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Dymer Territorial Community
Kyiv
Population:
The Dymer settlement territorial community includes the settlement of Dymer and 33 villages. The administrative center of the territorial community is the urban-type settlement of Dymer, Vyshhorod district, Kyiv region.
The area of the territorial community is 956.6 square kilometers.
The settlement of Dymer, the administrative center of the community, is located 32 km from Kyiv and 30 km from the Nemishaeve railway station.
The Pekhivka River flows through the northern outskirts of the settlement.
The distance from the farthest community population center of Liubydva is 44 km from the administrative center of Dymer.
A total of 19,758 people is registered on the territory of the community.
Men: 9,165.
Women: 10,566 people.
Children under the age of 7: 768.
Children aged 7 to 18: 2,204.
There are 1,286 registered internally displaced persons in the community.
History.
The first written mention of Dymer dates back to 1582, but the settlement is obviously much older. Dymer used to be a small town, and about 6,000 people live in it now.
Dymer traces its history from the time of Kyivan Rus. In this town, there were metallurgical enterprises, where swamp ore was smelted and weapons were produced. Accordingly, there was always a lot of smoke over the town (and Dymer used to be a town). Hence the name Dymer (Ukrainian “dym” translates as “smoke” into English).
In the 19th century, Dymer was a town that was maintained by the state treasury from 1810 (treasury town). For some time, the center of the county was located here.
Officially, there are no architectural monuments in Dymer. But there are a dozen buildings in the settlement, erected in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which could definitely be considered monuments. These are the Dymer Gymnasium (1913), a library (early 20th century), several administrative buildings of the early 20th century, a church located in a building of the early 20th century.
Economy and Welfare
The economic development indicators of the community are significantly affected by the consequences of the full-scale russian invasion and a serious crisis in manufacturing industry. Thus, reconstruction of enterprises whose industrial facilities are located on the territory of the community and their full reactivation remain an urgent task for the community. Against the background of large-scale loss of jobs, external and internal migration of the able-bodied population, the employment rate in the Dymer settlement territorial community, in particular in the state-financed sphere, is about 90%. The local budget is mainly filled at the expense of taxes of enterprises and non-profit organizations operating on the territory of the community.
In the Dymer settlement territorial community, there are 4 preschool education institutions that provide educational services for 484 pupils and 9 institutions of general secondary education having 136 classes and enrolling 2,385 pupils in the 2023/2024 school year.
The average number of pupils in a class in community schools is 17. Also, there is 1 out-of-school education institution (communal out-of-school education institution “LAND OF DREAMS”). The community also has the Inclusive Resource Center.
As part of the “Healthy Country” program of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, active parks were opened in the villages of Hlibivka and Kozarovychi.
In December 2021, a modern park with playgrounds and benches for rest was opened near the local pond in Dymer. Special mention should be made of the Alley of Glory to Heroes – residents of the Dymer community, who gave their lives for Ukrainian statehood, independence and freedom – which was opened in February 2024;
The communal non-profit enterprise “Dymer Central Settlement Hospital” of the Dymer Settlement Council provides primary and secondary (specialized) medical care and employs 31 doctors and 48 nurses and paramedics.
Citizens can receive primary medical care in the dispensaries of the general practice of family medicine in the villages. Secondary medical care is provided in the consultative diagnostic department and inpatient department with a 40-bed palliative care center. A clinical diagnostic laboratory and an infectious disease department work on the basis of the hospital (now employees have been redeployed and the building is under reconstruction).
Emphasis is placed on preventive work with the aim of bringing high-quality qualified medical care to each person at their place of residence: patronage, emergency medical care, increased level of vaccination in the community. Thus, 7 field medical examinations for women were carried out. The hospital cooperates with the International Medical Corps in Ukraine, Ukrainian and international charitable foundations.
On March 18, 2024, a modular dispensary was established next to the old building with the support of Vitaliy Kashchenko, UA Dream Charity Foundation. Here the residents will be able to receive basic medical care. The project is at the stage of arranging the adjacent area, connecting the electricity supply, ensuring the water supply and drainage.
One of the areas of socio-economic development of the community is social protection of the population, provision of social services in accordance with standards.
There is a communal institution “Social Services Center” of the Dymer Settlement Council on the territory of the community. One of the main tasks of the center is the timely identification, arrangement and provision of social services to citizens who find themselves in difficult life circumstances and need special attention and assistance based on an individual and comprehensive approach to each ward.
The new construction of the Administrative Services Center building is now underway on Yaroslava Mudroho Street in Dymer – with the assistance of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in July 2024, the Dymer Town Council was provided with a modular structure for the placement of Administrative Services Center.
Community and War
Between February 02, 2022 and March 31, 2022, the community was under the occupation by russian troops, and until the end of March, active military operations were conducted in population centers of the Dymer community with constant bombings, airstrikes and shelling.
On February 24, the local authorities, the majority of deputies, and starostas met the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine which arrived on the banks of the Irpin River and sent them utility vehicles and all the fuel that was available at that time. The first thing that the effort was directed at was the creation of a humanitarian corridor, which was possible only from the water area of the Kyiv Reservoir. They managed to transport medicines amounting to UAH 2 million and food products. This route worked for almost two weeks, so it was possible to deliver about 1,000 people to the left bank of the Vyshhorod district.
The community population centers suffered significant destruction. Thus, about 1,500 buildings and structures were damaged, of which about 100 were completely destroyed. In addition, at the end of the occupation, all bridge crossings were damaged, and all transport routes were cut off. Of all destroyed buildings, 95% are housing stock. There is also damage to cultural centers, schools, and kindergartens, and their reconstruction is a big burden on the community budget.
The situation with the humanitarian provision of the population during the occupation was exacerbated, when the pumping station in the village of Kozarovychi, located at the confluence of the Irpin River and the Kyiv Reservoir, was blown up by russians on February 25, 2022.
In addition, on February 25, 2022, a bridge across the Irpin River was blown up. After the dam was blown up, water from the Kyiv Reservoir filled the floodplain of the Irpin River, creating a swamp that prevented the advance of russian troops towards the capital.
Inhabitants of the village of Demydiv were affected: about 120 residential buildings, vegetable storages (cellars), gardens, and agricultural buildings were flooded. The wells were also flooded, as a result of which the inhabitants of the village feel a lack of quality drinking water even today.
Help in rebuilding the community was provided by KOVA. People’s deputy Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk and her charitable foundation contributed to the allocation of construction materials. The following international and public organizations also actively helped: Dobrobat, Caritas, Red Cross, Acted, Rokada, UNICEF, ULEAD, Rotary.
Important for today is the implementation of the adopted Law of Ukraine on the restoration of damaged property. 364 applications were received by the Settlement Council under the eRecovery program, of which 304 applications were considered.
The Settlement Council provides material assistance from the local budget to servicemen in the amount of UAH 20,000, in addition, the families of the fallen Heroes are paid UAH 25,000 for burial. As of August 21, 2024, 72 compatriot servicemen gave their lives for Ukrainian freedom and independence, and 38 defenders from the community are considered missing.
People of the Community
Dymer Settlement Head Volodymyr Pidkurhannyi was first elected to the post of village head in 2020.
After the full-scale invasion, volunteers, community activists, became the link that connected the occupied territory with the population centers that were beyond the line of the Irpin river, where the rashist did not set foot.
They set up corridors for the delivery of food, hygiene products, and medicines. In addition, they transmitted information that was more valuable than any material values – about the situation in the community and relatives and friends of those people who were able to flee the occupation.
It is worth noting Andrii Solohub, the director of the Lytvyn School, a long-time member of the Red Cross. He opened a Red Cross branch in the empty building of the Stratostat in Demydiv. People were coming there who wanted to receive aid or to share it with others. Local residents brought extra food and medicine and the doctors who remained in the village opened a medical center in the same building.
On March 11, 2022, Yulia Ivannikova-Katsimon, a resident of the village of Novi Petrivtsi, came to the Irpin crossing. Before the full-scale war, she worked as a dispatcher in the local fire service, and then she participated in the evacuation of residents of the Dymer community as a volunteer in the Solohub’s team and was held captive by the russians for a long time.
On July 12, 2024, a modern youth space, Ko_Laba was opened in the village of Demydiv. The ESTEAM – Ko_Laba project for young people of the Dymer community became possible thanks to the cooperation of the Dymer Settlement Council and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with GoGlobal and with the financial support of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ) through the K/W State Development Bank and the Government of Belgium, with the support of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine.
Development Strategy
Conducting a land inventory is considered a strategically important task, which will make it possible to establish the quantitative characteristics of land plots.
An important issue is the actualization (development, updating) of the normative monetary valuation of lands, which will allow to increase budget revenues from land transactions.
It is also expedient to prepare a spatial development scheme, documentation on establishing the boundaries of the territorial community, urban planning documentation for population centers (including outside the boundaries), since such documentation was not transferred (or not transferred in full) to the Dymer Settlement Council.
Thanks to decentralization in Ukraine, the Dymer settlement territorial community, like every community in Ukraine, independently outlines the priority ways of its development.
The community independently and in cooperation with the regional leadership implements projects within its territory and attracts resources and expert support to achieve its goals.
List of Sources
- ukrainaincognita.com
- Website of the Dymer Settlement Council
- Facebook Page of the Dymer Community
- uk.wikipedia.org
- gromada.info
- Photographs by Roman Nahaliuk, Andrii Solohub, Roman Malenkov and Lilia Kalashnikova
- Photographs by the executive committee of the Dymer Settlement Council
- Photographs by Departments of Economic Development and Investment, Internal Information Policy, Public Relations and Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalization