The Trajectory Group wants to build two more 25-storey buildings on the territory of Kyiv Aviation University (KAI, formerly known as NAU), according to acting rector Ksenia Semenova.
“They are constantly bringing some additional agreements retroactively without signatures, which have no official trace within the university,” Semenova says.
Currently, the developer is building a four-section building on the corner of Garmatna Street and Vidradny Avenue. Two sections have already been put into operation, and two more are at the final stage of work, but construction has been stopped. Serhiy Klymenko, a representative of Trajectory, claims that the third and fourth sections of the building cannot be completed unless construction of two more 25-story buildings is started.
“This is illegal. Investors’ money cannot be used to complete other projects without their permission. Imagine that you invest in an apartment, and the agreement says that the money will not be used for its construction, but for the completion of another building. Would you buy it?” wrote Ksenia Semenova, acting rector of the KAI.
Summarizing, the acting rector noted that the university’s position is unchanged – no construction of residential complexes on the territory of the university. Service apartments are an unprofitable investment for the educational institution and the state, because land is an exhaustible resource. And the campus can only have infrastructure that facilitates the educational process.
The university is also interested in commissioning the third and fourth sections of the building. In particular, without further involvement of Trajectory Group.
Currently, the company has been asked to provide proposals for the completion of the construction and claims that in the absence of such proposals, the university will resolve the issue without their participation.
What is known about the construction
On September 14, 2021, the SACI issued a permit for the construction of apartment buildings on the land occupied by the NAU. According to the documentation in the electronic construction system, it was a residential complex of 14 nine-story buildings with 1659 apartments.
The area of the land plot on which the NAU campus is located is 38.2 hectares (according to the Land Cadastre). The customer for the construction of apartment buildings is NAU as the user of the land plot.
The rector since 2021 is Maksym Lutskyi, a former MP from the Party of Regions, who came to NAU during the rectorate of Mykola Kulyk in 2008-2015. That’s when the development of the university’s territory began. Maksym Lutskyi is associated with this development, as Vasyl Isaienko (rector of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016-2020) told Babel.
Atmosphere Engineering Systems was the general contractor of the new construction on the territory of the National Academy of Sciences. Until April 2020, one of the owners was Yevhen Petrishchuk, who was an advisor to the head of Ukravtodor Oleksandr Kubrakov from late 2019 to May 2021.
On April 29, 2024, the State Inspectorate of Architecture and Urban Development of Ukraine revoked the permit (registration number ІУ013210909218) for construction work on the territory of the National Aviation University. This was reported by the acting rector of NAU Ksenia Semenova.
