warsaw. | |
| Coordinates: 52°07′46″N 21°01′04″E / 52.12944°N 21.01778°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 |
Pyry is a municipal neighbourhood, and a City Information System area, in Warsaw, Poland, within the district of Ursynów. It is a residential area, consisting of single-family housing.
Pyry was founded in the 18th century as a farming community. 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. The village was incorporated into Warsaw in 1951.