Donetsk, Nov 24 — DAN. Two hundred and fifty single-family houses with a total area of 19,000 square meters will be built in Mariupol, Donetsk People’s Republic Construction and Utilities Deputy Minister Maxim Zhukovsky said on Friday.

“Contracts have been signed for the construction of 240 facilities, ” Zhukovsky said. “Foundation works and the installation of bearing and enclosing structures are underway at 200 sites.”

 The first house with an area of 82 square meters has already been built. The Ministry is expecting the signing of the contacts for the construction of another ten houses, he said.

Earlier reports said that an asphalt plant had been built in the Shakhtyorsk municipal district.*jk