Izmail wants to acquire 114 hectares to expand the city cemetery

The Izmail City Council plans to approach the Odesa Regional State (Military) Administration regarding a land issue related to the future expansion of the city cemetery. The executive committee has approved the corresponding draft resolution, and on July 7, city council members will consider it at a regular session of the city council.

This was reported by Intent, citing the relevant draft resolution.

The City Council is asking the Odesa Regional State Administration to subdivide a 336.2815-hectare plot of land that is currently state-owned. It is proposed to allocate a separate plot with an approximate area of 114 hectares and change its designated use to expand the city cemetery. The land will subsequently be transferred to the communal ownership of the Izmail territorial community.

The appeal notes that back in 2021, the Izmail City Council approved the expansion of the “Baranivsky Forest” landscape reserve of local significance by 222 hectares. This decision was made with an eye toward preserving the possibility of expanding the new municipal cemetery on Yednosti Street.

As the document emphasizes, as of 2021, the new cemetery was only 30% full after ten years of operation, while other burial sites have practically reached capacity. Specifically, the Central Cemetery is 98% full, the Old Believers’ Cemetery is 100% full, and the Little Ukrainian and Jewish cemeteries have remained closed since 1981.

At the same time, as noted in the appeal, on August 26, 2025, the Odesa Regional State (Military) Administration registered state ownership of a land plot measuring 336.2815 hectares. In the city council’s view, this failed to take into account previous decisions by the regional and city councils regarding the future expansion of the cemetery.

The explanatory note to the draft resolution states that there are currently no other areas within Izmail suitable for establishing a new cemetery in the future. Therefore, the issue of reserving land is strategic for meeting the community’s needs.

After the city council approves the draft resolution at its meeting on July 7, Mayor Andriy Abramchenko will be authorized to sign a corresponding request to the Odesa Regional State Administration on behalf of the Izmail City Council.
 

Антоніна Лубченко