new school, with an area of 4,870 square meters, fully meets the requirements of the "New Ukrainian School" concept: it is designed for 520 school students and equipped with a professional teaching staff. In total, the school has 25 modern classrooms, 2 woodworking and metalworking workshops, a library, sports and assembly halls, a comfortable dining hall and a sports ground with an artificial surface. In addition, the project envisages the school's heat supply from a solid fuel and gas boiler houses. The cost of the project was 57.42 million hryvnas (approx. 2.2 million USD). Prokopenko paid special attention to the economic development of the Chernihiv Oblast during his tenure. One of the priorities was the development of agriculture in the region. According to the results of 2020, a record harvest of grain was collected in the Chernihiv region - more than 5 million tons. Grain and leguminous agricultural crops were grown on an area of almost 800,000 hectares. The average yield was 6.3 t/ha, and the yield of corn, in particular, was 7.48 t/ha. Chernihiv Oblast has become one of the top 3 best regions of Ukraine for milk production - farms of the Chernihiv region produced 245,000 tons of milk per year, of which 51% was extra grade milk that meets the European Union high-quality standards. Another direction for economic growth was the development of industry and industrial parks, in particular, the creation of the first industrial park in the Chernihiv region in the city of Mena. As governor, Andrii Prokopenko contributed to the equipping of modern weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in particular the improvement of Ukrainian-made weapons. Prokopenko initiated the inclusion of the Chernihiv historical landscape in the UNESCO World Heritage. In particular, it includes unique monuments of architecture and archeology. Among them is one of the oldest preserved monumental stone buildings of Ukraine, the main building of the Principality of Chernigov - Transfiguration Cathedral, Chernihiv commissioned in the early 1030s by Mstislav of Chernigov and completed several decades later by his brother, Yaroslav the Wise. Local government advocacy In 2021 Andrii Prokopenko was elected Deputy Executive Director of Association of Amalgamated Territorial Communities that represents and advocates local government in Ukraine. Volunteer work Since beginning 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine joined as volunteer to Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), which provides emergency medical care to wounded soldiers and civilians in the war zone.