In Irkutsk, an auction was announced for building a kindergarten for 350 children on Zimnaya Street, the city has never built such a large preschool. The contract will cost up to 267 million rubles, and completion is planned for December 2016. Also planned are new kindergartens and school expansions to solve the shortage of places in educational institutions. Hundreds of millions of rubles are allocated for this, including funds for an additional building for School 64, a block for School 66, and a sports and recreation complex.

An auction has been announced for the construction of a preschool institution for 350 places on Zimnyaya Street. As the city mayor’s office press service reports, citing Deputy Mayor — Chairman of the Committee on Urban Planning Policy of Irkutsk Ivan Gotovsky, kindergartens of such capacity had not previously been built in the regional center.
The maximum contract value will amount to 267 million rubles, and the project will be financed under the municipal program “Construction of Social Infrastructure Facilities in 2013–2017.” The results of the bidding will be summed up at the end of this month, and the completion deadline for the facility is December 2016.
In addition, in 2016 Irkutsk plans to complete two more kindergartens — each for 220 places, the construction of which is already underway on Baikalskaya Street and Yuri Tena Street. In 2017, they intend to commission a preschool institution for 350 places on Sosnovaya Street. Construction is also planned for two kindergartens, each for 110 places, on Akademika Burdenko Street and on Baikalskaya Street in the area of building No. 48.
At the same time, it is planned to address the shortage of places in general education institutions. On the grounds of School No. 64 with in-depth study of individual subjects, located on Gidrostroiteley Street, an additional building for 550 places is expected to be built by summer 2017, and at Secondary School No. 66 on Lenskaya Street an additional block for 250 places is to be erected. About 650 million rubles are planned to be allocated from the city budget for these purposes. Another 250 million rubles will be directed to the construction of a sports and recreation complex on Ryabikova Boulevard.