“ACM Group” completes design and estimate works on the restoration of the cultural heritage object ”Buildings of the Electric Lighting Society. 1886” on the Obvodnoy Canal Embankment in St. Petersburg. The joint project with KB “VIPS” and “URBIS” envisages restoration of historical brick buildings and their adaptation for modern use.

The buildings of the electric station started to be built in 1897 and were inaugurated on November 16, 1898. All equipment was supplied by Siemens & Galske. By 1916 the station produced more than half of the electricity consumed by the city.

The Mir Diamond Quarry in the town of Mirny in Yakutia is the largest diamond quarry in Russia, where diamonds have been mined for several decades. In 1980, it was here that the largest stone in the history of Soviet diamond mining was found. As a result, the depth of the quarry is 525 meters and its diameter is more than a kilometer. It was here, in Mirny, that ACM Group was engaged three years ago in the project of reconstruction of the Azimut Hotel for Alrosa.

The controversy over the construction of the Smolny Cathedral bell tower has resumed again. The other day at a meeting of the World Club of Petersburgers, Mr. Uralov, an honored artist of the Russian Federation, proposed to build the bell tower after all, but as an exhibit of the Museum of Architecture. He presented two options for placing the unbuilt Smolny belfry - on a drop-shaped section of the Smolny Embankment (Orlovski Tunnel junction) or among Gazprom's skyscrapers on Lakhta.

Opinions of the club members were divided. The public discussion around the bell tower will continue.

Mr. Uralov continue to be engaged in creation of panels and painting.

Реконструкция филармонии в Петрозаводске остается под вопросом - необходимо значительно увеличивать сметы. Проект реконструкции филармонии - от "АСМ Групп".

On March 13, an exclusive meeting of designers and architects in St. Petersburg will take place - “The Art of Transparency - History, Present and Future of Glass in Architecture and Design”. A look into the past, unique projects, new technologies and ideas from industry leaders.

The organizing committee of Golden Trezzini, Glasscon company and Bulthaup design gallery are invited to Konyushennaya, 2.

ACM Group historians began work at the “National Historical Archive of Georgia” to identify historical data on the culture and tower complexes of Ingushetia.

In the next few days the architects of “ACM Group” will return to Perm to continue the study of the unique iconostasis of the main cathedral of the city.

The grandiose model, which has been created for several years with the participation of architects “ACM”, won the vote of the national tourist award “Russian Traveler Awards” of the Russin Traveler edition.

On March 25, the “Center for Tourism and Creative Industries” on Georgievskaya Street in Pskov will host the opening of an unexpected but worthy exhibition “Women in Restoration” dedicated to the fair sex who have dedicated their lives to the preservation of cultural heritage. Archival materials will be presented both from various institutions and private collections.

Today architects of ACM Group will continue research work on a unique iconostasis at the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, a cultural heritage site of federal significance.

Briefly - in 1560 the Stroganovs founded a monastery in the town of Pyskor. In 1781 the first governor of Perm decided to transfer the monastery to Perm. The dismantled monastery was floated down the Kama River and from 1798 to 1820 it was reconstructed in the picturesque place of Perm near the Kama.

Tomorrow, March 21, Wawelberg Hall will host a lecture “City of Women: Love, Business, Struggle and Love Again” by Lev Lurie. From revolutionaries to empresses, from tycoons to institutes, from ballerinas to scientists - it will be told in the interiors of one of the best hotels in St. Petersburg - WAWELBERG, realized under the project of ACM Group.

On Monday, the final editorial board of the Architectural Yearbook published by the Association of Architectural Workshops of St. Petersburg took place.

The layout of the publication was finalized, and the final list of participants and projects to be included in the XXIII issue was confirmed.

This year's edition will include more than 850 illustrations and cover a wide range of topics.

Among the emphases of the issue:

- "Reconstruction and Restoration" - in response to the growing interest in the subject.

- "Landscape Architecture and Small Forms."

- Publication of one of the city's major competitions.

The yearbook is scheduled for release in June.

St. Petersburg architects and creators of the project “Klima Romantisma” published a book “Circles of Caprom” about architecture of the 1990s and 2000s.

“This is a book about architecture that did not wish to adjust to society and chose to be happy” - said the authors.

The Historical Museum has opened a splendid exhibition dedicated to the works of 19th century Skopino craftsmen.

More than 80 works are presented in the Chairman's Cabinet in the Main Building of the Historical Museum. Unique figural vessels, candlesticks, sculptures and tiles inspired by folk folklore are collected in three main sections of the exhibition.

The ceramicists of Skopin drew their inspiration from folk tales and transferred their favorite images into plastic forms of ceramics, where mythical characters neighbor with animals and people.

The center of artistic ceramics emerged in Skopin, Ryazan province, in the 1860s and existed until 1917.

The date of opening after restoration of the Kroshitsky Museum in Sevastopol remains uncertain. The date of opening of the Kroshitsky Museum in Sevastopol remains uncertain. The St. Petersburg restoration company Guar has been unable to complete the work on this Crimean project, as well as to pay its contractors. "ACM Group was engaged in the project of restoration of the facades of the historic building.

On April 03 at the Foundation “In Memory of the Names of the Victims of the Blockade” on Konnaya Street, 24, in St. Petersburg, will be held a lecture by architectural historian Victor Korentsvit “Unknown architect of early St. Petersburg Francesco Fontana”.

The fate of this Italian in Russia is surprising. When and from where he came to St. Petersburg is exactly unknown, disappeared also mysteriously. Dates of life, where he was born and where he died - also not known. There are no portraits. Was there a family? He knew Russian. Built palaces for Peter, Catherine, Menshikov, Kikin and other first persons of the state. But his buildings - in doubt, attributed to others or listed under the category of “architect is not established”. Even with the name there were misunderstandings. Traces in Europe were lost. He was not honored to be among those chosen for the memorial plaque “Architecture of St. Petersburg”, but left an invaluable architectural legacy in the capitals of Russia.

About this amazing and mysterious fate and will tell the famous architectural historian Victor Korentsvit, once participated in the projects where the architects worked “ACM Group”.

Already today, the European University of St. Petersburg is opening an exhibition of works by architect Sergey Mishin. Connoisseurs of graphics, colleagues in the professional sphere and just lovers of architecture and art will see sheets from the series “Towers” and ‘Palimpsests’, pages from search notebooks, materials for navigation projects for Yelagin Island, the “architect's office” and his projects. All of this is summarized in the “Project Project”, showing the movement of thought and hand from the first sketch to the building.

Sergey is a longtime friend of ACM Group since “Hermitage times” and a couple of his works decorate the company's office. “ACM” cordially congratulates his colleague on the opening of the exhibition, timed also to the 70th anniversary of the architect.

On April 06 in the grand halls of the Myasnikov mansion, restored under the project “ACM” will be held a chamber screening of the film-musical “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Bryan Singer with Rami Malek in the title role. The film is a kind of celebration of the band Queen, their music and their outstanding vocalist Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and overcame conventions to become one of the most beloved artists around the world.

ACM Group specialists conducted a preliminary study of the Tarsh Tower Complex in mountainous Ingushetia. The combat and dwelling towers, as well as the crypts, require complex restoration as soon as possible. It is possible that Tarsh will be one of the company's next projects.

Historical photos of Nevsky Prospekt depicting the Vavelberg House before the October Revolution.

Restoration and adaptation of the building for the WAWELBERG Hotel by ACM Group.