On Saturday, August 4, unknown persons cut down more than 200 trees on the territory of the former Reception House on the Gagarin plateau. Local residents and social activists argue that among the cut down trees a significant number were healthy and beautiful. This territory is rented by the company "Dauphin", which is going to build here two residential high-rise buildings.

In his Facebook social activist ecologist Vladislav Balinsky writes: "The occupation of Odessa continues. Primorsky region as a result of illegal corruption development of the coast and the absence of urban planning, in the near future will become uninhabitable. God grant that on the Gagarin plateau there are no man-made disasters and human victims. Now, and the Helicopter with the help of Trukhanov destroy this unique historical district of Odessa. So, 04. 08. 2018, about ten young people with chainsaws within half an hour destroyed more than two hundred trees located in the park area of ??the Reception House of the Odessa City Council, which was previously for a pittance transferred to OOO Dauphin, owned by Mr. Trukhanov's companion - Galanternik V. AND! "Public activist, head of the State Enterprise" Let's Save Odessa Sami "Yuri Nikitin comments on what happened as follows on Facebook:" Trees are a pity. Sorry for the wonderful area in which I lived 30 years, but since 2006 I try to avoid the party. By 2014, he had already been assassinated, and today he becomes a place where one can not live. People who own apartments in new buildings do not mind at all.

Freely or by stupidity - they are accomplices in the destruction of Arcadia (district). You wanted to live in this, live as you can ".

We add that at a hardware meeting in the City Hall and. the main municipal ecologist Vitaly Denisov could not answer the question whether the felling. "It's hard for me to comment on the law whether it was done or not. I think that this should be decided by the police and other bodies, "said the head of the department of ecology.