Thread by @AKamyshin

Another beautiful and touching story is accomplished. #IronVillage in #Irpin officially closed today.

Danger: 🧵

Hoow it started. #Irpin had 7000 people whose houses were damaged or destroyed. City mayor @markushyn asked @Ukrzaliznytsia to help his people with temporary housing. And we are always happy to support such stories, even if that's not about our core business.

In 2 weeks we established 5 railway carriages for temporary housing in #Irpin. We paid pretty much attention to minor details. We wanted to give our residents a decent living space. Otherwise we wouldn’t give this village our trademark #iron label :)

We were sure that our #IronVillage must be #green.

We put there several #bikes to give people #mobility freedom. It’s 5 min by bike to the nearest railway station. And 20 min to Kyiv downtown by our city train #KyivCityExpress. I believe in bike+train mobility.

And @smelyansky_igor opened there official @ukrposhta post office box. So people could send and receive mail correspondence right at the #IronVillage. I believe that those who lost their houses should have exactly same life as others. That’s part of our #BarrierFree confession.

Kids loved our #IronVillage :)

On weekends we had morning exercises for the whole #IronVillage with famous Ukrainian tv and sport star @pedan_s.

Our residents had free #Starlink wifi and book corner.

Different creativity classes never left our residents bored.

Best beauty service providers where proud to serve our residents pro bono.

Outdoor cinema was so cozy in the evenings. However, only movies about trains where allowed. Joking :)

And all residents got free daily delivered meals from our partners from @WCKitchen. Our #SupervisoryBoard tested those meals one day and found them delicious! Thanks, @chefjoseandres and all your team.

Sometimes mobile pizza trucks arrived at our #IronVillage and shared fresh pizza with our residents.

And one day famous Ukrainian @ChefBravo gave a cooking class for our residents. It was incredible.

And yes, our #IronVillage was #PetsFriendly. Somehow dogs and cats got along with the rat. I had a special story with this rat. @georg_ismar knows it, but promised to keep it secret.

What happened today? We moved our residents to stationary houses, provided by the city mayor and the Polish government #PolskaPomoc. They would be much better there in the winter. From day one we understood that our #IronVillage is a temporary story and must end one day.

We visited our residents in their new village today, had small farewell party and exchanged our memories about our #IronVillage. Was happy to see our residents in their new home. Also temporary so far, but better established for the winter.

The rat moved as well. Had a lovely time with my friend. You can be proud of me, @georg_ismar :)

Our #IronVillage would never happen without the personal touch of @Pertsovskyi_O and Andriy Bukin. And the great team of #IronPeople of course :)

Will always remember watering the grass early mornings there. Loved that. #IronVillage is over in #Irpin. But would always live in our hearts. ❤️