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Krasnosilka Territorial Community
Odesa
Population:
The Krasnosilka Territorial Community was created in 2015 as one of the first communities in the Odesa Region. The Community is situated in the south-eastern part of the Odesa Region.
The total territory of the Community amounts to 37,474.3 hectares.
It includes: agricultural land – 23,757.44 hectares, land for residential and public development – 3,799.0 hectares, forest land – 628.9853 hectares, and land under water bodies – 8,092.62 hectares.
The Krasnosilka Community consists of fourteen rural localities.
As of 01 January 2023, the population of the Community totalled 14,963 residents.
Men: 7,181 residents
Women: 7,782 residents
Internally displaced persons registered in the Community: 686 people
History
The Krasnosilka Community is a multinational community. The representatives of more than 20 nationalities live in the Community.
The administrative centre of the Community is the village of Krasnosilka founded in the 19th century by the Germans as the village of Hildendorf, which was also called Kutuzove. In 1946, it was renamed Krasnosilka.
The foundation of fourteen villages across the Community has one thing in common: they were founded by colonists at the turn of the 19th century: Greeks, Germans, Armenians, Bulgarians, who were attracted by the tsar’s offer of land acquisition and ten-year tax concessions, development of new lands of the Northern Black Sea region.
The first mentions of the settlements in the territory of the Krasnosilka Community are associated with the formation of households by Bulgarian colonists from Varna and its surroundings, who were attracted by economic reasons for resettlement at the turn of the 19th century – that’s when the Bulgarian villages of Kubanka, Novokubanka, and Ivanovo were founded.
Also in the territory of the Community is the Kuialnyk Estuary, which is a natural, ecological, historical and cultural asset of the Community.
The area is called Kuialnyk because of the estuary and the sanatorium. In the 19th century, the estuary itself was called Andriivskyi in honour of doctor Erast Andriivskyi, who founded the resort there. According to the 1902 Kuialnyk estuary guidebook, “the new municipal medical institution occupies an area of 5,300 square meters and consists of 96 premises for baths located in eight halls.”
Kuialnyk sulphide sludge mud is recognized as reference one for its medicinal properties. The lowest point of Ukraine is located in the area of the Kuialnyk Estuary: 5 meters lower than the sea level.
Sometimes Kuialnyk turns pink due to the seasonal reproduction of Dunaliella salina algae and the presence of halobacteria in the water.
Economy and Welfare
153 business entities are registered in the territory of the Krasnosilka Village Council. The main areas of their operations include the processing industry, agriculture and forestry, water supply, wholesale and retail trade, public administration, health care and social services.
The agricultural sector of the Community specializes in the cultivation of grain and technical crops. The main types of grain crops are winter wheat, winter barley and corn. Sunflower and rapeseed play a significant role in the cultivation of technical crops.
Thirty-six main agricultural enterprises of various ownership forms are registered in the territory of the Community.
AGRO PIVDEN 1 LLC is the largest agricultural entity in the Krasnosilka Community cultivating grain crops. The enterprise has been operating for about ten years; the total area of cultivated land is more than twelve thousand hectares. The enterprise specializes in the cultivation of grain and technical crops, and also provides services of land cultivation, harvesting and transportation of crops.
Land is cultivated with its own modern equipment, which is used in the cultivation of soil, seedlings, harvesting and transportation of finished products.
Beekeeping is developed in the territory of the Community, and GELEKA-M specializes in growing mushrooms.
As the Community is located in a zone of increased insolation, fields of solar power plants are located in its territory.
The Chumak Way ethno-festival became a platform for the organization of contest programs: creative, sports, gastronomic ones. Ethnographic routes including a visit to the Chumak well in the village of Novokubanka, livestock farms, participation in the process of making Sverdlovsk cheese in the village of Ivanovo. People come from all over the country to take part in sports competitions in cycling, running, and chess.
The Community takes care of the residents’ health. The creation of the Primary Health Care Centre in the Krasnosilka Community is a big step in the development of the medical field and the provision of quality services. It is in charge of five paramedics and midwives stations and one outpatient clinic.
The Administrative Services Centre of the Krasnosilka Village Council provides 378 administrative services.
When it comes to culture, youth, sports and tourism, the Krasnosilka Community runs seven village libraries, eight clubs and the communal institution “Centre for Artistic and Aesthetic Education”. Sports for adults are organized by the communal institution “Sports for All”; sports for children are organized by the communal institution “Complex Children’s and Youth Sports School”. The Krasnosilka Community has two football fields, two sports grounds, two school gymnasiums, and two private equestrian clubs.
The residents of the Krasnosilka Community follow a healthy lifestyle and pay attention to their individual physical health.
The Krasnosilka Territorial Community has a network of educational institutions, which is actively developing. In 2022-2023, the educational process was provided by six institutions of general secondary education, two institutions of preschool education and two institutions of out-of-school education.
For the youngest residents of the Community, subject-spatial developmental environments have been created in kindergartens, where children fully realize their natural abilities and aptitudes. Every year, the Village Council conducts a health-improving campaign for children to ensure health improvement and recreation of children from among the disadvantaged category families in an out-of-town sanatorium-type children’s institution.
During air raids, the students of the Krasnosilka Lyceum and pupils of the Kalynka kindergarten use the basement (the simplest shelter) in the immediate vicinity of the location of the educational institutions.
Many projects have also been implemented across the Community.
Community and War
Due to repeated massive shelling of energy infrastructure facilities in the Odesa Region, emergency power outages have been practiced in the Krasnosilka Community as well. More than 1,000 internally displaced persons have come to the Community. One of the main objectives is to take care of internally displaced persons who, because of the war, left their own homes and temporarily found their shelter in the territory of the Krasnosilka Community.
The Krasnosilka Community has been receiving internally displaced persons since 2014, and since February 2022, people of all ages in need of aid have been coming to the Community to take a breather in the prepared premises.
The Krasnosilka Village Council constantly organizes various charity events in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which the Community residents willingly participate.
Pupils of educational institutions made their own Christmas and New Year greeting cards for the military, baked cookies and sent them to the front lines.
People of the Community
Maryna Arkhirii began her career at the Krasnosilka Village Council in 2002, and in 2020 she was elected the head of the Krasnosilka Village Council.
Under the leadership of the head of the Community, a lot of work has been done in the area of housing and communal services, as well as programs initiated and adopted in the medical, educational, cultural and social fields.
Marina Arkhirii builds partnership relations with businesses, the counsellors, and is open to the public; she promotes the Krasnosilka Community on foreign and Ukrainian platforms.
Maryna Arkhirii also heads the Odesa regional branch of the Ukrainian National Association of United Territorial Communities and is the head of the “Security: Ecology” platform of the Ukrainian National Association of United Territorial Communities; at the regional level she provides organizational and informational support in the processes of political consultations with the leadership of the regional administration, the regional council.
Development Strategy
Now the Community is looking for investments for the “Rehabilitation Centre for the Disabled with a Prosthetics Centre”. The project envisages the creation of a specialized centre where persons with disabilities who have returned from the war and those injured as a result of hostilities could undergo rehabilitation programs and receive appropriate medical care, with access to modern equipment and the work of specialists capable of carrying out prosthetics.
The Krasnosilka Territorial Community is one of the communities in the south of Ukraine, which has a high potential for the development of agriculture, and also pays significant attention to the initiatives of small and medium-sized businesses. The Community is characterized by the availability of transport infrastructure with transit opportunities, which needs improvement; developed agricultural sector; promising tourist and recreational areas; professional cultural and educational personnel. There are peasant farms in the territory of the Community developing the livestock and grain industries.
The Community plans to further support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, provide social security services and aid to internally displaced persons, create conditions for ensuring the work of social institutions, ecological and man-made safety, infrastructural development and restoration, globalization of the tourist and cultural environment, effective economic space.
List of Sources
- Webpage of the Krasnosilka Territorial Community
- Facebook page of the Krasnosilka Territorial Community
- Facebook page of the Youth Development Vector nongovernmental organization
- Facebook page of the Ivanovo Village Culture Centre
- Facebook page of the Krasnosilka Lyceum