Second floors: the disappearing beauty (PHOTOS)

The regional center on the eve of spring does not seem to be ready to the season, which is considered to be the time of revival and blooming. This applies both to problems with roads, pavements and rubbish, and to buildings, including those in the architectural center.

Second floors of the old buildings are an interesting spectacle. First floors are another story: they are massively adapted for commerce, and often this led to a complete turning of facades, destruction of woodwork and often – covering them with tile (and uzhgorod.in regularly raises this issue).

   Meanwhile, somehow they are taken care of (though mostly such repairs are even worse than the lack of any). But facades on the higher level are quite a different world. Typically, on second floors, apartments still remain, and the buildings there have not undergone major changes and restructuring: we can see there moldings, cornices and exquisite, authentic woodwork … But time is inexorable. And the facades quietly "die" of old age. Sometimes they are just crambling.

The municipality have repeatedly admitted that they do not know what to do with them: second floors mostly house privatized apartments and the city is not going to "repair other people’s facades." The residents themselves obviously are not too eager to do this either, mostly for good reason: the repair of historic buildings is not cheap. And sometimes they complain: in other cities it is common practice when facades in the historic center are restored with full or partial funding from the budget.

"So far, we have one positive result: we appealed to the President and the Prime Minister on the allocation of funds for improvement of the central Uzhgorod on the occasion of the anniversary of the city. We are talking about 70 million, and if they are allocated, we will start to develop the project of reconstruction of the city center," – the first deputy mayor, the curator of public utilities Vitaly Semal said.