Pyry is one of the southernmost neighborhoods of the city of

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

. Administratively part of the

Ursynów Ursynów () is the southernmost district of Warsaw. With a surface area of , it is the third largest district in Warsaw, comprising 8.6% of the city. The district has a population of over 150,000, and is one of the fastest-growing neighbourhoods ...

district, it was originally a separate village located along '' ulica Puławska'' (

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Street), which links Warsaw with the town of

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. To the east, Pyry borders on the

Kabaty Woods The Stefan Starzyński Kabaty Woods Nature Reserve ( pl, Rezerwat przyrody Las Kabacki im. Stefana Starzyńskiego) is a woodland park located in southern Warsaw, between two major arteries, Puławska and Łukasz Drewny Streets. Administratively ...

. Founded probably in the 14th century as a property of the Służewski family (of the

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), the village retained much of its rural character until the 1990s, most of its inhabitants being farmers or workers at Warsaw factories. However, since then it has been a reserve of available space for new residential areas, mostly single-family houses for upper-middle-class Varsovians. Before

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, Pyry was also the seat of the

Polish General Staff Polish General Staff, formally known as the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (Polish: ''Sztab Generalny Wojska Polskiego'') is the highest professional body within the Polish Armed Forces. Organizationally, it is an integral part of the Min ...

's Cipher Bureau, the agency that before the war was the only one in the world to break the German

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(beginning in December 1932).

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Neighbourhoods of Warsaw Cipher Bureau (Poland) {{Neighbourhoods of Ursynów

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