Mykolaiv was granted ₴1.2 million for emergency repairs to the Menkini building, which has been dilapidated in the city centre for two years

The non-governmental organisation «The Agency for Cultural Resilience» has allocated 1.2 million hryvnias for priority emergency repairs to the Menkini House, a building of the regional centre for folk art located on Admiralska Street, opposite the destroyed «Ingul» hotel.

This is described in the article NikVesti «What architectural monuments did Russia destroy in Mykolaiv and what will happen to them?».

The building is now in a dilapidated state. The first priority is to carry out emergency repairs and «preserve» the building to prevent further destruction and deterioration of the monument, Svitlana Hladun, head of the Mykolaiv Cultural Heritage Protection Department, explained in a commentary to NikVesti. This, she added, would require approximately 13 million hryvnias.

The non-governmental organisation «The Agency for Cultural Resilience» agreed to provide money for priority emergency work — 30 thousand dollars (about 1.2 million hryvnias).

«The amount is not very large, but it will allow us to preserve, cover and protect the building from further destruction. In the meantime, we will work on finding funds for further work, restoration and so on,» added Svitlana Hladun.

The amount of money needed for the full restoration of the historical monument cannot yet be announced. This will become clearer only after the development of a conservation project, explained the head of the Mykolaiv Department of Cultural Heritage Protection.

«Now the architect, who was invited by the «Cultural Sustainability Agency», is working on a project for emergency conservation work. The customer will be the balance holder — «Tsentralnyi» (municipal housing and maintenance enterprise — note). When the project is developed, we will be able to say more specifically what work will be carried out on this building. There is a very complex degree of damage,» said Svitlana Hladun.

We would like to remind you that the Menkini House was one of the architectural monuments destroyed by Russia. In 2022, it was included in the state register of architectural monuments. In Soviet times, it was the home of pioneers, where songwriter and author of the Moscow anthem Mark Lysianskyi began his career. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the building has been damaged several times by blast waves caused by Russian strikes. The building sustained the greatest damage in July 2023 during a Russian missile attack.