Buildings’ technical condition of the Moldavanka district of Оdessa

Abstract

The article is devoted to problems of the Odessa historical center. Moldavanka district has a convenient location to the city center.

The history of the Moldavanka began at the end of the 18th century from a small Moldavian township in the area of the modern Kosvennaya Street and it was recorded on the city plan in 1814. After introduction of the porto franco regime, this region began to settle - after all, the border of the free zone was very close, but Moldavanka did not enter it. The residents of the border’s and customs’ area received huge profits from smuggling. But in 1826 the border of the porto franko was transferred to the Water hollow and Moldavanka finally became the part of the city. Before the revolution, houses in Moldavanka district were built less quality than in the city center - there was a low-cost housing here. These houses were built with limestone foundations. Naturally, such houses after a hundred or more years are not in the best technical condition.

Currently Moldavanka district is built up with old low-rise buildings. There are many architectural monuments that require full or partial immediate reconstruction. Moldavanka still remains the depressed area of the city. The main cause of depression is an extremely worn out old housing stock, which requires an immediate overhaul, or demolition, with the subsequent construction of new houses. Living in emergency houses is not only a deterioration of the life quality, but also a danger for the residents.

The master plan of Odessa provides the quarterly reconstruction of the Moldavanka, in which all buildings of historical and architectural value will be preserved. Other buildings, which condition is good, will also be preserved. Most single-storey and internal buildings, which are in poor technical condition will be demolished. Thus, with the future reconstruction some old houses will remain, the rest of the perimeter is supposed to be low-rise buildings, no more than five floors buildings. In the center of the quarters it is planned to build one higher building than the perimeter buildings. But, unfortunately, the construction of houses in this area is carried out with complete non-compliance with these requirements now. The Moldavanka is densely built up with multi-storey buildings. This leads to permanent accidents of engineering networks and to a traffic collapse. Not to mention the fact that the slopes of this area are also built up in the same way.