In Irkutsk this year four more squares were taken onto the balance sheet, and the Cosmonauts square was already improved with attracted investor funds. 17 million rubles were allocated for park development and maintenance under the Ecological City program for 2013 to 2017, distributed among city districts. In addition, 37 sites for new squares were identified in the city, and projects and technical documentation are already ready for several sites.
This year, 4 more squares were taken onto the balance sheet: the monument to Yu.A. Nozhikov, “Thumbelina,” “Cat,” and the square near “Vostsibugol.” In the summer of this year, the “Cosmonauts” square at the intersection of Surikova St. and 5th Army St. was landscaped with investors’ attracted funds as part of compensatory greening. In 2014, it is planned to be included in the list for maintenance.Within the framework of the target program “Ecological City” for 2013-2017, 17 million rubles were allocated for the improvement of parks whose maintenance is overseen by district administration committees. Of this amount, 7 million rubles went to the Leninsky District, 3 million rubles to the Pravoberezhny District, 3.5 million rubles to the Oktyabrsky District, and 3.700 million rubles to the Sverdlovsky District.
As specialists from the urban planning policy committee noted, there are 37 sites in the city where new squares could be laid out. At the initiative of the deputies, it is proposed to tidy up the square on Kirpichnaya St. and Rozy Lyuksemburg St., give it the status of a “square,” and carry out the necessary work on the territory between Baikalskaya St. and Zhukov Avenue. The technical assignment is already ready, and a landscaping project for this square will be developed in the near future. As of today, the design estimate documentation is ready for the park at 46 Marshal Konev St. and 217 Rozy Lyuksemburg St.