Piatykhatky, Kharkiv Oblast

Piatykhatky (Ukrainian: П'ятихатки; Russian: Пятихатки) is a former khutir, now a neighborhood within the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. The neighborhood is part of the city Kyivskyi District of Kharkiv.

Located near the mass burial site of KGB massacres of then Soviet citizens in the late 1930s, and Polish military officers who were Soviet prisoners of war in 1940.

In the 1950s, it became part of the city of Kharkiv, when construction of the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, "New Matter", and Piatyhatky became incorporated into the city.

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