₴37.4 million was spent on repairing school shelters from the Mykolaiv budget over two years

Shelter in a school in Mykolaiv region, photo: NikVesti

Since the beginning of 2024, 37.4 million hryvnias have been spent from the city budget to equip shelters in schools, lyceums and gymnasiums in Mykolaiv.

This is stated in the response of the Education Department of the Mykolaiv City Council to the information request NikVesti.

In particular, the city budget was spent on the construction of school shelters as follows:

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• in 2024 — 36.8 million hryvnias;
• in 2025 (as of August) — 545.9 thousand hryvnias.

A total of 39 shelters have been repaired in the city's schools, lyceums and gymnasiums, which have already been inspected by the commission, including

• 12 Mykolaiv lyceums: No. 2, 9, 19, 22, 28, 34, 38, 41, 42, 51, 55, 58 (2 shelters);
• Mykolaiv Lyceum named after Olzhych;
• Mykolaiv Lyceum named after Professor Aleksandrov;
• 22 Mykolaiv gymnasiums: №4,11,13, 15, 20, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36, 39, 45, 46, 47, 50, 54, 56, 57;
• Mykolaiv specialised school for children with visual impairments.

Six more shelters are planned to be opened in city schools by the new school year, the education department added.

Response of the Education Department of Mykolaiv City Council to the information request NikVesti

Response of the Education Department of Mykolaiv City Council to the information request NikVesti

However, the total number of equipped shelters in the city's schools is higher, said Deputy Mayor Anatolii Petrov on the TV channel «March».

«We were given the task of offline education at the beginning of 2023 because we realised that First, two years of Covid, then the war broke out and virtually all of Ukraine was not ready for shelters. All this time, we have been cooperating with international organisations, charities and NGOs, and investing the local budget. To date, we have repaired 88 shelters in 2.5 years. This is actually 65% of the total number of educational institutions in Mykolaiv,» said Anatolii Petrov.

In 2024, the Capital Construction Department of the City Council spent 7.6 million hryvnias on the construction of shelters in schools and kindergartens in Mykolaiv.

Prior to that, the Capital Construction Department had named the safety component as a priority for its work in 2025. The plan was to build seven new shelters in schools and kindergartens, and to overhaul three more in hospitals.

At the same time, Mykolaiv region was among the three regions where the largest number of school shelters were built under the programme «School Offline».