Imielin, Warsaw
Imielin | |
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The apartment buildings at Indiry Gandhi Street. | |
Interactive map of Imielin | |
| Coordinates: 52°08′58″N 21°02′21″E / 52.14944°N 21.03917°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Masovian |
| City and county | Warsaw |
| District | Ursynów |
| City Information System areas | |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +48 22 |
Imielin (Polish: [iˈmjɛ.lin]) is a neighbourhood in Warsaw, Poland, within the district of Ursynów. It consists of two housing estates composed of apartment buildings, West Ursynów and Imielin. The neighbourhood is divided into two City Information System areas, Stary Imielin and Ursynów-Centrum. The neighbourhood has several medical facilities, including Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, the Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, and the Southern Hospital. It also has Imielin station of the M1 line of the Warsaw Metro rapit transit system.
The oldest known records of the village of Imielin come from 1422. It was incorporated into Warsaw in 1951. Between 1976 and 1981, two housing estates, West Ursynów and Imielin, were developed in the area, consisting of apartment buildings. Between 1979 and 1997, the medical complex of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology was built within the neighbourhood. In 1995, it was connected to the Warsaw Metro network.