Tree count: an inventory has been carried out in 21 parks, squares and green spaces in Mykolaiv

The Yunist Park area, photo by NikVesti

An inventory of trees and shrubs in the city’s squares and parks is currently underway in Mykolaiv. To date, specialists from the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks» have surveyed 21 green spaces.

The enterprise reported this in response to an information request from NikVesti.

Work on recording green spaces began in April 2024. The municipal enterprise noted that the inventory is carried out annually between April and October in accordance with the requirements of current legislation.

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Specifically, this refers to the 2001 order of the State Committee for Construction, Architecture and Housing Policy of Ukraine, which approved the instructions for the inventory of green spaces in settlements across Ukraine.

‘Mykolaiv Parks’ notes that when drawing up the budget request for the following year, the enterprise provides for funding to carry out such work on the city’s green spaces. However, due to the state of martial law, funds for these purposes are not currently being allocated.

According to the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks», as of today, an inventory has already been carried out at 21 of the city’s green spaces:

• Arkasivskyi Square on Arkasivska Street, at the corner of Admiralska Street — area 13,233 m² (trees — 201, shrubs — 20, hedges — 165.8 running metres)
• Mykhailo Oleksandrov Square on Tsentralnyi Avenue, corner of Buznyk Street — (trees — 155, shrubs — 1,116)
• «Pivnichna Rodyna» Square on Architect Starova Street — (shrubs — 22)
• «Youth» Square on Architect Starov Street — (trees — 8)
• «Memory» Square on Sylikatna Street — (trees — 59)
• «Avtomobilist» Square on Heroes of Ukraine Avenue — (trees — 29, shrubs — 1, hedges — 10 running metres)
• Chumatskyi Square at the junction of PGU and Malko-Tyrnivska Street (trees — 67, shrubs — 3)
• Soborna Street from Ihor Bedzai Street to Admiralska Street — (trees — 240)
• Shevchenko Street from Terasna Street to Hromadianska Street — (trees — 434, shrubs — 110, hedges — 19.4 running metres)
• Vadym Blahovisnyi Street from Varvarivskyi Descent to Sadova Street — (591 trees, 44 shrubs, 136.7 metres of hedges)
• General Oleksa Almazov Street, from Tsentralnyi Avenue to Industrialna Street — (238 trees, 38 shrubs, 3 linear metres of hedges)
• Viacheslav Chornovil Square at the corner of Velyka Morska and Nikolska Streets — (26 trees and 47 linear metres of hedges)
• «Guitar» Square on General Karpenko Street — (27 trees and 11 shrubs)
• Sportyvna Street, from Levanevtsiv Street to Buzkyi Boulevard — (114 trees)
• Andrii Pokrovskyi Street, from Admiralska Street to Arkasivska Street — (210 trees and 23 shrubs)
• «Children’s» Square on Kurortna Street — (46 trees and 55 shrubs)
• The square at the corner of General Karpenko Street and Bila Street — (110 trees)
• Green area on Kurortna Street — (48 trees, 99 square metres of flower beds and 19 shrubs)
• Andriy Antonyuk Square on Inzhenerna Street, corner of Sevastopolska — (55 trees, 42.6 square metres of flower beds and 90 shrubs)
• Varvarivskyi Square on Veselynivska Street — (110 trees and 2 shrubs)
• Mala Morska Street, from Admiralska to Kovalska — (332 trees, 88.7 square metres of hedges, 57 shrubs)

The appendix provides more details on the area of green spaces and the species of trees growing there:

It should be noted that as of September 2025, an inventory had been carried out across 10 green areas.

It was also reported that, according to estimates, a full inventory of trees in Mykolaiv would cost around 15 million hryvnias, but the city does not have such funds.

It should be noted that since January 2022, most of Mykolaiv’s green spaces have been transferred to the management of the municipal enterprise «Mykolaiv Parks». The company looks after 263 parks, squares and public gardens, as well as 424 green areas along the streets. Only three public gardens and Soborna Square remain under the jurisdiction of the Housing and Communal Services Department. In effect, ‘Mykolaiv Parks’ has become the main caretaker of the city’s green spaces.

However, since the transfer of all green areas, it is still unclear exactly how many shrubs and trees are growing there. The Mykolaiv Housing and Communal Services Department began an inventory before 2022 but never completed the work. Trees were counted several times — in 2008–2009 and 2015–2018 — and only in parks and squares. However, no record has ever been kept of trees along the city’s streets and roads.