The installation of temporary wooden structures by the licensed restoration company "MK Reststroy" is continuing at the cultural heritage site of federal significance, the "Tkhaba Yerdy" Temple in mountainous Ingushetia. The structures are necessary for archaeological work scheduled for September.

The facades of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University at 11 Mokhovaya Street will be restored by the end of the year. The facades of the historic building are decorated with stucco moldings depicting animals and plants. Specialists will repair the walls and white stone base, restore the stucco moldings, and replace lost decorative elements.

The Zoological Museum of Moscow State University is one of the largest zoological museums in Russia. Its official founding date is considered to be 1791, when the Natural Cabinet created at Moscow University was transformed into the Natural Science Museum.

In Moscow, at 15 Mokhovaya Street, restoration work has begun on the facades of the National Hotel, a cultural heritage site of federal significance. The paint and plaster layers, stucco and metal decorations will be cleaned and restored.

In 1900, at the beginning of Tverskaya Street, where the Balaklava tavern was located, the Varvarinsky Joint-Stock Society of Landlords acquired the property. The company decided to build a new fashionable hotel on the site, commissioning the design from St. Petersburg architect Alexander Ivanov. On December 29, 1902, the grand opening of the National took place. The first floors housed restaurants, the Chuev confectionery, and the Petukhov brothers' fur store.

The hotel became a favorite place to stay for St. Petersburg residents and foreign guests. Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, ballerina Anna Pavlova, and composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov all stayed here. In 1913, writer Anatole France was a guest, and in 1914, science fiction writer H. G. Wells.

In Kaluga, restoration work has begun on the Countess Salias House, a landmark cultural heritage site of regional significance built in the last third of the 18th century.

The early classicist-style city estate did not stand out from similar buildings until 1886, when it was acquired by its new owner, writer and countess Elizaveta Vasilyevna Salias-de-Tournemir, sister of the outstanding playwright A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin. The countess was always at the center of social life, and her son, Evgeny Andreevich Salias, went down in literary history as the “Russian Alexandre Dumas.”

A magnificent view of the Church of Our Lady of All Who Sorrow, Joy with Pennies, rebuilt according to the design of ACM Group, located at 24 Obukhovskaya Oborona Avenue.

Photo by Tatiana Kotova.

An exhibition dedicated to a single monument of medieval Russian architecture recently opened at the Moscow Museum of Architecture. But what a monument it is—St. George's Cathedral in Yuryev-Polsky, the last surviving church from the pre-Mongol period. It is one of the most mysterious and, at the same time, attractive monuments of our medieval history. It is a monument that requires attention and restoration.

The main value of the exhibition is the opportunity to see the white stone carvings and sculptures kept by the Yuryev-Polsky Museum up close and, for the most part, in good contrasting lighting. It is possible to appreciate the nature of the plasticity—for example, the smooth deepening of the backgrounds and halos, as if “pushing” large figures out of the plane, or, conversely, receding, sinking behind them—but in any case, the result is an enhancement of volume due to reflection, and perhaps even a hint of “distance” from the background.

The exhibition features copies from the 1930s and 1980s - the former are brilliantly executed, and it is not even easy to distinguish them from real stones.

ACM Group continues design work on the restoration of the facades of the main building of Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory. Currently, in collaboration with Tektonika, the company is working on a project to restore and recreate the “golden” glass on the spire and star of Moscow's tallest skyscraper.

Where does Russian President Vladimir Putin usually hold meetings and conferences when he visits St. Petersburg? At the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, of course!

The comprehensive restoration project for the Konstantinovsky Palace and park was carried out by the ACM team between 1999 and 2003.

The project was awarded the Russian Federation State Prize, and the commemorative awards are kept in the ACM office.

According to RBC today, US President Donald Trump yesterday ordered government buildings to be constructed in the classical Greek or Roman style. The decree is entitled “Making Federal Architecture Great Again.”

“The construction of such buildings will visually connect the modern state with the origins of democracy in antiquity,” the document states. The president said that for a century and a half after the founding of the United States, federal architecture “continued to be characterized by beautiful and beloved buildings,” but since the 1960s, the federal government has replaced traditional building designs with “modernist and brutalist” ones.

On the initiative of ACM Group, the historic stone ritual cross and chalice, which had been kept inside the Thaba Erda Temple in mountainous Ingushetia for hundreds of years, were carefully transported to the Malsagov State Museum of Local History in Nazran for temporary storage during the planned restoration work.

Today, the completed restoration project of the Harpe Tower Complex in mountainous Ingushetia by ACM Group has been added to the exhibition of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg in the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The winner of the 2024 Golden Trezzini Award has taken its rightful place in the interior of the Tsar's Bastion of the fortress.

Restorers have begun work on the courtyard facades of the Radio House, a cultural heritage site of federal significance known as the St. Petersburg Noble Assembly, located at the corner of Malaya Sadovaya and Italianskaya Streets in St. Petersburg.

It should be noted that the most complex facades, the front ones, have been restored according to a design by ACM Group.

ACM Group is actively continuing its design work on the restoration of the main building of Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory. The company has strengthened its team with several experienced restoration architects, and new suitcases full of design solutions are already being sent to Moscow today.

ACM Group continues its work to identify unregistered historical buildings in the mountainous region of Ingushetia and add them to the Unified Electronic Database of Monuments in Ingushetia, which is being created by the company with the support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation. Buildings that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites must also be entered into the Register of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia for their legal and actual protection. The existing Register contains 43 cultural heritage sites, including towers and crypts. ACSM Group specialists have identified another 146 historical monuments at Tsori that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites, including unique towers, crypts, farm buildings, and stone steles.

ACM Group has sent 146 applications to the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia to include the identified sites in the Register of newly identified cultural heritage sites of Ingushetia. We hope that within 90 working days, the 146 sites will legally become identified cultural heritage sites of the Russian Federation and take their rightful place among other unique monuments of the country. ACM Group is ready to provide all additional assistance necessary to legally protect the unique structures of the Tsori Tower Complex.

ACM Group continues its work to identify unregistered historical buildings in the mountainous region of Ingushetia and add them to the Unified Electronic Database of Monuments in Ingushetia, which is being created by the company with the support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation. Buildings that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites must also be entered into the Register of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia for their legal and actual protection.

The ACM Group team is completing its work on studying and identifying buildings and steles at the Furtoug Tower Complex. The existing register contains nine cultural heritage sites, including residential towers and crypts. ACM Group specialists have identified 55 more historical monuments at Furtoug that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites, including unique foundations of residential and farm buildings, as well as stone steles.

ACM Group has sent 55 applications to the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia to include the identified sites in the Register of Newly Identified Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia. We hope that within 90 working days, another 55 objects will legally become identified cultural heritage sites of the Russian Federation and take their rightful place among other unique monuments of the country. ACM Group is ready to provide all additional assistance necessary to legally protect the unique structures of the Furtoug Tower Complex.

Today, in 1947, construction began on the main building of Moscow State University in Moscow in honor of the capital's 800th anniversary.

Today, the ACM Group team continues its design work for the ongoing restoration of the facades of the Stalinist skyscraper.

On September 26, Wawelberg Hall will host a luxurious lecture by the Lev Lurie House of Culture on education in the Romanov family. You will learn why some grand dukes had “twos” in their diaries, while others had no grades at all, what punishments were applied to those who did poorly in school, and what role empresses played in the education system.

Wawelberg Hall is located in the magnificent WAWELBERG Hotel, designed by ACM Group, on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg.

Today, in 1801, the foundation stone of Kazan Cathedral was solemnly laid on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg.

It was designed by former serf Andrei Voronikhin and was intended to be the capital's main cathedral. Construction was completed in 1811. The cathedral became a monument to the War of 1812—Mikhail Kutuzov is buried here, and military trophies are also kept here.

Trial diamond drilling has begun on a section of the rock foundation on which the historic towers and crypts of the Vovnushki Tower Complex, which is in a state of disrepair, are located. We hope that, first and foremost, the “treatment” of the rocks will help to preserve this unique Ingush complex.

ACM Group continues its work to identify unregistered historical buildings in the mountainous region of Ingushetia and add them to the Unified Electronic Database of Monuments in Ingushetia, which is being created by the company with the support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation. Buildings that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites must also be entered into the Register of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia for their legal and actual protection.

The existing Register contains 22 cultural heritage sites, including towers and crypts. ACM Group specialists have identified 77 more historical monuments at Meller that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites, including unique foundations of towers and farm buildings, as well as stone steles.

ACM Group has submitted 77 applications to the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites in Ingushetia to include the identified sites in the Register of Newly Identified Cultural Heritage Sites in Ingushetia. We hope that within 90 working days, another 77 objects will legally become identified cultural heritage objects of the Russian Federation and take their rightful place among other unique monuments of the country. ACM Group is ready to provide all additional necessary assistance to legally protect the unique buildings of the Meller Tower Complex.

We would like to remind you that thanks to the support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation, a charitable project from ACM Group, and, of course, the initiative of many interested people, the unique stone crypt of the Meller complex, which preserved historical artifacts, was restored last year.

The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve has shown how restoration work is progressing at the Monplaisir Palace, which will be closed to visitors from 2023.

Today, the paintings on the ceilings and cornices, the gilded plaster moldings, the parquet flooring, and the brickwork of the walls are being restored, and the stucco decoration of the ceilings is being cleaned.

Built in the Dutch tradition, the palace was personally designed by Emperor Peter I, who made several sketches and approved the layout. Early Baroque masters Andreas Schlüter, Johann Braunstein, Jean-Baptiste Leblon, and Niccolò Micetti worked on the construction.