In 2015, Avdiivka Coke (AKHZ) rebuilt 69 residential buildings damaged by shelling, restored 15 social facilities and provided construction materials to 135 private sector home owners to repair their houses. To this end, Metinvest Group channelled UAH 18 million.
The plant conducted repairs in 41 high-rise buildings by reconstructing facades, exterior and bearing walls and re-installing partition walls, stair flights, floor slabs and windows. Also, AKHZ repaired roofs of 20 residential buildings that were damaged by shells and replaced frozen central heating pipes at 8 buildings.
The town’s mainstay helped restore four kindergartens, three secondary schools, an evening school and a music school as well as a drinking water pumping station, district electricity networks and a central municipal hospital. In addition, AKHZ helped rebuild a local community centre, сhildren’s creativity centre and Innovation and Development Centre.
The plant also supplied heating to the town: it overhauled the heat pipeline running from the plant to the town and provided the required materials to the local public utilities to repair and insulate exterior heating networks. Besides, Avdiivka Coke supplied heating to Ukrtelecom local exchange, replaced the damaged communication lines in the basement of 16 high-rise buildings and in the maternity department of the central local hospital. Also, AKHZ bought 1,500 radiators to replace frozen heating pipes in the apartments of socially vulnerable citizens.
AKHZ General Director Musa Magomedov:
“When the first shells landed on Avdiivka, Metinvest’s shareholder Rinat Akhmetov set us a goal to help the town cope with the disaster and bring it back to life. We started working without waiting for peace. We dealt with our financial problems, a shortage of contractors and problems with materials delivery to the town. But most importantly, we coped with the feeling of powerlessness within us. Today children’s laughter is heard in Avdiivka schools and kindergartens again and thousands of local residents are coming back to their warm apartments. This is what makes us continue to work.”