Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to revise regulations on restoration of cultural heritage objects by the end of 2025 in order to reduce the time for investors. According to the president, many objects are dying because business cannot invest money due to restrictions. "Some people think that business should not be allowed. What, then, is it necessary for the objects to be destroyed?" - he emphasized.

Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that by May 15 a roadmap for revising restoration standards should be ready, and by the end of 2026 the work itself should be completed. According to her, 13975 monuments are now in unsatisfactory condition. In response, the president gave a task to speed up the process of reducing bureaucracy. "Let's work out exactly by the end of the year on the norms. What is impossible now, let's do it in 2026".

Restoration work continues under the project of ACM Group at the Lazarevskaya Church, a cultural heritage site of federal significance on the territory of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery.

In Kazan, the restoration of a cultural heritage site of regional significance - the house where Leo Tolstoy lived in 1845-1846 - has begun. The three-storey historical building on Bolshaya Krasnaya Street, where the Institute of Education Development of Tatarstan is now located, has lost many historical elements.

During the restoration work, specialists will reinforce the foundations and walls, repair the roof, and recreate wooden window fills with historic glazing. The forthcoming restoration will not only preserve the building, but also return the house to its appearance close to the time when young Leo Tolstoy lived there.

Today is the birthday of Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov (May 15, 1753 - January 3, 1804) - a talented Russian architect, follower of Palladianism, one of the brightest and most versatile representatives of the Russian Enlightenment.

Nikolai Alexandrovich - one of the erudite and witty people of his time. He harmoniously combined talents of a graphic artist, engraver, historian, botanist and horticulturist, poet, playwright, translator, musician.

He also studied archaeology, chemistry, geology, mechanics, collected folk songs, created a verse translation of Anacreontic songs. All sciences he studied independently, by books. He also independently mastered drawing, painting, engraving and architecture.

N.A.Lvov left a vast creative heritage, becoming the author of many iconic objects of Russian classical architecture in St. Petersburg and its environs, in Moscow, in his homeland - in Torzhok, and in many other cities.

Priory Castle, Holy Trinity Church “Kulich and Easter”, Derzhavin Estate, Church of St. Elijah the Prophet on Porokhovy, Post Office building - this is only a very small list of Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov's creations.

“ACM Group also had a chance to touch the architect's legacy when developing the restoration project of the Priory Park in Gatchina.

The construction of a cottage village of ten individual houses under the project of ACM Group in Syargi village, Leningrad region, has started.

E.F. Lopatina's mansion on Maliy Karetny Lane, 11, in Moscow is included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites.

The two-storey dwelling house with a basement and an attic was erected in 1889 at the expense of a peasant woman Ekaterina Lopatina according to the project of architect Ya.Makhonina. In 1912 the plot with the house was purchased by the merchant of the first guild, hereditary honorary citizen Yakov Alshvang, who arranged a part of the territory for the production area of the sewing factory. After 1917, the Profintern experimental-technical sewing factory was located here.

Investors were offered to participate in the restoration of more than a thousand cultural heritage objects on the digital platform heritage.dom.rf.

The total area of monument buildings is more than 1 million square meters.

The digital platform was developed by the state-owned company Dom RF with the support of the Ministry of Culture to attract investors to the preservation of cultural heritage in poor condition. The platform provides information on objects in federal, regional and municipal ownership. The objects must be included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Objects, be in unsatisfactory condition and meet a number of other requirements. The RF House emphasized - “We understand that one of the key tools to increase the interest and motivation of investors to work with the OKN today remains a preferential lending rate. Already five credit organizations are ready to give credits for work with monuments”.

To date, in the catalog of OKN on the platform collected 1009 objects from 72 regions. The leader in number is the Perm Territory - 55 objects. It is followed by the Yaroslavl region - 46, Novgorod region - 46, Vologda and Kostroma - 45 each.

It's time for RF House to ask “ACM Group” to provide information on another 1000 objects...

The contractor for the reconstruction of the historical entrance to the Priory Park has been determined. “ACM Group” is preparing for author's and technical supervision, as well as scientific supervision of the works.

The Tom Sawyer Fest team in Nizhny Novgorod has chosen a new site for the upcoming season.

Work will start here from today! At first, the house needs to be cleaned and late plaster removed from the stone plinth.

“Tom Sawyer Fest” for many years already continues the work on restoration of historical environment in different cities of Russia by the forces of not indifferent people and volunteers.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk that new cracks have appeared on the towers of the unique Vovnushki Tower Complex in the mountains of Ingushetia. Today specialists of “ACM Group” flew a drone over the combat towers and the rocks on which they stand. The results of today's flights will be “overlaid” on the flights of two years ago and all cracks will be assessed and compared.

A unique photo of a stone fortress with gates and a round tower with loopholes at the place of passage into a mountain gorge of Ingushetia from the side of the Georgian Military Road. In the background, the Furtog Tower Complex with a dominant combat tower can be seen in the distance. Yesterday, the specialists of “ACM Group” studied the location of the fortress - no visible traces were found after the modern post and roads were built.

The restoration of the facades of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Peterhof will be completed next year. Restorers are starting the final stage of the facade restoration - crack injection, restoration of ceramic tiles and work with brick decorations.

At the cultural heritage site of federal significance “Tower of the Lower Grids” of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, under the project of ACM Group, a gersa - a lowering lattice of fortress gates - a fortification element for protection from the external enemy was installed. The gersa was recreated and installed over the culvert of the tower, at the place where the Kamenets River leaves the monastery.

“ACM Group” will take part in the Caucasus Investment Forum, held this year on May 25-27 in Mineralnye Vody.

The restoration of the historic buildings of Moscow State University on Mokhovaya Street in Moscow has begun with the direct participation of ACM Group.

The work will take place in the buildings of the Faculty of Psychology and Arts, as well as the Institute of Asian and African Countries. In addition, the main building of Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory will undergo a major overhaul. All works are planned to be completed by the end of 2025.

One of the latest projects of ACM Group is the restoration of the Nazran Fortress, a cultural heritage site of federal significance in the city of Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia.

The scaffolding was removed from the building of the Russian National Library at 36 Fontanka Embankment and the main facade was finally revealed - in some places in an even more deplorable condition than it was before the restoration began.

In April, the contractor Stroitelnoe Delo SG notified the client to terminate the contract unilaterally due to the incomplete and poor quality of the restoration project. The Committee for State Control, Utilization and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments commented that in the course of the work, the need for additional research was revealed, including the possibility of recreating the lost stucco composition with the double-headed eagle on the pediment.

The restoration of the building of the Samara Academic Drama Theater named after Maxim Gorky will take two years. The historical building will be restored to its late 19th century appearance.

It is supposed to reveal the preserved facades from the side of Frunze and Kuibyshev Streets, as well as Chapaev Square. On the site of the farmyard it is planned to recreate Pushkin pavilions to provide access to the new small hall to be built in the underground space.

The specialists of ACM Group recently filmed the current state of rocks and towers of the unique Vovnushki complex in the mountainous Ingushetia using drones.

The results of the new flights were combined with the results of two years ago. Overlay of materials showed that no new visible cracks appeared, old cracks are practically unchanged. The already long-standing emergency condition of the Vovnushki Tower Complex raises serious concerns, and it is necessary to urgently carry out anti-disaster works with fixing and strengthening of the towers and rock base.

The former shelter of the Society for Assistance to the Poor of St. Andrew's Cathedral parish on line 7 of Vasilyevsky Island, 42 is recognized as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.

The front two-storied stone building was built at the end of the XVIII century. In 1830s the third floor was added on. The south-western building was built in 1860s according to the project of architect G. Karpov, side buildings were built in 1890s according to the project of architect A. Soskov.

In the second half of the XIX century the building belonged to the representatives of the famous noble family - Struysky. One of the heirs was the poet Dmitry Struisky, who wrote under the pseudonym “Trilunny”.

Since 1891, according to the will of the last owner of the Struisky family - Alexandra Yurievna - the plot with all the buildings was owned by the St. Andrew's Charitable Society on Vasilievsky Island. In 1914, with the outbreak of the First World War, the society housed an infirmary in one of the buildings. In the 1920s the building housed a dormitory.

A large-scale restoration of the Petzold Brewery, a unique monument of industrial architecture of the 19th century, continues in Kazan.

The brewery, founded by German entrepreneur Ernest Petzold in 1905, was one of the largest enterprises of its time and played an important role in the development of the region. Today restorers are working on two key areas of the complex - the Glacier and the basement. They have already carried out priority anti-damage works - the old roof has been dismantled, emergency structures have been dismantled, and the historic brick walls have been reinforced.