The ruins of the destroyed Korabelnyi Palace of Culture in Mykolaiv were turned into building materials

The dismantled part of the Korabelny Palace of Culture in Mykolaiv. Photo: Korabeliv.Info

In Mykolaiv, the dismantled part of the destroyed Korabelnyi Palace of Culture building was recycled at a waste processing site. The debris from the building structures was sorted and recycled into secondary building materials — crushed stone, sand, gravel and screenings.

This is discussed in the NikVesti article War waste: can the plant in Mykolaiv keep up with the scale of destruction?

Specialised equipment provided to the city by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), as well as support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is being used for the recycling.

According to Vitalii Shevchenko, director of the municipal enterprise ELU Avtodorig, a contractor hired by UNDP dismantled part of the building and delivered the debris to the processing site.

The dismantled part of the Korabelny Cultural Centre in Mykolaiv. Photo: Korabeliv.Info

The dismantled part of the Korabelny Cultural Centre in Mykolaiv. Photo: Korabeliv.Info

«We sorted the debris from the demolition: we separated the stones and rubbish. We left behind anything that could be recycled into gravel, screenings and sand. Anything that cannot be recycled is taken to the municipal landfill,» he explained.

The building was dismantled by the contractor Energetychno-Dorozhne Budivnytstvo LLC. Some of the debris was not taken away as rubbish but used for secondary processing, which reduces the load on the city landfill and partially offsets the cost of waste disposal.

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The palace of culture was hit on 5 July 2022. As a result of shelling by the Russian army, one part of the palace was destroyed.

In March 2023, Yurii Liubarov, head of the city council's culture department, announced that the city authorities were considering several options for restoring the Korabelnyi Palace of Culture. One of the options considered by the Mykolaiv authorities was to demolish the old building and construct a new palace of culture.

Later, Ukrainian architect Olena Hordynska, in collaboration with the Italian bureau Altereco, presented one of the possible options for rebuilding the Korabelnyi Palace of Culture. In the project , the architect proposed transforming the destroyed Palace of Culture into the Korabel Cultural Park.

The institution resumed its activities in September 2023 after the arrival of a Russian missile. The Palace of Culture had been operating for almost five months before the incident that occurred on the evening of 22 January. A fire covering an area of 30 square metres broke out in the attic.

The fire at the Korabelnyi Palace of Culture in Mykolaiv put an end to the institution's work. The management assumed that it was arson.

Read also the article: «It will be painful to say goodbye, but we are ready». What awaits the bombed-out building of the Korabelnyi Palace of Culture in Mykolaiv.

In a comment to NikVesti in December 2024, the capital construction department said that it had ordered a technical inspection of the Korabelnyi Palace of Culture in Mykolaiv, which had been damaged by a rocket strike. The inspection showed that the building could be restored without complete demolition. As of January 2026, the destroyed part of the Korabelnyi Palace of Culture had been demolished.