Leonid Chernovetskiy Becames a Mayor of Kiev.

04/20/2006
President of Ukraine officially assigned Mr. Chernovetskiy as a mayor of Kiev.
Leonid Chernovetskiy, a liberal lawmaker and a member of Our Ukraine, was a winner in Kiev mayor election defeating incumbent Oleksandr Omelchenko.

Moscow Square - Construction Works are Terminated.

04/19/2006
Construction works on Moscow Square in Kiev were terminated, as it was announced on TV channel Kiev. Reasons are not known yet.
City Counsel approved project of Moscow Square reconstruction in January. The project included 450m bridge equipped with noise barriers, 100m entrance and 70m exit rumps, and reconstruction of three existing underground pedestrian paths. Budget of 20M UAH in 2006 was approved. Necessary for construction 0.15 hectares of property were obtained from Roshen candy factory. Currently contractor started preparations for construction of piers foundations on the lot.
The Central Bus Station was built in the center of the square in 1968. Since then Moscow Square was never reconstructed. Now it's became one of the City's "bottle necks" creating heavy traffic on four major transportation paths that meet here.

Construction of the Flood Protecting Dam Along River Tisa.

04/07/2006
President of Ukraine Mr. Yuschenko visited construction of the flood protecting dam along river Tisa (Western Ukraine). He visited area between settlements Salovka and Solomonove of Uzhgorod oblast (province).
Length of the flood-protecting dam is 18km all together. It protects 7 settlements including City of Chop (the Ukrainian-Hungarian and Ukrainian-Slovakian board city). The demand of dam construction came from experience of 1998 and 2002 floods. An average height of the dam is 1.4 m.

Stolitsa Corporation Wins Bid for Residential District Construction in Kherson.

04/06/2006
Stolitsa (Capital) Corporation won a bid for construction of new district Korabel2 in Kherson (Southern Ukraine). Construction lot is about 20 hectares and consists of sandy soils. It requires dredging operations for land reclamation to bring the floor level 2.5-4m up from river. Residential part of the project consists of 9 and 16 sore buildings. There will be used cast-in-place (monolith-frame) construction technique in conjunction with the most effective for energy saving bricks facing. Project includes construction of shopping mall, day care facilities, freeway, and wharf promenade.
Project's cost reaches $50M. It will create a lot of jobs in the area. City of Kherson will get 10% of built apartments for community needs.