The Ministry of Education announced the name of the new unified university in Mykolaiv

The Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi National University and the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding will be merged in Mykolaiv. Instead of two higher education institutions, a new educational institution of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences will be created.

The relevant institution was supported by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on January 5, the Ministry of Education reported on its official website.

«Later, these two institutions will form the multi-disciplinary University of Shipbuilding and Development of the South (UKRoP). In the new institution, an autonomous pedagogical institute will develop, which will strengthen the pedagogical direction in the region,» the message reads.

The ministry notes that in the newly established higher education institution, students will be able to expand their choice of disciplines. Also, such a reorganization will improve working conditions for employees of higher education institutions. So, as early as 2024, it is planned to invest funds in new scientific and educational and laboratory equipment for the educational institution.

«Decisions on the reorganization of higher education institutions are necessary in order to improve the quality of higher education and the objective need to modernize institutions. This year, we plan to direct funding from the World Bank, in particular, to the development of higher education institutions. In 2023, a successful unification of institutions with subsequent significant investment was carried out in Dnipro, where the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technology was established,» the ministry noted.

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.

Mykolaiv Sukhomlynskyi 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 Sukhomlynskyi National University — 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 Sukhomlynsky 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 reconstruction project of 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».