Pyry, Warsaw

Pyry (Polish: [ˈpɘ̟.rɘ̟] ) is a neighbourhood, and a City Information System area, in Warsaw, Poland, within the Ursynów district. It is a residential area with single-family housing. The neighbourhood is governed by an elected council, and has an area of 1.98 km2 (0.76 sq mi). It features the Sts. Apostles Peter and Paul Church at 434 Puławska Street, which was built between 1946 and 1973, and belongs to the Catholic denomination. Pyry was founded in the 18th century as a farming community. In the late 1930s, there was constructed the military complex of 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.