Odesa sanatorium on Frantsuzsky Boulevard to be turned into a recreation area

It was decided to turn the former Chuvyrin sanatorium on Frantsuzsky Boulevard into a public park. The investor will pay for all the improvement work.

The decision was made at a meeting of the executive committee of the Odesa City Council.

The deputies decided that the Prymorskyi District Administration should order the development of design and estimate documentation for the arrangement of the territory of the former Chuvyrin sanatorium. During the executive committee meeting, it was clarified that all work would be financed by a private investor. The exact amount of expenses is not yet known.

The head of the Primorskyi administration, Marat Korolev, assured that no construction is planned on the territory - only green spaces and recreation areas, in fact, a park for citizens.

In 2023, the Supreme Court returned to the city the property of the Chuvyrin sanatorium on Frantsuzsky Boulevard worth more than UAH 192 million. Currently, the prosecutor's office is taking additional measures to return two more objects of the sanatorium - the buildings of the Anatra dacha, which were alienated in favor of third parties during the case.

Back in 2020, Intent wrote that, following a lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor's Office of Odesa Region, the court satisfied the claims for land plots on Frantsuzsky Boulevard. The prosecutor's office demanded the return of two plots from the illegal possession of a citizen. At the time, their value was about 22 million. But this is not the whole story.

The Chuvyrin sanatorium has fallen into private hands many times. In 2000, Ukrprofzdravnytsia sold the buildings on the seaside side of Frantsuzsky Boulevard for a symbolic sum of money - about 500 thousand hryvnias - to the Sparta company. The 1.5-hectare plot of land under the historic buildings was registered by the city council for private individuals free of charge. Over time, luxury mansions appeared on this land, and construction of a high-rise building began closer to the sea.

The second phase began in 2005. Businessmen became interested in the buildings on the opposite side of the boulevard from the sea (2.25 hectares between Champagne Lane and the ONU campus). The management of the sanatorium signed a contract with Avikom LLC for the sale and purchase of construction materials worth more than 2 million. However, the materials were never delivered to the sanatorium, and the next day they were sold to another company that was supposed to carry out construction work. Since the payment for the materials was allegedly not made, Avikom filed a lawsuit.

On August 25, 2005, the Kyiv Commercial Court approved a settlement agreement between the parties. According to the agreement, Avikom received the real estate of the sanatorium as payment for the debt. The company was owned by the leader of the pro-Russian Rodina party, Ihor Markov, who is currently on the run in Russia. For four months after the seizure, the office of Markov's associate, TV presenter Hryhoriy Kvasniuk, was located in the medical building of the sanatorium.

Recently, theYunyi Sudoremontnyk children's sanatorium in Odesa was sold for more than 70 million hryvnias. The new owner is mainly interested in the land plot under the buildings, which can be used to build new facilities or resell the complex.

Анна Бальчінос