The well-known journalist Mykola Nesenyuk epically described the reconstruction of the Rivne stadium "Avangard" on his Facebook.
Mykola NesenyukI think that each of you has traveled in an organized way at least once in your life. And it means that during excursions I heard stories about the history of the construction of this or that temple. The most famous of them have been built for centuries. In the same Barcelona, the world-famous Catholic Church of the Holy Family is still being built and will be built for an unknown amount of time. So you will find out who and when this temple was conceived, who and when did the project, who and when started construction, when and why this construction stopped, resumed and stopped again. You will be shown how it should have been and how it happened, and several related stories will be told.
What is interesting is that it mainly concerns the temples built by the government. With private money, these temples were erected and are being erected quite quickly, qualitatively and without particular problems. Because the money is yours! When they are not their own, but budgetary or from donations, then the matter is delayed. We will not delve into distant history. Let us recall the Intercession Cathedral in Rivne, which was started to be built back in 1991. How much money and from what sources was spent on it, no one will ever tell you. Because there were the state, regional, and city budgets... No one has ever counted that money and will never count it. Unless two hundred years from now, when there will be no more interested persons and their descendants in this world, someone will get to the truth and write an exciting detective story about it. Or at least an interesting text for the tour guide to entertain the numerous guests of our city.
About the same thing happened with the city stadium. The story of its construction and destruction, followed by another construction and destruction, and now something in between, could become the basis for an adventure novel. It is enough to remember how, at the beginning of the seventies, mighty poplars were cut down around the stadium, which prevented the construction of lighting towers. No one thought that these poplars were planted there by the Poles even before the Second World War, to take moisture from the swampy ground. As a result, the stadium soaked in moisture for twenty years and rotted from the inside, which greatly surprised the builders who were supposed to carry out their reconstruction. The walls just fell under their feet.
Now the same thing is being done - the metal roof, which was supposed to protect the newly built main tribune from rain and snow, has mysteriously disappeared from the project. And that means this tribune will also rot someday. But it will not be soon. So far, the city budget allocates new and new funds for construction and reconstruction, the end of which is not in sight. But the story will be interesting for guests of Rivne! I'm not kidding! In the English "Newcastle", each tribune of the local stadium has its own name and its own almost detective story. I heard her there from a local tour guide. So how are we worse?
Mykola Nesenyuk
