Rector Trushliakov spoke out against the name «UKroP», which was announced by the Ministry of Education: «NUK residents will never agree to such a thing»

Rector of NUK Yevhen Truslyakov

The Rector of Admiral Makarov National Shipbuilding University, Yevhen Trushliakov, expressed his displeasure with the proposed name «UKRoP» for the new educational institution, which will unite the university headed by him and Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi National University.

Commenting on this initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on Facebook, Yevhen Trushliakov said that the appropriate name was never discussed in the university team.

The rector emphasized that this decision does not reflect the opinion and position of students and teachers of the National Shipbuilding University.

«The news on the MESU website is not an official release of the CMU, but the personal point of view of the ministry's press service or one of its officials. Such a name was not even discussed. The NKI-NUKians will never agree with such a thing,» wrote Yevhen Trushliakov.

Language ombudsman Taras Kremin also expressed his disagreement with the use of the name «UKRoP».

«The University of Shipbuilding and Development of the South of Ukraine will be created in my native Mykolaiv. It is abbreviated as UKROP, but such a frivolous name and, accordingly, there will definitely not be an abbreviation,» wrote Taras Kremin.

We will remind you that earlier the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitalii Kim, expressed the opinion that one of the universities that suffered from Russian shelling should be closed or reorganized and attached to a more effective one.

At that time, Mykolaiv Sukhomlynskyi University reacted to the statement of the head of Mykolaiv RMA. Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences Professor Svitlana Yakymenko expressed the opinion that the educational institution should not be closed. University students also joined the appeal, calling to save the educational institution and start work on the demolition of the rubble of the destroyed part of the university.

Vasyl SukhomlynskyiMykolaiv National University

On July 15 and August 2, 2022, as a result of missile strikes, the buildings of one of the city's largest higher educational institutions — Mykolaiv National University named after Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi — were destroyed.

In March 2023, the rector of the university, Valerii Budak, announced that the buildings of the Mykolaiv National University named after Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi, destroyed by Russian missiles , will begin to be restored after the end of the war.

However, the Sukhomlynskyi University concluded a contract for the production of design and estimate documentation for the reconstruction of Building No. 1, which was destroyed by the shelling of the Russian Federation.

Mykolaiv National University named after Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi

It was also reported that due to the buildings of the Mykolaiv National University named after Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi destroyed by Russian missiles, environmental damage amounted to 1 million 455 thousand hryvnias.

Mykolaiv Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding

As you know, Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding was one of the first universities to be destroyed by a Russian missile attack. Five S-300 missiles hit the university building on the morning of July 15, 2022.

Admiral Makarov National Shipbuilding University

Admiral Makarov National Shipbuilding University

Dismantling the structures of the hulls of the Admiral Makarov National Shipbuilding University in Mykolaiv destroyed by Russian missiles will cost 5 million hryvnias.

The University of Shipbuilding concluded contracts for the production of design and estimate documentation for the reconstruction of educational building buildings for 2.9 million hryvnias. The amount of the contract for the repair of the educational building at Heroiv Ukrainy Avenue, 9 is 1 million 498 thousand hryvnias. The project to restore the nearby humanitarian building was ordered for 1 million 496 thousand hryvnias.

Denmark also promised to help restore the damaged buildings of the Admiral Makarov National Shipbuilding University (NUK). The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to Ukraine Ole Egberg Mikkelsen is sure that this will revive Mykolaiv as a «city of shipbuilding».