Kyiv municipal state administration hopes to start reconstruction of Andriivskyi Uzviz in Podilskyi district in 2009.
Anatolii Holubchenko, the first deputy head of the city administration, told this to the press, while accompanying Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi during the inspection of Andriivskyi Uzviz.
"Construction documents need to be done this year, the reconstruction should start in 2009," Holubchenko said.
He said Chernovetskyi would sign a resolution soon on a customer of the project design and a customer of the reconstruction works.
He said the reconstruction would take about two years.
Kyiv Mayor Chernovetskyi pledged in turn that Andriivskyi Uzviz would remain a site where one could buy souvenirs and works of art.
He criticized the administration of Podilskyi district, which owns most of the buildings on Andriivskyi Uzviz, for lack of attention to the street.
"I think the evil forces he [Mikhail Bulgakov] wrote about in his 'Master and Margarita' have possessed bureaucrats of the Podilskyi state administration I have to treat once and forever," he said.
In his opinion, the city budget should finance the restoration of facades of buildings that do not belonged to private owners.
Chernovetskyi further said the city administration would issue a resolution granting Andriivskyi Uzviz the status of a monument of architecture and restricting traffic in the street.
He said the city administration was intending to illuminate Andriivska Church on Andriivskyi Uzviz by May 25.
Chernovbetskyi said he had ideas and projects concerning the same status to some other streets in Kyiv.
The mayor did not specify which streets he had in mind.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Kyiv municipal state administration planned to endorse a draft project of reconstruction of Andriivskyi Uzviz in the first half year of 2008.
In October 2006, the Podilskyi district state administration cancelled the tender for the project of Andriivskyi Uzviz reconstruction, as the district budget lacked funds to provide fulfillment of the project works.
The project should include repair and replacement of utility pipes and outdoor lighting, restoration of architecture and stone-block pavement.
Andriivskyi Uzviz, one of the most famous old streets in Kyiv, runs from Kontraktova Square up to the crossing of Volodymyrska and Desiatynna streets.
