Irmino () is a city in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion (district), Luhansk Oblast (region), Ukraine. Irmino is located 55 km west of Luhansk. It is part of the agglomeration Alchevsk-Kadiivka, in Donbas. It is located on the banks of the river Luhan. The population is , .
Since the War in Donbas began in 2014, Irmino has been under the control of the Luhansk People's Republic. Following the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, the Luhansk People's Republic became a federal subject of Russia.
History Irmino was the first village of Petrovka/Petrivka () founded in 1808 on the right bank of the Luhan by peasants from the Poltava region and renamed Irminka in 1898, and later Irmyne () or Irmino () around 1910, after the coal mine named after Irma, daughter of the mine owner.
It was in Irmino, at the “Tsentralna-Irmino” mine, where Alexei Stakhanov had been working since 1927, that the legendary miner reportedly managed to extract of coal, i.e. 14 times the norm, on the night of 30–31 August 1935. At the time, the village of Irmino depended on Kadiivka, and Stakhanov's registration would have been made at the Tsentralna-Irmino mine in Kadiivka.
In 1936, the village achieved city status and took on the name Teplohirsk () in 1977. On 8 July 2010 the town was renamed Irmino after a local referendum. The name Irmino is based on the Russian language and does not conform with the norms of the Ukrainian language.
Name 1808–1900 — Petrivka, 1900–1962 — Irmyne/Irmino, 1977–2010 — Teplohirsk, since 2010 — Irmino
Demographics 1923 - 2,794 1926 - 5,276 1939 - 15,327 1959 - 21,512 1979 - 19,090 1989 - 18,549 2001 - 13,053 2012 - 10,200 2013 - 10,044 2014 - 9,886 2015 - 9,764 2016 - 9,687 2021 - 9,343
Transport Irmino is 116 km from Luhansk by rail and 75 km by road.
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