By the end of this year, 13 preschool institutions will be completed in Irkutsk

In Irkutsk, by the end of 2015, 13 kindergartens are planned to be put into operation, which will fully eliminate the waiting list for preschool institutions for children from three to seven years old. The city administration says all planned work has been completed in full, and some facilities have already been built, renovated, or are in the final stage of readiness. Mayor Dmitry Berdnikov noted the high quality of the work and named the construction of new schools as the next important step.

In Irkutsk, 13 preschool educational institutions will be put into operation by the end of 2015. As reported by the press service of the Irkutsk city administration, after these facilities are commissioned, the waiting list for preschool institutions for children aged three to seven will be eliminated in the city.
The chairman of the Committee on Urban Planning Policy, Ivan Gotovsky, refuted the statement by the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Irkutsk Region, Valentina Voblikova, about a possible failure to meet the deadlines for commissioning kindergartens in the regional center.
- The entire scope of planned work on commissioning kindergartens, which was carried out on the basis of co-financing from the federal, regional, and local budgets, has been completed in full in Irkutsk, - Ivan Gotovsky noted.
As a reminder, construction has been completed on kindergarten No. 25 for 110 places on Rabochego Shtaba Street, construction of a preschool institution in the Solnechny microdistrict, which was built on the basis of a public-private partnership, the kindergarten on Novatorov Street and the extension to kindergarten No. 136 have been commissioned. Three preschool education facilities were built by investors for buyout by the city administration: in the Universitetsky microdistrict, and in the 6th and 8th microdistricts of Novo-Lenino.

In addition, major repairs were carried out in two buildings returned to the municipal education system in the Oktyabrsky and Sverdlovsky districts. By the end of 2015, extensions for short-term stay of children, each with 140 places, will be commissioned for four kindergartens - kindergartens No. 36, 62, 77, 127. Construction has begun on kindergartens for 220 places on Baikalskaya Street, Yuri Tena Street, and on Zimnyaya Street for 350 places.
On December 16, Dmitry Berdnikov inspected the readiness of seven preschool institutions. Attention was focused on the quality of the work performed and the landscaping of the territory. All kindergartens were built using modern technologies.
– When we began such large-scale construction of kindergartens, few believed that we would cope with the task set before us in such a short time. Just a year ago, there was a difficult situation with kindergartens and their financing. Thanks to our joint efforts, on the eve of the New Year the children will go to comfortable kindergartens, – Dmitry Berdnikov emphasized.
The city head noted the high readiness of the kindergartens he inspected and emphasized that the next important step would be the construction of new schools in Irkutsk.