During the Great War, a communal enterprise engaged in landscaping in Mykolaiv purchased machinery for ₴35 million

New equipment of Mykolaiv Parks, photo by NikVesti

During the two and a half years of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Mykolaiv Parks communal enterprise, which is engaged in tree trimming and landscaping in cities, updated its equipment for 35 million hryvnias.

Most of it was purchased at the expense of the city budget, according to the article NikVesti «How does the communal enterprise Parks green Mykolaiv during the war?».

Even before the full-scale invasion, as of January 2022, the utility company had only one specialized machine, says director Dmytro Chuchmai. As of today, the number of special equipment has increased to 52 units.

«Today, the enterprise has 52 units of special road machinery, more than 200 units of small mechanization equipment, i.e. scythes, saws, crushers, and more. That is, it is a difference of two and a half years. 52 units today — one two and a half years ago, said the director of Mykolaiv Parks,» Dmytro Chuchmai.

In general, all available equipment of the enterprise today costs about 30-35 million hryvnias. Most of this money is from the city budget, he added.

«We also cooperated with our international partners. These are France, Germany, Denmark. They provided us with humanitarian aid. We received special equipment from them: truck towers, crushers, etc.,» added Dmytro Chuchmai.

It was previously reported that the Mykolaiv Parks utility company plans to purchase five units of specialized cleaning equipment.

As a reminder, the financing of the Mykolaiv Parks utility company has grown significantly over the past five years — from 8.6 million hryvnias in 2020 to 167.2 million hryvnias in 2023. This year's budget of the enterprise is 144 million hryvnias, which is slightly less than in the previous year.

At the same time, as of August 2024, there are 262 full-time employees at the Mykolaiv Parks utility company. This is six times more than in 2021, when this indicator was 39 people.

The sports ground, which the municipal enterprise Mykolaiv Parks has begun to equip on the territory of the park on Flotskyi Boulevard near the Chess Club, will cost the city budget 6.8 million hryvnias.

Pruning trees in Mykolaiv

Cut down trees in Peremoha park in Mykolaiv, photo 

At the beginning of February 2024, ecologists asked the city authorities to develop a program of rules for the care of green spaces in Mykolaiv. It should be noted that currently the concept of the development of green zones has not been developed in Mykolaiv, and the inventory of plantations was last carried out in 2018.

As you know, various promotions are currently being announced for planting trees in Mykolaiv. For example, young pines were planted in Victory Park in October 2023, and lindens were planted along Tsentralnyi Avenue in December.

Before that, in March 2022, the mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych announced that poplars would be cut down in Mykolaiv to build dugouts and heat people at roadblocks. Later, the director of the housing and communal services department of the city council, Dmytro Bezdolnyi, clarified that the felled poplars were used not only for fortifications, but also for heating social institutions and hospitals.

Already in May 2023, the municipal enterprise Mykolaiv Parks ordered for 5 million hryvnias services for tree removal, sanitary and rejuvenating pruning of trees, uprooting of stumps and planting trees on the territory of the city. It was about planting 50 young maples. Then the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, asked the townspeople whether it is worth buying seedlings of trees and bushes.

Later, the KP Mykolaiv Parks explained the necessity of pruning the sycamores on Soborna, which the people of Mykolaiv called «vandalism».

Read the article NikVesti «Don`t leave chop. Part 1: how Mykolaiv loses thousands of trees every year».

And also the article NikVesti «Don`t leave chop. Part 2: why Mykolaiv forgot about greening strategy and climate change».