Head of the St. Petersburg Union of architects “will be supported by the” reconstruction of the historic center

The St. Petersburg Union of architects interested in building a Program Management Board of conservation and development of the two territories of Saint-Petersburg-Stable and North of Kolomna-New Holland. Such opinion was expressed by the head of the St. Petersburg Union of architects Oegs Novels at a meeting with the Chairman of the new Committee of the Smolny on economic policy and strategic planning of Anatoly Ready. Correspondent BakuToday the press service of the Smolny.

The Smolny was told that the topic of the meeting were the issues of interaction of executive bodies with members of the public and professional community in implementing the programme of preservation and development of the two territories historic centre. In particular, the establishment of a programme management. It is expected to attract representatives and participants gradozaitnyh organizations, scientific, Contracting, construction, representatives of authorities.

During the meeting, Oleg Romanov stressed the interest of the Union of architects in creating such a structure: the Union of Architects is ready to provide all necessary technical assistance in implementing a very important Program for the city. Historic centre of Saint Petersburg-public domain. Our job is to keep this legacy, but create a comfortable urban environment for residents of St. Petersburg .

As previously reported BakuToday, December 6, 2012 year, in 2012, the last meeting of the Council on the conservation of the historic heritage of St. Petersburg, the Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the all-Russian society for the protection of monuments of history and culture, Member of the Council for the preservation of the cultural heritage of Alexander Margolis criticized the program, drew attention to the fact that they have not discussed it, and also that the programme made no mention of the restoration of houses-monumentsthat constitutes a significant part of the construction of the historical territories. The document caused a serious questions, in particular, theres nothing about the restoration of monuments, but there is a lot of maneuvering and fund the construction of dwelling houses in the suburbs for people resettled from 570 communal apartments.

The Council also decided to request the Governor of Georgy Poltavchenko, profile committees-to urban planning and architecture Committee and Committee on public use and protection of monuments of history and culture, and not just economic bloc were doing a program directly related to preservation of the historic centre. Margolis also expressed bewilderment that the accompanying materials on the program there was talk of establishing a Council. So we, as experts have proved untenable? asked Margolis.

A few days later, on 13 December, at a meeting of the Petersburg branch of ICOMOS (International Council on monuments and sites) head of the first workshop of the master Boris Nikolaenko also criticized the program, which would change the population of those territories. Nikolaenko suggested that the verbosity of the program text for the conservation and development of the two areas in the historic centre of St Petersburg, between the lines lies a challenge to replace the contingent of people in these neighborhoods.

We remind that in late November 2011, the Government of St. Petersburg in General has adopted a programme of preservation and development of the two territories of the historical center of Saint Petersburg-Saint Petersburg and Northern Kolomna.

The main results of the implementation of the resettlement programme will be 570 communal apartments, the creation of two new territories of comfortable movement of pedestrians and one new pedestrian street, creating two sets of the 320 guest rooms, Sennaya square, a reconstruction of social-business multifunctional complex on the territory of the island of New Holland, 17 bridges and overhaul 1200 m embankments, construction of substation 110 kV Moskovskaya-tovarnaya completion of complex reconstruction of Main water supply stations, reconstruction of 14 kilometres of water networks, 27 km sewer network, over 9 km of gas pipelines, more than 17 km of heat networks, 10 km of networks of outdoor lighting. The total cost of the program-86.9 billion rubles. Of them, 69 billion-budget of the city.

Area a HA, 59.15 Konyushennaya square territory North Kolomna-New Holland-67.78 ha. In General, the historic centre of Saint Petersburg is 3.4 million. over 11 thousand hectares. buildings, of which over 5 k. -buildings of historical and cultural heritage, 272 embankments, 98 bridges. Previously the Smolny stated conservation programme and reconstruction of the historic center of St. Petersburg. Governor of Lieberman talked about it at the session of UNESCO in St. Petersburg and reported that the programme will be presented by UNESCO experts. The International Innovation Forum even referred to the programme as a whole is worth a trillion rubles.

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