The Municipal Enterprise “Spetskombinat – Ritual Service” of the Rivne City Council was established in June 1975 to meet the public’s need for funeral services, maintain burial grounds in accordance with current regulations, improve city cemeteries, and supply the market with funeral-related goods and services.
The enterprise maintains 10 cemeteries covering a total area of nearly 100 hectares. Proper sanitary conditions and aesthetic appearances are consistently maintained at military memorials located within the “Dubenske” and “Hrabnyk” cemeteries and the Alley of Heroes at the “Nove” cemetery, as well as at all sites featuring memorial plaques and monuments dedicated to prominent figures in the city’s history.
Maintenance activities include sweeping paths, snow removal, tree trimming and removal, lawn mowing, and the loading and hauling away of waste.
The enterprise offers a comprehensive range of funeral services, enabling clients to handle all necessary documentation and service arrangements in a single location.
The enterprise operates a well-equipped production facility that manufactures funeral products—such as wreaths, coffins, and crosses—and performs stone processing. Production processes are continuously improved, with new product types being developed and introduced, all while taking into account the opinions, tastes, and preferences of customers. An organized retail network comprising three stores that sell funeral-related products to the public and accept orders for funeral services.
The enterprise’s main activities include:
- organizing funerals and providing funeral services based on service orders/contracts;
- retail sale of funeral-related goods and other merchandise;
- providing transportation services for the deceased and accompanying persons;
- operating a specialized team to transport the bodies of individuals who died alone, had no next of kin, or died tragically (subject to available funding);
- carrying out landscaping and improvement works at burial sites and adjacent areas (subject to available funding);
- maintaining burial sites in accordance with established rules and sanitary standards, and organizing grave maintenance services for the public;
- ensuring the operation of burial sites;
- maintaining and improving municipal cemeteries (subject to available funding);
- manufacturing funeral-related items to meet public demand;
- performing construction, installation, repair, and contracting work;
- repair and restoration work;
- providing motor transport services.
The enterprise conducts its operations in accordance with its Charter.