June sketches of the Egikal Tower Complex in mountainous Ingushetia by architect-restorer Ksenia Lunkan of ACM Group.

US President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO because of the organization's “anti-American vector,” the White House said. White House deputy press secretary Anne Kelly told The New York Post that the organization supports “controversial, divisive cultural and social goals” that are “completely contrary to common sense” and the policies of the current US authorities.

This is a personal matter between Trump and the U.S., and the ACM Group is not against expanding the list of UNESCO sites, especially unique Russian cultural and architectural sites.

The Karelia pavilion opened at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy after restoration. The cultural heritage object is one of the four pavilions at VDNKh, where wood carvings were used and the only one decorated with wooden sculptures. In 2023, restoration of the building began - granite columns, the original color scheme of facades, carved front doors with northern motifs, plaster bas-reliefs and bronze chandeliers inside were restored.

Now the pavilion hosts an immersive multimedia exhibition “Living Masterpieces of Russian Fairy Tales” dedicated to book illustration by Russian artists of the last third of the 19th - early 20th century.

In Irkutsk, work is being carried out to restore a cultural heritage object - a mansion on Zhelyabova Street, 4. The work should be completed by the end of the year. During the restoration, it is planned to preserve at least 20% of the old logs and decorative elements of the historic building. Before the work started, the wooden house was completely dismantled and labeled. An excavation for new foundations was prepared on the site. The mansion was built at the end of the XIX century according to the project of Irkutsk architect Vladimir Rassushin on the funds of merchant Ivan Khaminov.

The old wine warehouses of the Kristall plant in Moscow are recognized as an object of cultural heritage as an example of industrial architecture of the XIX-XX centuries, built on the bank of the Yauza River in the Lefortovo district.

The complex of brick buildings of “Moscow Treasury Wine Warehouse N1” of red wine color), designed for the production and storage of alcoholic beverages, is located on the bend of the Yauza River on Samokatnaya Street. The earliest buildings date back to 1851-1876 . These buildings appeared long before the state monopoly on the production and sale of vodka was introduced in Russia. This happened in 1894 on the initiative of Sergei Witte, who headed the Ministry of Finance. In 1914, during the First World War, the restrictions became even tighter - a dry law was introduced. However, the wine warehouses continued to work, although they adjusted their profile. In part, they manufactured products for medical and technical needs and for export abroad, and part of the buildings were used to house the wounded. After the October Revolution the plant resumed its work in 1925. During the Great Patriotic War the hulls were completely reoriented to the bottling of Molotov cocktail and production of dry alcohol.

In Kaliningrad, restoration of an old German villa on Telmana Street, an object of cultural heritage of regional significance, has been completed. The restorers restored sections of the walls, replaced windows and doors, and returned the historical color to the facades.

The two-story villa with a hip roof was built in Koenigsberg on Augusta-Victoria Alley in the early twentieth century.

The Central State Archive of Art and Literature of St. Petersburg has handed over unique photographs of the Tsori Tower Complex in mountainous Ingushetia in 1938 from the expedition of architect R.L. Rotach to the historians of ACM Group.

The most important aspect of the valuable photographs are the structures of the historical stone wall, which protected the tower complex, and which have been lost to date.

The St. Petersburg State Committee for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Regional Significance recognized the Andrei Vasilyev Mansion on Bolshoi Prospect of Petrograd side between Kolpinskaya and Strelninskaya Streets as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.

The building was constructed in 1878-1879 according to the project of architect Vladimir Shalamov. In 1914 the mansion was remodeled for a “big cinematograph” according to the project of architect Vasily Shaub. In 1915, the building was opened as a miniature theater “Trocadero”, where movies and divertissements were shown. Since 1959, the building has been occupied by a children's music school.

Restorers started overhaul and restoration of the spire of the main building of Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory in Moscow. Today, specialists are cleaning metal structures and preparing for the production of new colored glass, while architects of ACM Group are promptly preparing a project for the spire restoration.

The MSU building is the tallest of all Stalinist high-rises. The length of the spire is 58 meters, which is approximately equal to a 16-storey house.

Restoration work on the main building of Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory in Moscow is in full swing. In St. Petersburg, ACM Group continues design work on the facades of the majestic high-rise.

A mansion on Bolshaya Polyanka Street became an object of cultural heritage.

The main house and an outbuilding of the 19th century mansion were included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites. The estate belonged to the princes Baryatinsky, in 1793 it was acquired together with the neighboring plot by the State Councillor Mikhail Bezsonov. Until 1812 there was a wooden main house with a portico flanked by two wings. The southern stone wing survived the fire of 1812 and survived to this day. In the early twentieth century there was a sanatorium where Sergey Yesenin underwent hydrotherapy, communicated with patients and staff and even organized poetry evenings.

Earlier this year, specialists from ACM Group inspected the mansion and today they are ready to continue research and design work.

Over the past weekend, ACM Group specialists conducted an author's supervision of the Furtoug, Eban, Garak, Tumgi, Keli and Doshkhakle tower complexes in mountainous Ingushetia. There were practically no remarks to the contractors, and restoration work is continuing.

Restoration work has officially begun in the Great Choral Synagogue at 2 Lermontovsky Avenue in St. Petersburg.

The contractor started installing scaffolding back in June. They plan to complete the work by the end of next year. During this time the dome will be restored, the roofing and rafter system will be restored, the granite and limestone plinth and granite porch, brickwork, stucco and columns of the entrance will be restored.

The last restoration of the synagogue took place at the end of the twentieth century with the participation of the ACM team.

The monument to Gagarin was included in the state register of cultural heritage objects.

The monument by sculptor Pavel Bondarenko, dedicated to Yuri Gagarin, was opened in Moscow on July 04, 1980 for the XXII Summer Olympic Games. It was made of titanium, which is used in the construction of spaceships. The place for the monument was not chosen by chance - it was along Leninsky Prospekt that Gagarin entered the city from Vnukovo airport to report on the results of the first space flight.

The historic building at the corner of 23 Bolshoi Prospect, Vasilievsky Island and Line 7 has had its gutters replaced, the color of which is heartwarming.

The corner plot on Vasilievsky Island at the end of the XVIII century belonged to a prominent statesman, Senator V.Y.Novosiltsev, who was the president of the Manufaktur-Collegium and built a three-story stone house on this place.

Since the middle of the XIX century the building was occupied by the inn “Golden Deer” with a hotel, called simply “Deer”. Its garden, enclosed by a fence, occupied a part of the present boulevard on the avenue. The garden had a bowling alley, tables and a band played. In the fall of 1863, one of the hotel rooms of the inn was rented by nineteen-year-old I.E. Repin, who first came from Chuguev. From the 1830s the building was owned by the Zhernov family. In the 1960s the house was added on.

“ACM Group” continues scientific research at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University on Mokhovaya Street. The photo shows the results of laser scanning of the interior of the main front staircase of the historic building.

Yesterday, the Federation Council held a meeting on the issue of conservation of cultural heritage objects in unsatisfactory condition.

The regions were tasked with identifying and compiling the most complete lists of cultural heritage sites requiring conservation and restoration, submitting applications for federal funds allocated for these purposes, and preparing "road maps" for each site.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation represented by Deputy Minister Vladimir Osintsev made it clear that given the large number of monuments, federal funds alone will not be able to solve this problem, additional efforts of the regions and private investors are needed.

Based on the results of the work carried out by the bodies of protection of cultural heritage objects, ratings will be compiled. Those sub-regions of the Federation that are doing this work better will be shown, praised and noted. Those that do this work poorly or not at all will be in the "red" zone and they will also be shown...

Already on August 07, Nikolskie Ryady invites you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of romance and jazz in the open air at the Summer Jazz program. The most famous hits about love from the repertoire of Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and other maestros of jazz will be performed this evening by a rising star of the St. Petersburg stage, singer and actress of the Alexandrinsky Theater Sofia Shustrova and talented musicians.

Jazz from Nikolskie Ryady, and the project to adapt the courtyard space from ACM Group.

Restoration work begins on the Church of St. Tatiana at Moscow State University on Mokhovaya Street. The church was built in 1833 according to the project of architect E. Tyurin. The church is the first university church in the name of Martyr Tatiana, which laid the foundation for the tradition of Tatiana's churches in higher educational institutions.

In the meantime, the architects of “ACM Group” continue the restoration project of the famous temple.

The Shchusev Museum of Architecture handed over a number of unique historical photographs of tower complexes in mountainous Ingushetia to the historians of ACM Group.

The photo shows the Dukhurgisht Tower Complex in 1927, captured by L.P. Semyonov's expedition.

The restoration of an old German mansion built in the early twentieth century has been completed at 39 Telmana Street in Kaliningrad. Historically, the building is located next to Duke Albrecht's kirche, demolished right after the Great Patriotic War, and the community church house, which has survived to this day.