Irpin, Ukraine with Ukrainian flag T-Shirt

Irpin (Ukrainian: Ірпі́нь), or Irpen (Russian: Ирпе́нь) is a city located on the Irpin River in Kiev Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The city's population is 40,275. The city houses a railway station, built in 1899.[citation needed] From 2003, the "Irpen Film Festival" for alternative cinematography takes place every year. Famous Soviet writer Nikolay Nosov spent his childhood in this city. The famous Ukrainian photographer Yuri Kosin works in Irpin. On December 30, 1962, the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR issued a decree changing the status of Irpin to that of a "city of oblast subordinance," thus being directly subordinate to the oblast authorities rather than the city administration housed within the city. Also mentioned within the decree were the inclusion of the urban-type settlements of Bucha (a city since 2007), Vorzel, Hostomel, and Kotsiubynske within the city limits.