A Japanese anime set in St. Petersburg has been released. The thriller from Geno Studio “Your Form” is about an alternative future with cyberpunk elements and with “smart threads” for recording memories. St. Petersburg is at least in the first episode, which shows the subway, the Griboedov Canal, the Galereya shopping mall, Palace Square and other places in the city.

Great news from fellow restorers. UNESCO has completed the restoration of Mosul's cultural heritage sites damaged by ISIL.

Al Sa'a Monastery, founded in 1870 after the first papal mission sent to Mesopotamia, received new bells as part of extensive work to bring it back to life. The Dominican institution has historically served a variety of functions, housing a church, schools, seminary, hospital and more.

The monastery was home to an archive of ancient religious manuscripts that was narrowly saved shortly before the building was turned into an ISIL prison and smuggled out of the city. The monastery's priest - Najib Michael, now Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul - and his team, members of the community, managed to do so.

On the left: Al Sa'a Monastery under restoration. On the right: after the work is completed.

On April 17, the International Restoration Center in Rozhdestvenskoe will open the exhibition “Fortresses of the Leningrad Region”, which will tell about 10 fortresses - the Annensky fortifications, Ivangorod, Koporsk, Lyubshanskaya, Staroladozhskaya, Tiverskaya, Yamgorodskaya, Oreshk, Trongzund and Korela.

It is Korela, located in Priozersk, that will be the center of attention. The fortress has preserved a unique symbol of Peter the Great's victories in the Northern War - the gates upholstered with Swedish lats. The restorers of the International Center have already completed the preservation of one of the gates and visitors will be able to examine it in detail and learn about the past works.

The famous St. Michael's Church on the Middle Prospect of Vasilievsky Island will be restored and lost elements and details will be returned.

According to Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, the facades of the Lutheran church are dirty, and some fragments of the walls differ in color from the historical ones. There are cracks and destruction of the plaster layer.

The church was built in 1874-1876 in neo-Gothic style according to the project of engineer Bulmering.

A unique historical photograph depicting the repair of the flat roof of a dwelling tower in the North Caucasus. The roof, which probably needed replacement of the clay roofing, was repaired by the inhabitants in an economic way and as it appears had no stone parapet.

On April 24, the St. Petersburg State Academy of Arts and Industry named after A.L. Stieglitz will be the center of discussion of current redevelopment issues. A.L. Stieglitz Academy will become the center of discussion of current redevelopment issues. On this day in the Youth Hall of the Academy will be held the second conference "Architectural Heritage. Preservation for Development“, organized jointly with the World Club of Petersburgers and the organizing committee of the International Award ”Golden Trezzini".

The event is intended to become a platform for dialog on methods of preservation and integration of cultural heritage objects into the modern urban fabric through redevelopment projects.

The Agency for Management and Use of Historical and Cultural Monuments and the A.V. Shchusev State Research Museum of Architecture will open an exposition of architectural projects for adapting cultural heritage objects to modern use, prepared within the framework of the student competition “Patrimony”.

The exhibition will be held at the A.V. Shchusev State Research Museum of Architecture in Moscow, 5/25 Vozdvizhenka Street, April 11-30, 2025.

The exposition will present innovative solutions for adapting architectural monuments for modern use.

Visitors will be able to see how historical buildings are transformed into modern cultural spaces: museums, community centers and recreational areas.

The Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments includes the Marine Station on Vasilievsky Island in the list of newly identified objects of cultural heritage. This is a continuation of the joint work of the Committee and the St. Petersburg Union of Architects to identify the best examples of Soviet architecture of the 1950-1980 period.

The station was built in 1984 according to the project of the 12th workshop of the LenNIIproject under the direction of Vitaly Sokhin.

The Nikolsky Market building on Sadovaya Street in St. Petersburg before and after restoration. For several years, ACM researched and developed a restoration project for the former market building, which today houses hotels and restaurants. The project was finalized by Foundry Part 91.

“ACM Group” will take part in the International Forum “REBUS” in the IT-park named after B. Rameyev. B. Rameyev IT Park in Kazan in early July 2025.

One of the main topics of the forum will be the topic of heritage preservation, where the following issues will be touched upon:

- digital technologies for memory protection: how to preserve historical heritage in the era of global change.

- Digital twins of historic cities: new opportunities for research and restoration of cultural heritage.

- New Challenges: a preservation program for cultural heritage sites.

- Cultural heritage sites outside major cities: problems of preservation and restoration.

- Digital Bridges to History: modern approaches to the promotion of historical, cultural and architectural heritage.

- Digital technologies in the protection of cultural heritage: integrated solutions on the example of modernist sites and mosaic panels.

The Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments refused to include the Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall on Ligovsky Prospekt and the Nekrasovsky Market on Nekrasova Street, 52 in the list of cultural heritage objects.

The Grand Concert Hall “Oktyabrsky” was built in 1967 specially for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, on the site of the demolished Greek church of St. Great Martyr Dmitry Solunsky. Nekrasovsky Market was built in 1956 on the site of the market of the early twentieth century.

Restoration work on Ingushetia's tower complexes will resume soon.

We hope that all contractors will install normal scaffolding this year so that ACM Group specialists can safely carry out author's supervision!

On April 29 in the conference hall of the Central House of Architects on Granatny Lane in Moscow will premiere a film narrative from the film company “Syntez-Integra” - "Wooden Architecture of Russia. Past. Present. Future."

Leading Russian restorers and experts, architects and volunteers talk about the prospects, urgent problems and glorious past of wooden architecture.

14 expeditions, 200 monuments and 4 series - “House”, “Temple”, ‘Museum’ and “New Wooden”.

Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin met in the Kremlin with Vitaly Mutko, CEO of DOM. RF" Vitaly Mutko, who reported to the head of state on the work of the company to restore 1000 objects of cultural heritage by 2030. This duty is entrusted by the presidential order of March 30 to "DOM. RF".

An important fragment of the dialog:

V. Putin: This is such a sensitive topic.

V. Mutko: A sensitive topic, everyone is looking at it.

During the planned construction of the educational and sports complex of the University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in the courtyard of the dormitory at 123 Fontanka Embankment, it is planned to muse a part of the architectural fragments of the dismantled historical building of the 19th century Novo-Alexandrovsky Market. The remains of the basement parts of the market are included by the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments in the list of identified objects of cultural heritage.

The Krupskaya Palace on Obukhovskaya Oborona Avenue in St. Petersburg will receive the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.

The Workers' Club of the Rabochy spinning and weaving factory is one of the first clubs created to promote the ideas of socialist revolution and equality, which were to become the center of cultural and educational work for the proletariat. The construction of the club began in 1927 according to the project of architect S. Ovsyannikov, the grand opening was timed to the 10th anniversary of the revolution. In 1963 the institution was transformed into the Palace of Culture. Since 1991 the building has housed a book fair.

“ACM Group” is preparing to start restoration works on the building of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory in Moscow, which is the tallest of the seven Stalinist high-rises built. The height with the spire is 235 meters over 32 floors of the central building.

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB RF) issued a permit to ACM Group to fly unmanned aerial vehicles in the Jeirakh and Sunzhensky districts of mountainous Ingushetia in order to conduct research and development work.

Two lectures about saving and restoring unique historical stained glass windows will be held in St. Petersburg.

On April 15 at the Bronnitskaya library, and on April 24 at the library “On Stremyannaya” you can be inspired by successful examples of saving stained glass windows by residents of houses.

"How to save stained glass in your home" at Bronnitskaya, 16 and "Fragile beauty in the hands of residents and professional restorers" at Stremyannaya, 20.

In the course of works on capital repair of the arch of the former profitable house of Shcherbakov on Bronnitskaya Street, 14 in St. Petersburg chemical research will be conducted, then the process of restoration of unique finds will begin. unexpectedly discovered fragments of historical painting. In the near future, samples will be taken and chemical and technological research will be conducted, then the process of restoration of unique finds will begin.

The doors of the museum “The Sovereign's Pleasures” are open in Peterhof's park on Pravlenskaya Street, 1.

Nine halls present a large-scale exposition devoted to the court culture of festivities and entertainment. In the exposition you can see personal belongings of Emperor Peter the Great, imperial bicycles, medals and theatrical costumes. The route of the exposition is well thought out and the quality is excellent.