Plans are underway in Voznesensk to expand the modular Administrative Services Centre in order to open a Ministry of Internal Affairs service centre, a Civil Registry Office and a passport office

The Administrative Services Centre building. Photo: Voznesensk City Council

In Voznesensk, there are plans to expand the premises of the modular Administrative Services Centre to house the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ regional service centre, the city’s civil registry office and the passport service.

This was announced by the Mayor of Voznesensk, Yevhen Velychko, at a council meeting, according to NikVesti.

The modular Administrative Services Centre in Voznesensk opened in May 2024. At the council meeting, councillors supported the transfer of the Administrative Services Centre premises to the executive committee for use and the state registration of the right of use.

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According to the mayor, in order to have it accepted for use, the structure had to be altered, as it did not comply with fire safety regulations. In particular, new modules were installed to create internal staircases. Structures were also dismantled and treated with fire-retardant materials.

«The building did not pass the fire safety inspection. We installed new modules so that the staircase would be inside, as there are 24 people in the building. We dismantled all the racks and repainted them with fire-retardant paint. Of the six Administrative Service Centres that have been set up in Ukraine, five of them will never be officially registered, because the State Emergency Service will not issue a certificate for them. We have completed ours, but unfortunately at the expense of the local budget,» said the mayor.

Going forward, the city authorities plan to expand the centre’s premises, as the community covers a large area. In the future, they intend to house the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ regional service centre, the city’s civil registry office and the passport service here. The expansion will involve increasing the number of offices, as all necessary utilities are already in place.

«There are UNDP programmes that could allocate funds to us, but we need to have a project. We’re not talking about that yet, but the plans are there,» he noted.

As a reminder, five new administrative service centres are planned to open in the Mykolaiv region in 2026 as part of the Polaris programme, supported by Sweden. Communities eligible to join the initiative are currently being selected.

Recently, Dmytro Havryliak, Head of the Department for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalisation at the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration, recalled that in 2025, three administrative service centres were modernised in the region — in Kobleve, Bashtanka and Snihurivka.

In addition, in August 2025, with support from Denmark, a new Administrative Services Centre was opened in the Zavodskyi district of Mykolaiv. The total cost of the work amounted to 9,345,000 hryvnias: of this, 8,175,000 hryvnias were provided by the international organisation DRC, with a further 1,170,000 hryvnias funded from the city budget.