Myropillia, Sumy Oblast

Myropillia (Миропілля, ) is a village in Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Myropillia rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is 2,873 (as of 2001).

History
Myropillia was established around 1650 by immigrants from Volhynia. According to local legend, the settlement was named for a local river known as the Myrna Pilka, which dried up around the time of alleged 15th- and 16th-century settlement. Myropillia was granted the status of a city in 1670, and had Myropillia Sotnia within the Sumy Regiment of the Cossack Hetmanate. By the beginning of the 20th century, Myropillia had a population of nearly 20,000, but much of them either perished or left as a result of collectivisation, the Holodomor, and World War II.

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Myropillia's location five kilometres from the Russia–Ukraine border has led to significant problems for the village. Village infrastructure has been repeatedly attacked by Russian forces, and, according to local activist Tetiana Nahulova, as much as 60% of the population has fled.

Demographics
According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, Myropillia has a population of 2,873. 95.61% of respondents to the 2001 census in Myropillia stated that their native language was Ukrainian. Of the remainder, 4.07% stated that their native language was Russian, 0.17% said that their native language was Armenian, and 0.03% each answered that their native language was Belarusian, Moldovan (Romanian), or German.

Notable people

 * Anna Hidora, painter.
 * Borys Lazariev, physicist.
 * Kost Moshchenko, museologist, ethnographer, painter, architect, and historian.
 * Hnat Mykhailychenko, member of the Central Rada.
 * Vitalii Piddubnyi, soldier of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine killed during the War in Donbas.
 * Ivan Povkh, water turbine physicist.
 * Ahapii Shamrai, literary historian.
 * Anatolii Taran, poet and journalist.
 * Ivan Yeremenko, educator.