Zlynka (Russian: Злы́нка) is a town and the administrative center of Zlynkovsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Zlynka River 225 kilometers (140 mi) southwest of Bryansk, the administrative center of the oblast, and close to the border with Belarus.

[9] Historically, the territory at various times formed part of Lithuania, Muscovy, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia.

The liquidation of the ghetto took place in mid-February 1942, when between 190 and 200 Jews were most likely shot by local policemen who fired with pistols.

[4] As a result of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with radionuclides (mainly Gordeyevsky, Klimovsky, Klintsovsky, Krasnogorsky, Surazhsky, and Novozybkovsky Districts).

In 1999, some 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Curie/km2, representing approximately 16% of the oblast's population.