The destroyed building of the Mykolaiv Regional Council will be transferred to the balance sheet of the RMA Architecture Department for dismantling

The building of the Mykolaiv Regional Council destroyed by a Russian airstrike will be handed over to the Department of Architecture of the Mykolaiv Oblast to dismantle it.

The relevant draft decision is published on the Mykolaiv Regional Council website.

As you know, on the morning of March 29, 2022, the Russian military hit the nine-story building of Mykolayiv RMA with a rocket. As a result, its central section from the ninth to the first floor was destroyed. As a result of the impact, 38 people died. The RMA published a list of the dead.

During 2022, various options were discussed regarding further actions regarding the destroyed building of Mykolaiv RMA. In particular, the issue of leaving the building as a monument, a reminder of the terrible crimes of the occupiers, was considered. Also, the team of architects of the Loft Buro studio proposed three options for the reconstruction of the building. The concept was to preserve the surviving walls and combine them with a new insert in place of the destroyed part.

In March 2023, in the course of the working group for the development of the Mykolaiv Comprehensive Recovery Program, a decision was made that the building of the Mykolaiv Regional Council should be dismantled.

«This is the only object included in the proposals, which is planned to be dismantled. In 2022, a decision was made to write off the building and further dismantle it. We are currently looking for funds to finance these works,» said Petro Danko, the head of the Department of Urban Development Planning, Department of Urban Planning, Architecture, Capital Construction and Support of Development Projects of RMA.

The official also noted that the experts' report refers to complete dismantling, because the structure of the Mykolayiv RMA building is unstable and it will be technically difficult to protect people from the debris. Only during disassembly will it be possible to say whether it will be possible to leave at least part of it.

Therefore, at the session of the Mykolaiv Regional Council, which is scheduled for December 14, a decision is made to transfer the administrative building of the Mykolaiv Regional Council to the Department of Urban Planning, Architecture, Capital Construction and Support of Development Projects of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration.

The Department of Architecture of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration must accept the property and organize the dismantling of the object within a month.

«Within a month, take measures regarding the acceptance of real estate of the Mykolaiv Regional Council, including the creation of a commission for the acceptance and transfer of property, etc.,» the draft decision states.

After completion of the dismantling work, the architecture department must prepare and submit a corresponding report to the regional council.

We will remind that the vice-governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast Valentyn Haidarzhi previously noted that the State Administration building destroyed by a Russian missile attack should be demolished, because the reconstruction of the State Administration building will cost more than a new construction.

Also, the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitaly Kim, said that the RSA building, which was destroyed in March by the shelling of the Russian army cannot be restored.

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