Project HOPE: Most residential buildings to be restored in Mykolaiv's Central District

Consequences of the Russian shelling of Mykolaiv on 19 July 2024, photo: NikVesti

In Mykolaiv, 54 apartment buildings damaged by Russian shelling will be restored as part of the grant project «HOPE». By the end of 2025, it is planned to develop projects to rebuild these buildings.

This is stated in the response of the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the City Council to the information request NikVesti.

Response of the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the City Council to the information request «NikVesti»

Response of the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the City Council to the information request «NikVesti»

This number of apartment buildings was distributed by city districts as follows:

• Central district — 22 apartment buildings;
• Zavodskyi district — 13 apartment buildings;
• Inhulskyi district — 12 apartment buildings;
• Korabelnyi district — 7 apartment buildings.

«Currently, the process of ordering design and estimate documentation (DE) has been initiated, which is a mandatory requirement for the Project implementation. The approximate timeframe for the procurement procedure (in accordance with World Bank rules) is the end of 2025», the department said.

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They added that, subject to «timely approval of all the necessary stages,» the restoration of the houses is planned to begin in the first half of 2026.

«At the same time, without a developed design and construction project, it is impossible to objectively predict the timing of the completion of repair work», they added.

The Department of Housing and Communal Services also did not provide a list of addresses of residential buildings to be renovated under the «HOPE» project at the request of the editorial board.

«In order to comply with security requirements, the addresses of the relevant facilities are not subject to public disclosure, in particular on the Internet», they explained.

As a reminder, the Department of Housing and Communal Services reported that they do not plan to rebuild residential buildings destroyed by Russian shelling in 2025, as the city budget does not have the funds for this. At the same time, 54 apartment buildings are planned to be restored as part of the project «Housing Opportunities for People's Empowerment (HOPE)».

What is the situation with the restoration of houses in Mykolaiv?

In 2024, UAH 45 million is planned to be spent from the Mykolaiv budget to restore damaged or destroyed apartment buildings, while in 2023, 40 million hryvnias was allocated for this purpose.

The first multi-storey building in Mykolaiv damaged by shelling was repaired at the expense of the city budget in July 2023. It was a building on Krylova Street that was hit by a Russian missile in the summer of 2022.

At the end of the year, the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the Mykolaiv City Council reported that in 2023, four residential apartment buildings that had been damaged by shelling by Russian troops had been overhauled.

After that, the Department of Housing and Communal Services announced a tender for the restoration of a five-storey building in the centre of Mykolaiv, which was destroyed by a Russian missile in autumn 2022. Subsequently, NikVesti showed how the process of its restoration is going.

And in April 2024, the Department of Housing and Communal Services announced another tender for the overhaul of a high-rise building at 132 Kosmonavtiv Street in Mykolaiv. Three other buildings awaiting reconstruction are those at 2 Aliaudy, 61 Rayduzhna and 142 B Kosmonavtiv.

At the same time, the city council supported the allocation of funds from the Mykolaiv budget for technical inspections of private houses affected by the war.

NikVesti also found out why residents of some destroyed high-rise buildings in Mykolaiv refuse to dismantle them and what will happen to the houses in the future in the article «The problem of restoring houses in Mykolaiv: what has changed in six months?».

The editorial team also found out how the process of issuing housing certificates to residents of the dismantled buildings at 35 Zavodska Street is going, what problems they have faced and what awaits them next. read more in the article NikVesti «The first dismantled building in Mykolaiv: will residents of Zavodska Street receive new housing?»