Irpin

Irpin is a city on the Irpin River in Bucha Raion of Kyiv Oblast, in northern Ukraine, lying directly beside the capital Kyiv. It grew around a railway station built in 1899 on the Kyiv to Kovel line, when railway workers founded the settlement together with neighbouring places such as Bucha and Vorzel, and it took its name from the river. Earlier villages such as Romanivka and Liubka stood on the site from the seventeenth century. In 1962 the Ukrainian SSR gave it oblast subordination and folded Bucha, Vorzel, Hostomel and Kotsiubynske into its limits, and in the 2020 administrative reform it became part of Bucha Raion. Irpin hosts the administration of the Irpin urban hromada. It was a battlefield in the 2022 Russian invasion, when about three quarters of the city was damaged, and it received the title Hero City of Ukraine on 24 March 2022. Its estimated population in 2022 was 65,167.