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Stary Imielin, Warsaw — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Stary Imielin, also called West Ursynów, is a high-rise part of Warsaw holding the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology.
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Where to stay in Stary Imielin
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
High-rise blocks make up most addresses. Stary Imielin was built as housing, and the rooms available in it are flats rather than hotel stock, which suits anyone whose reason for coming is an appointment at the Southern Hospital or one of the research institutes. The Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology and the Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine sit within the same area, which is what makes this corner of Ursynów a practical base rather than a scenic one.
West Ursynów is the other name for it.
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Stary Imielin keeps the Southern Hospital and the Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine among its high-rise blocks, which cuts the morning journey to almost nothing. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in Stary Imielinthe oncology institute end of Stary ImielinWest Ursynów
West Ursynów is the second name for Stary Imielin, and the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology is the address it is best known by. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in West Ursynówwider room supply with the medical institutes a short ride offUrsynów
The rest of the Ursynów district carries the hotels that Stary Imielin does not, near enough to keep the Southern Hospital within an easy run.Find hotels in UrsynówHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Stary Imielin
What are the main landmarks in Stary Imielin?
No monument is listed here. The buildings that matter are medical, beginning with the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, whose grounds sit among the high-rise blocks of Stary Imielin. The Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine and the Southern Hospital complete the group, and the three of them give the area its working character.
Nothing older is on the register.
What is the history of Stary Imielin?
Two names, one area. Stary Imielin carries a second name, West Ursynów, and the record gives no founding year for either, which leaves the high-rise building and the medical institutions as the whole of what can be said about how the place took shape. The Southern Hospital, the Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine and the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology are the institutions the area is described by, all of them inside Warsaw.
Beyond the hospital campuses, Stary Imielin is residential.
Where is Stary Imielin?
Stary Imielin fills a high-rise stretch of the Ursynów district in Warsaw, with several medical institutions set among the towers.
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What is the best area to stay in Stary Imielin?
Stary Imielin: an appointment at the Southern Hospital without a long ride. West Ursynów: the oncology institute end of Stary Imielin. Ursynów: wider room supply with the medical institutes a short ride off.
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Updated September 2026