The first festival of architecture and theater “Levinson's Persona” will be held in St. Petersburg.

The event will be dedicated to the work of the famous Leningrad architect Evgeny Adolfovich Levinson. The program includes a promenade performance and an educational program by leading experts with lectures and excursions.

This year, the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of St. Petersburg will begin restoration of the courtyard facades of the Tolstoy House, located between Rubinstein Street and the Fontanka River Embankment.

The house of Major-General of the Reserve Count Mikhail Pavlovich Tolstoy was built according to the project of the outstanding architect Fyodor Lidval in 1910-1912 in the style of Northern Art Nouveau with elements of neoclassicism. In 1913, after the Count's death, the house was passed to his widow Olga Alexandrovna and became known as “General's Tolstoy's house”.

Opera on the balcony of the WAWELBERG Hotel has already become a St. Petersburg tradition. Residents and guests of the city specially come to listen to the concerts every week and are surprised by such an unusual format emphasizing the status of the city as a cultural capital.

WAWELBERG Hotel project by ACM Group.

On April 21, the International Conference “The Modern ‘Cult of Monuments’ - Political Tool or Intergenerational Heritage” will be held.

The participants of the conference - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Center for Salvage Archaeology of the Institute of History

material culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the National Committee of the International Council for the Preservation of Monuments and Sites of Russia, the State Hermitage Museum and the Union of Restorers of St. Petersburg, will discuss various aspects concerning the role of cultural heritage in the modern world.

This year, the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of St. Petersburg will start the restoration of the cultural heritage object of regional significance “Basin's House” on Ostrovsky Square, 5.

Architect Nikolai Basin built his own house in 1878 in the “Russian style”. The planned restoration will recreate the lost scaled cover of the dome and bay window, as well as restoring weathervanes, balcony railings and restoring the turrets on the parapets of the front facades.

This year, the Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of St. Petersburg will begin restoration of the facades of the courtyard buildings of the Pel (Gukasova) house at 46 Liteiny Prospekt, a cultural heritage site of regional significance.

The reconstruction of the building that previously existed on the site was carried out in 1865 by a new owner - architect Alexander Khristoforovich Pel.

In 1908, the next owner of the house - oil producer Pavel Gukasov - commissioned the architect Alexander Khrenov to reconstruct and increase the volume of the building, who created new courtyard buildings.

From May 18 to 25 the Russian Association of Restorers, together with the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Mongolia, the Ministry of Culture of Mongolia and the National Center of Religion and Cultural Heritage of Mongolia, will hold the I Mongolian-Russian Restoration Conference with visits to restoration objects of the distant country.

There are still historians who continue to develop the hypothesis that many peoples and even civilizations originated in the North Caucasus. It was the Caucasus that gave the most powerful development to Scandinavia, many countries of Europe and even the Maya tribes in South America. For further development of the hypothesis, let us provide respected historians with a photograph of two buildings with a pyramidal roof on Phu Quoc Island in North Vietnam.

Two objects of cultural heritage are being restored in Karelia. In Sortavala they will restore the building of the editorial office of the newspaper "Ladoga", which was almost destroyed by fire in 1998, as well as the building of the hospital "Vaaliyala" built in 1931 according to the project of architect A. Merne, which was a hospital for mentally retarded children.

As part of survey work on tower complexes in the Republic of Ingushetia, ACM Group records ALL objects of cultural heritage included in the Unified Register of Cultural Heritage Sites, as well as ALL objects that have signs of cultural heritage sites. The company's specialists fix ALL, even ruined buildings and structures, as well as freestanding parts of walls. Fixation implies full fixation of the object from drones, laser scanning inside and outside of each object, photo fixation from different angles and description of the main parameters and characteristics of the buildings.

Any unauthorized destruction of Ingushetia's unique historical and cultural monuments will be easy to identify using the results of the fixation work.

In the Chuvash village of Krasnye Chetai, on Sovetskaya Street, 59, restoration of the cultural heritage site “Two-story wooden school building” has begun. In addition to repairing the rafters and replacing the roof, special attention will be paid to the restoration of platbands, ceiling rosettes and round stoves.

ACM Group specialists manually cleared the unique objects of cultural heritage of the Giagi G1alash tower complex in mountainous Ingushetia from overgrown shrubs and small trees that continue to destroy the masonry of the surviving walls and watchtower.

The Russian Museum showed the condition of the facades and roofs and began looking for a contractor to conduct comprehensive scientific research and develop project documentation for the restoration of the roof and main facade of the world-famous museum.

The main building of the Russian Museum was built in 1825 according to the project of architect Carl Rossi for Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich Romanov. At the end of the XIX century it was partially rebuilt according to the project of architect V. Svinyin.

Zlatoust Holy Trinity Church on Bolshaya Zakamennaya Street is being prepared for restoration. The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was built between 1909 and 1916 in eclectic style. During the Soviet era, the church was used as a club, and later as barracks for Central Asian labor fighters.

Bookshop “Academy” launches a publishing program, the first book of which will be a local history work "From the life of St. Petersburg at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Notes of eyewitnesses". In this series will be published texts that tell how St. Petersburg and its inhabitants used to be. The books of the series are guides to everyday life, with which you can walk the streets of St. Petersburg and look at the city of today with different eyes.

"ACM Group will be involved in the restoration project of the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University, the leading center of journalism education in Russia. Founded in 1952, the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University is today a leader of scientific research in the field of media and educational and methodological activities. It occupies the former Auditorium Building on Mokhovaya Street in Moscow, rebuilt in the 1830s to the design of architect E. Tyurin from the Pashkov estate.

UNESCO experts will come to St. Petersburg to deal with the projects of new skyscrapers in Lakhta. According to Western experts, the two new towers may harm the historical image of the Northern Capital and its skyline.

From June 11-14, the Tom Sawyer Fest team will host a restoration campus in Omsk, where participants will learn the theory and practice of historical three-dimensional wooden carving. During these days the participants of the campus will learn the peculiarities of the wooden architecture of Omsk, methods of making volumetric carvings, as well as the history of lost and preserved buildings.

The motto is “The plastic world cannot win until we forget the skills of working with wood”.

Today Russian and Belarusian archaeologists and historians gathered in Pskov for the 70th scientific conference “Archaeology and History of Pskov and Pskov Land”.

The gold of Tver and Pskov Krom, research of the Petrovsky Posad and many other aspects of archaeology will be discussed at the conference.

A group of St. Petersburg residents, mainly consisting of veterans of the Great Patriotic War and residents of the Siege of Leningrad, criticized the new project of restoration and adaptation of the Stables Department building.

The authors are to present the concept of the historical building's development tomorrow at a meeting of the Cultural Heritage Council. The concept suggests using the eastern wing of the historic building for family audiences, while the western wing will house a food court for single visitors, couples and large companies.

The complex of buildings of the Stables Department was built in 1720-1723 according to the project of architect N. Gerbel under the decree of Emperor Peter the Great. In 1817-1823 it was reconstructed according to the project of architect V. Stasov. It was here, in the Church of the Savior before the funeral of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, and on February 22, 1857 in the church was held a memorial service in memory of Mikhail Glinka.

Today, one of the oldest monuments in Russia - the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Antony Monastery in Veliky Novgorod - will be opened after two years of restoration. According to legend, the monastery on the bank of the Volkhov River was founded in 1106 on the place where a stone with the monk Anthony, who had sailed from Rome, landed. In the XII century, the first Russian mathematician Kirik, the creator of the “Doctrine of Numbers”, worked within the walls of the monastery.