country. The average pension in the city is ₴423.15 ($83.82). Commercial debts in the city were reduced in 2005 to 1.1% or ₴5.1 million ($1.01 million). Income from services rendered for 9 months of 2005 was ₴860.4 million ($107.4 million) and the volume of retail trade for the same period was ₴838.7 million ($166.1 million). The city's enterprises for 9 months of 2005 recorded a positive financial result (profit) of ₴3.2 billion ($634 million), which is 23.6% more than in the prior year (2004). Culture Cultural institutions Theatres Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre. In 2003 the oldest theater in the region celebrated its 125th anniversary. For its contribution to the spiritual education of theater, in 2000 it was awarded the laureate in the competition «Gold Scythian». The theatre was largely destroyed by Russian airstrikes on 16 March 2022. Cinemas Pobeda ("Victory") – now closed Savona Multiplex Palaces of culture (recreation centres) (together with so-called clubs – 16): Metallurgov ("Metallurgists") of Ilyich Steel & Iron Works Azovstal of Azovstal Steel & Iron Works Iskra ("Spark") of Azovmash Machine-builder Concern MarKokhim (Mariupol Coke Chemistry) Moryakov ("Sailors") Stroitel ("Builders") Palace of children's and youth art ("Palace of Children art") Municipal Palace of Culture Showrooms and museums Mariupol Regional Museum Kuindzhi Art Exhibition Museum of Folk Life (formerly, the museum of Andrey Zhdanov) Museum halls of the industrial enterprises and their divisions, establishments and the organisations of city, and others. Libraries (35) Korolenko Central Library; Gorky Central Children's Library; Serafimovich Library (The oldest library in the city); And also: Gaydar Library, Honchar Library, Hrushevsky Library, Krupskaya Library, Kuprin Library, Lesya Ukrainka Library, Marshak Library, Morozov Library, Novikov-Priboy Library, Pushkin Library, Svetlov Library, Turgenev Library, Franko Library, Chekhov Library, Chukovsky Library, the libraries of industrial enterprises, establishments, and the organisations of the city. Art and literature Creative Organisations of Artists, Union of Journalists of Mariupol, the Literary Union «Azovye» (from 1924, about 100 members), and others. Works of Mariupol poets and writers: N. Berilov, A. Belous, G. Moroz, A. Shapurmi, A. Savchenko, V. Kior, N. Harakoz, L. Kiryakov, L. Belozerova, P. Bessonov, and A. Zaruba are written in the Russian, Ukrainian, and Greek languages. Presently, 10 members of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine live in the city. Festivals From 2017 Mariupol has hosted the MRPL City Festival, an annual music festival, held every August on Pishchanka beach. The festival began in 2017 as "the