A new subterranean school is part of a plan to entice exiles back to Ukraine’s second-largest city
Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, in north-eastern Ukraine, has decided the time has come to dig deep — literally. With the nearest Russian rocket batteries just 40 seconds flight time away and still targeting his city 20 months after Moscow’s full-scale invasion, the grizzled politician has ordered workers to build an underground school for up to 1,000 children by the end of the year.
Olga Shapoval, the chief executive, said while most of the city’s estimated 50,000 software engineers had dispersed last year all but one of the city’s nearly 500 tech companies were still thriving. This year though “is not so optimistic” because of the war and also fears of recession in the US where most of their clients are based. Also, Kharkiv has lost the economic boost via the discretionary spending of the engineers, among the best-paid workers in the country.
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