Popiv Yar

English

Alternative forms

  • Popov Yar (Russian name)

Etymology

From Ukrainian По́пів Яр (Pópiv Jar).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pôʹpiv yärʹ, IPA(key): /ˈpɔːpiv ˈjɑː(ɹ)/

Proper noun

Popiv Yar

  1. A village in Illinivka rural hromada, Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned – then a khutir – in 1926, notable as the site in 2011 of archaeological excavations – Popov Yar-2 – of Zrubna tumuli which yielded a carved stone analemmatic sundial that proved to be the oldest such sundial ever discovered.

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