Myrove Territorial Community

History

The Community was formed as a result of unification of four rural councils: the Myrove, Vyvodove, Vyshchetarasivka, and Zoria Councils consisting of fifteen localities. Distances to the Community centre are relatively not long.

In the village of Myrove near the Tomakivka River, there is a mound (grave) being more than three thousand years old and under the protection of the state, or maybe it is just a fence protecting the mound (grave) from the destruction of time, or maybe it was built by  the descendants of the Trypillia culture.

A part of Zalomy has survived in the territory of the Community. This is the place where Zaporizhia Cossacks rested between campaigns. According to legend, it was there that the Zaporizhians wrote a letter to the Turkish Sultan. At that time, Yavornytskyi had several incomplete versions of this letter; they say that it was in the village that the letter from the Zaporizhians to the Turkish Sultan was found. After the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP, it is coming back to life.

The Zemstvo School Building is located in the village of Nastasivka.

The Community is rich in mounds.

Economy and Welfare

Industrial enterprises of the Myrove Community extract and process minerals; are engaged in engineering, construction and oriented to both the Ukrainian and foreign markets. The largest industrial enterprises operating in the Community are Marganetsky GZK extracting minerals, Maxiprom Group producing manganese concentrate, and Forumagroprom producing complexes for shelling sunflower seeds.

There are more than 40 enterprises and farms operating in the territory of the Myrove Community, which specialize in the cultivation and production of chicken meat and eggs, grain and oil crops, vegetable and melon crops, cattle and pigs, meat and milk, fruits and berries, and fish.

In the territory of the Community, there is a powerful production facility of chicken meat and eggs – Agro-firm “Marganetska Poultry Farm”, which is one of the four leaders in the Dnipropetrovsk Region in terms of production of chicken eggs.

The processing industry of the Community is represented by enterprises focused on the processing of products of the agro-industrial complex, as well as directly by agricultural enterprises. The Community has companies producing flour and cereals, oil and meal, bakery and pasta products.

For transhipment of goods, the Community enterprises use road, railway and river infrastructure. The Myrove station, which is actually the industrial zone of the Community, makes it possible to tranship and store grain and oil crops at the Myrove Elevator.

Five substations are located across the Community.

Water is supplied to the enterprises and residents of the Myrove Community by the Marganets – Tomakivka water pipeline. Centralized water supply has a length of 59.8 kilometres covering almost 50 percent of the Community population. But its condition requires capital investment. There is no centralized drainage system in the territory of the Myrove Community.

All the localities of the Community and more than 90% of households are connected to the gas pipeline.

The educational sector is actively developing in the Community. The Community runs three schools, two educational complexes and two kindergartens, five culture centres. At present, educational institutions function online and, along with this, actively participate in volunteer aid to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

There are also three paramedics and midwives stations, two outpatient clinics, and an ambulance station in the Community.

At schools, the Viburnum of Memory campaign has been held, during which a viburnum bush has been planted in memory of every fallen defender of the Community.

Despite the wartime, dance group classes are held in the Community and video compositions are being prepared for the holidays.

At present, culture centres are used as points of invincibility, humanitarian aid distribution hubs, and water distribution points.

A social route service is provided to transport people from remote villages to the social institutions of the district.

Community and War

The war shifted the emphasis from development issues to ensuring everyday life activities and strengthening the security of the Community’s residents.

Given an extremely difficult humanitarian situation associated with water supply, which was disrupted due to the shallowing of the Kakhovka Reservoir, people were left without water. Thanks to benefactors, the Community receives drinking water.

The territory of the Community is under constant fire. So far, about 300 private houses have been damaged due to shelling by the russian federation. An outpatient clinic, two culture centres, a psycho-neurological institution have been damaged, a grammar school has almost completely been destroyed, and the equipment of the utility company supplying water to about 3,000 residents has been damaged.

Since the full-scale invasion began, the Community has been developing less as it has been regularly shelled. Despite the mass shelling, the Community makes every effort to ensure the normal life of its residents and their well-being.

There is a volunteer centre in the territory of the kindergarten.

People of the Community

Development Strategy

The development strategy of the Myrove Rural Territorial Community for 2018-2026 was drafted within the framework of the Decentralization Offering Better Results and Efficiency (DOBRE) program.

The key goals of the strategy include:

• formation of a good economic and investment environment in the Community;
• development of the potential of the local agricultural sector;
• improvement of the quality of social services;
• development of road infrastructure;
• development of ecological infrastructure and the solid waste management system;
• development of sanitary and public safety,
• strengthening of the cohesion and public activity of local residents;
• improvement of the institutional capacity of the Community;
• activation of the civic position of youth, etc.

Sources

• Community life before the war – google.com
• Holiday concerts across the Community before the war –youtube.com,  Myrove Community on YouTuve – Google search
• Community in wartime – http://surl.li/tqpam
• Myrove Community chat, a telegram group facebook.com/myrgromada