diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ignite/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ignite/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1ded86af3fb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ignite/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, pytest
+, mock
+, pytorch
+, pynvml
+, scikitlearn
+, tqdm
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "ignite";
+  version = "0.2.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "pytorch";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "15k6dd11yxn4923llcpmw4srl1by5ljhh7aw5pnkn4n4qpywh6cm";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [ pytest mock ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    pytest -k 'not visdom and not tensorboard and not mlflow and not polyaxon' tests/
+  '';
+  # these packages are not currently in nixpkgs
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pytorch scikitlearn tqdm pynvml ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "High-level training library for PyTorch";
+    homepage = https://pytorch.org/ignite;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.bcdarwin ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 438eb0e43ad3..9658528b3b3d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -761,6 +761,8 @@ in {
 
   i3ipc = callPackage ../development/python-modules/i3ipc { };
 
+  ignite = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ignite { };
+
   ihatemoney = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ihatemoney { };
 
   imutils = callPackage ../development/python-modules/imutils { };