₴1 million allocated for restoring Mykolaiv Executive Committee basement to create a shelter in 2025

The building of the executive committee of the Mykolaiv City Council, archive photo NikVesti

Next year, they plan to spend 1 million hryvnias on developing a project to restore the basement of the Mykolaiv City Council Executive Committee building. They are also planning to build a shelter there.

This is evidenced by data from materials for the draft budget of Mykolaiv for 2025, NikVesti reports.

It is noted that the executive committee building is an architectural monument of local importance. The restoration project for the building's basement and its expertise are planned to be received in 2025.

The situation with shelters in Mykolaiv

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Only 7% of shelters in Mykolaiv are open. At the same time, there is a problem with the accessibility of shelters — there is no ramp or gentle descent. In April 2024, during an air raid, Mykolaiv residents were unable to get to the shelter on the territory of the children's town «Kazka» because it was closed. The administration of the children's town conducted an internal investigation into this fact.

This is not the first situation with shelters closed during an air raid in Mykolaiv. Shelters in the Matviivka neighborhood, in the Tsentralnyi district of the city, and in Yunist Park were also closed during the strikes on Mykolaiv on March 17. After these incidents, the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, urged residents to call the police if a shelter or storage facility is locked during an air raid.

In general, Mykolaiv ended up on the list of regions with the worst condition of shelters. After checking the condition of shelters throughout Ukraine, the National Security and Defense Council recognized the work on the readiness of shelters for use in a number of regions and cities, in particular Mykolaiv, as unsatisfactory. After which the city mayor dismissed the head of the Department for Emergencies and Civil Protection of the Population, Oleksandr Herasymenia. And the first deputy mayor, Vitalii Lukov, received a reprimand.

The head of the Mykolaiv RMA, Vitalii Kim, clarified that 69% of the abandoned shelters in the region are in Mykolaiv. At the same time, almost half of the city's residents (47%) assessed the condition of bomb shelters in the city as terrible or bad.

Back in May 2023, over 70 million hryvnias were allocated from the Mykolaiv budget for the repair and equipping of shelters. However, it turned out that the city budget would not receive funds from the 102 million hryvnias that the state allocated for the repair of shelters in schools and kindergartens in the region. And at the end of August 2023, the head of the RMA Vitalii Kim said that he was dissatisfied with the shelters in the region's schools.

The head of the education department of the Mykolaiv City Council, Hanna Lychko, reported that the city is repairing shelters in 21 schools, and another 9 are at the planning stage. At the same time, the city council stated that by the end of 2023, the housing and communal services department plans to repair 18 of the simplest shelters.

In October 2023, NikVesti reported that the architecture department of the Mykolaiv Regional Administrative Organization concluded 27 direct contracts for the development of design and estimate documentation and major repairs of budgetary institutions with the firm «Architectural Bureau — Wave 89», which has existed for less than six months and is owned by a member of the regional public council on restoration issues. Later, the Mykolaiv Regional Administrative Organization explained that direct contracts for the design of shelters with this firm allowed saving the budget.

Read the articles NikVesti:

• «Renovation at the end of the year: who got contracts for shelters in Mykolaiv without a competition»
• «Either two walls, or go outside.» Why haven't the authorities in Yuzhnoukrainsk built a single shelter for the community in over two years of war?»

In August 2024, the government allocated about 5 billion hryvnias from the budget for shelters in schools in eight regions, including the Mykolaiv region.

Mykolaiv region was among the five regions that showed the best indicators in increasing and bringing shelters to readiness in 2024.