Mymrino (russian: Мы́мрино) is a rural locality (a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

) in Uzkinskoye Rural Settlement of Znamensky District, in

Oryol Oblast Oryol Oblast (russian: Орло́вская о́бласть, ''Orlovskaya oblast''), also known as Orlovshchina (russian: Орловщина) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Oryol. Populati ...

, Russia. Population:

History

Mymrino got its name from the nickname that the peasants gave to their landowner; they called her Mymra. It was first mentioned in 1678 as part of the Sevsky category of the Karachevsky district as an estate in the Khotiml camp. After the

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor, reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainia ...

, Mymrino was in the radiation zone of the fourth degree.

Notable people

Mymrino is the birthplace of politician

Gennady Zyuganov Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (russian: Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician, who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and served as M ...

References

Rural localities in Oryol Oblast Bolkhovsky Uyezd {{OryolOblast-geo-stub