Specialists working on the new general plan of Kharkiv proceed from the assumption that the city’s population will be about 2-2.5 million people, city mayor Igor Terekhov said.
“We count on 2-2,5 million city inhabitants together with students, who will study in our higher educational institutions and technical schools. Perhaps over time there will be even more,” Terekhov said at a press meeting Friday.
According to him the team of British architect Norman Foster Foundation is preparing pilot projects in 5 areas (cultural heritage, housing, industry, scientific quarter, rivers and green areas). In particular, the mayor assured that the reconstruction of the center of Kharkiv will be done “with respect to the past”.
“The center of Kharkiv will be restored with respect to the past,” he said, noting that this area will be given new life by redesigning the key public places taking into account their history.
Besides, according to him, five city strategies (transport, energy, water and natural environment and redrawing of out-of-date administrative districts of Kharkiv) are being worked out.
Terekhov also promised that in the nearest future we will create a site, which will inform about the work on the general plan.
In turn, Foster noted that architects, while developing the general plan, proceeded from the fact that it is important to preserve rivers and green areas in Kharkiv, and also to improve mobility, connect pedestrian and bicycle lanes and create such transport networks throughout the city. He also noted the importance of the transition to clean energy sources.
According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022 the population of Kharkiv was slightly more than 1 million 421 thousand people.
On January 31, the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov said that now there are about 1.1 million people living in the regional center.
The Georgian embassy delivered high-capacity generators to Kharkiv on January 5, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
“We thank Georgia for providing Kharkiv with high-capacity generators, which were delivered by the Georgian embassy on January 5. We appreciate every assistance in restoring critical infrastructure facilities damaged after air, missile and artillery strikes,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Twitter.
All settlements in Kharkiv Region have been de-energized due to shelling by the Russian occupants, with six hits on critical infrastructure facilities recorded, the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Sinehubov, said.
“We had two arrivals in Kharkiv, four objects in the Chuguev district. All of these are objects of critical energy infrastructure…. There is no light neither in Kharkiv, nor in the region, nor in any of the settlements”, – said Sinegubov on air ICTV.
According to him, the damage is now being studied, after which it will be possible to talk about the terms of their elimination.
Sinegubov predicted that most likely, there will be no electricity until morning, but noted that these terms are very approximate, because experts are still analyzing the nature of the damage. In addition, the situation is complicated by the newly declared airborne alarm, which does not allow to start the restoration work in full.
KP “Kharkiv Metro” warns passengers about possible difficulties due to the unstable situation with electricity.
“Due to the unstable situation in the regional energy network, temporary difficulties are possible with the transportation of passengers along the metro lines. Please understand the situation and apologize for the temporary inconvenience!”, the company’s telegram channel says.
On Tuesday morning, the subway suspended the transportation of passengers on all three lines for technical reasons. At the moment, the movement of trains has been resumed, but the intervals of movement have been increased to 20 minutes.
In Kharkiv, the payment for all utilities provided by the city will be written off from February 24 until the end of the war, said Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
“I know and understand how hard it is for you, how steadfastly you hold on, enduring all the horrors of war. Therefore, all utilities provided by the city will be written off from February 24 until the end of the war,” Terekhov said in a video message published on his Telegram channel.
“At the same time, I am very grateful to all the people who, despite the fighting, continue to pay for housing and communal services. I promise you that with the arrival of peace in Ukraine, your bills will be recalculated,” he added.
The hotel operator Ribas Hotels Group (Odesa) has preliminary agreements with developers to expand the network of WOL apart-hotels by opening new facilities in Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa in the next 2-3 years.
As Artur Lupashko, founder of Ribas Hotels Group, told Interfax-Ukraine, according to preliminary agreements with developers, WOL and WOL Black apart-hotels with a total area of more than 20,000 square meters will be implemented in Lviv.
“We also have preliminary agreements to launch WOL apart-hotels in Kyiv and Kharkiv in the next two or three years,” he said.
In addition, it is planned to carry out repair work in the Odesa complex of Aura apartments with the aim of launching an apart-hotel in 2023.
“In addition, two more projects in Kyiv, two projects in Lviv, projects in Uzhgorod, Poltava and Mykolaiv are at the stage of active negotiations with developers,” Lupashko shared his plans.
Ribas Hotels Group is also partnering with developer Asgard in the Duck’s Lake apartment project in Lviv, work on which will start this year.
KHARKIV, KYIV, LVIV, ODESA, RIBAS HOTELS
