Osypenko, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

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Osypenko is a village in Berdiansk District, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, southern Ukraine. It sits on the left bank of the Berda River and is the administrative center of Osypenko rural hromada. The village has about 4,667 residents.

It was founded in 1805 as Novospasivka by runaway serfs from the Poltava region. By the 1860s, around 3,182 people lived there. During the Ukrainian Civil War, Novospasivka was a key center for the Makhnovshchina anarchist movement and changed hands several times before Bolshevik control.

In 1923 it became part of Berdiansk Okruha in the Ukrainian SSR and later moved between different administrative regions. The Holodomor famine of 1932–1933 caused many deaths in the village. In 1939, Novospasivka was renamed Osypenko in honor of pilot Polina Osipenko, who was born there.

During World War II, Nazi Germany occupied Osypenko from 1941 to 1943. A ceramics factory opened in 1973 to make building materials. In 2016, Osypenko joined the Osypenko rural hromada. At the start of the 2022 Russian invasion, the village was occupied by Russian forces.