Malyn (, ) is a city in

Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast (), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna (), is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Zhytomyr. Its population is approximately H ...

(

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) of

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located about northwest of

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. It served as the administrative center of Malyn Raion until the administrative reform in 2020, when it was merged into

Korosten Raion Korosten Raion () is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine borde ...

. Population: Located in a wooded area of

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(literally woodland), the city is known for its paper factory and a sheet of paper is depicted on the city's coat of arms. The city is located on the Irsha river which is a left tributary of

Teteriv The Teteriv () is a right tributary of the Dnieper River in Ukraine. It has a length of and a drainage basin of . The Teteriv flows generally in northeastern direction through geographic regions of Podolian Upland, Dnieper Upland, and Polesia. T ...

. Through the city runs an important railroad

–

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and a motor vehicle highway Kyiv-

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. The town hosts a

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monitoring station (designated PS-45) belonging to an international network of nuclear test monitoring stations intended to verify the

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(CTBT) treaty.

History

The name of the city is traditionally connected with Prince Mal of the

Drevlians The Drevlians, Derevlians or Derevlianians ( or , ) were a tribe of East Slavs between the 6th and the 10th centuries, which inhabited the territories of Polesia and right-bank Ukraine, west of the Polans (eastern), eastern Polans and along the ...

mentioned in the Russian chronicles, particularly during the Drevlian uprising of 945 against Igor, the Grand Prince of Kyiv. Malyn was mentioned as a possession of nobleman Hryńko Wnuczkiewicz during the rule of

Alexander Jagiellon Alexander Jagiellon (; ; 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506. He was the fourth son of Casimir IV and a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty. Alexander was el ...

at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. After his death, it passed to the Jelec family. Malin was administratively located in the

Kijów Voivodeship The Kiev Voivodeship (; ; ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793, as part of Lesser Poland Province of ...

in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. In the 18th century, it passed to noblewoman Anna Krasicka née Starzechowska, mother of leading

Polish Enlightenment The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland were developed later than in Western Europe, as the Polish bourgeoisie was weaker, and szlachta (nobility) culture (Sarmatism) together with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth political system (Gol ...

poet

Ignacy Krasicki Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki (3 February 173514 March 1801), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia (in German, ''Ermland'') and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno (thus, Primate of Poland), was Poland's leading Polish Enlightenment, Enlightenment ...

, and the Krasickis sold it to Stanisław Kordysz, who erected a new Catholic church in 1780. Following the

Second Partition of Poland The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of partitions of Poland, three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The second partition (politics), partition occurred i ...

, the town was annexed by

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in 1793. In 1801 it passed to the Morzkowski family, and afterwards to the

Radziwiłł family The House of Radziwiłł (; ; ; ) is a Polish princely family of Lithuanian origin, and one of the most powerful magnate families originating from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later also prominent in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. Pa ...

. Malyn is a small homeland of Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, an Imperial Russian traveler, for whom Malyn served a residence to the maternal side of his family. A

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and a

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were founded in 1873 and 1877, respectively. On 27–28 April 1920, it was the site of a battle in which the Poles defeated the Russians and liberated the town during the Kyiv offensive and

Polish–Soviet War The Polish–Soviet War (14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the Russian Revolution. After the collapse ...

. During

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, Malyn was under

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occupation from 29 July 1941 until 12 November 1943. It was administered as a part of the

Reichskommissariat Ukraine The ''Reichskommissariat Ukraine'' (RKU; ) was an administrative entity of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. It served as the German civilian occupation regime in the Ukrainian SSR, and ...

. On March 3, 1975, the village of Horodyshche of the Ukrainian Village Council and the southwestern part of the village of Malynivka of the Malynivka Village Council of the Malyn district were included in the city of Malyn. At least five people were killed in Malyn in the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

. On February 27, 2022, a Bayraktar drone downed a Russian Buk near Malyn. On March 7, 2022, Russians shelled the town, destroying a two-story building and 3 cars. It is known that one person was killed and 3 others were injured. The Church of St. Michael of the Odesa Diocese of the UOC (MP), located in the city center at 3 Soborna Square, was also destroyed. On May 20, 2022, according to the mayor of Malyn, Oleksandr Sytailo, 3 people were injured and 100 houses were damaged by rocket fire in the town.

Demographics

Distribution of the population by ethnicity according to the 2001 census:

Sports

FC Papirnyk Malyn is a Ukrainian football team based in Malyn.

Gallery

File:Malyn 08.jpg, Central square File:Malyn 02.jpg, House of culture File:Malyn 01.jpg, Historic building File:Вокзал зал.станції Малин.jpg, Malyn railway station

Notable people

* Vladyslav Gorai, Ukrainian opera singer (tenor) * Batia Lishansky, Israeli sculptor * Rayisa Nedashkivska, Soviet-Ukrainian theater and cinema actress * David Nowakowsky, composer *

Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi (; May 1886 – 16 November 1979) was an Israeli author and educator, and a leading Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist. Ben-Zvi was the wife of the second President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. Biography Rachel Yanait was born Gold ...

, Israeli author and educator * Yuriy Karpenko, Ukrainian linguist, doctor of philology * Dmytro Kozatskyi, Ukrainian photographer, serviceman, senior soldier * Volodymyr Vaisblat, Ukrainian-Jewish scriptwriter and dramaturge, co-founder of the Ukrainian State Publishing, son of the Kyiv Head Rabbi Nykhim Vaisblat * Volodymir Satsyuk, former deputy head of

’s intelligence agency, a suspect in president Yushchenko's poisoning.

References

External links

Malyn site (unofficial)

Malyn region site (official)

City portal (unofficial)

Malyn website (unofficial)

Find out Malyn @ Ukrainian Travel

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