Pivdenne (; ) is a small city in

Kharkiv Raion Kharkiv Raion () is a raion (district) of Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center is the city of Kharkiv. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of rai ...

, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. It was founded in 1906 and was originally named Yuzhny (, ). It hosts the administration of

Pivdenne urban hromada Pivdenne urban hromada () is a hromada in Odesa Raion of Odesa Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. Population: The hromada consists of a city of Pivdenne, a rural settlement Novi Biliari and 5 villages: * Biliari * Buldynka * Hryhorivka Hryhorivk ...

. Population: The linguist

Yuri Knorozov Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (; 19 November 192230 March 1999) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigraphist, and ethnologist. He is best known for the key role he played in the decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system of the Maya ci ...

, who played a key role in the

decipherment In philology and linguistics, decipherment is the discovery of the meaning of the symbols found in extinct languages and/or alphabets. Decipherment is possible with respect to languages and scripts. One can also study or try to decipher how spok ...

of the

Maya script Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, is historically the native writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered. The earliest inscriptions found which ...

, grew up in Yuzhny. He lived in a house built by his father on Karl Marx Street.

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Cities in Kharkiv Oblast Kharkov Governorate Cities of district significance in Ukraine * {{Kharkiv-geo-stub