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.

Architects from ACM Group, initiated by the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation, are embarking on a project to restore one of the most famous tower complexes in mountainous Ingushetia, Khamkhi. The project will include restoration of combat and semi-combat towers, residential towers and crypts.

The restoration of the cultural heritage object “House of Soviets”, built in 1973 and included in the register of cultural heritage objects in 2000, begins in Perm.

If THESE objects are included in the register of historical and cultural monuments, then probably ANY buildings older than 40 years can be included there.

On April 24, in the Oak Hall of the Rumyantsev Mansion there will be a lecture “Petrograd in 1917-1924 ”, where many projects of the post-Rovoluchny plan of the city's development will be told. Some of the unrealized architectural projects of that time have become legendary.

For example, the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine” wrote with great sympathy about one of the architectural designs of the Bolsheviks - “Tatlin's Tower” as a monument dedicated to the III International. It was to be built in Petrograd, and a seven-meter model stood in the House of Soviets in Moscow. Mayakovsky called the future gigantic structure of glass and steel 400 meters high, similar to the Tower of Babel, “The first monument without a beard”, and the Commissar of Public Education Lunacharsky called it “a monster”. The model has not survived, but there are models in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Yesterday, Federico Arnaldi, host of the popular TV program “Let's Go, Let's Eat”, visited the Nizhny Puy tower complex in the mountainous region of Ingushetia, which is under restoration by ACM Group. The team of restorers and stonemasons from Naslediye warmly welcomed the famous guest and taught him how to work with natural stone.

The multi-year restoration of the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory is nearing completion. The Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory on Theater Square in St. Petersburg is nearing completion.

Permission to put the facility into operation is expected to be obtained in the second quarter of this year, after which the Conservatory will host its first concert after restoration.

St. Petersburg Conservatory is the first conservatory in Russia, founded by the Highest Decree of October 17, 1861 as a school on the basis of the Music Classes of the Russian Musical Society, on the initiative of pianist and conductor Anton Rubinstein. The Conservatory was officially opened on September 8, 1862.

On July 10-11, Pskov will host the V Interregional Forum "World Heritage Sites: Achievements and Experience of the Regions".

The Forum will be held under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The ACM Group team, supported by the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation, is starting a study and restoration project of the Tarsh Tower Complex in mountainous Ingushetia. The restoration of combat and dwelling towers, as well as crypts, is planned.

April 28 marks the 9th anniversary of the White Iris Charitable Foundation, which helps to restore churches in various regions of Russia. On this day the St. Philaret Institute in Moscow will host a lecture “The Fate of Rural Temples Through the Ages”.

“ACM Group was invited to participate in the restoration of the cultural heritage object ”Church of St. Martyr Tatiana", which is a house Orthodox church at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Lomonosov Moscow State University. The temple, built in 1833-1837 , designed by Arch. E. Tyurin has a main throne, consecrated in honor of the Holy Martyr Tatiana of Rome, the lower church in honor of St. Philaret of Moscow and an attached throne in honor of the Cathedral of the Three Saints.

In Vyborg, restoration of the Friedrichsgamsky and Ravelin gates of the Annin fortifications continues. The work is planned to be completed this fall.

Anninskie Fortifications is a bastion fortress, a unique monument of Russian defense architecture, located on Linnasaari Island. The construction of the fortifications began in 1731 according to the project of Major General de Coulon. After his death in 1735, the construction was completed by Christopher Minich. The fortifications are shaped like a crown-arc, which is where the name Annenkron and Kron-Sankt-Anna came from.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Vladimir region made a submission to the governor about “insufficient efficiency” in the work of the Inspectorate for State Protection of Cultural Heritage.

The prosecutor's inspection revealed numerous violations at the buildings of the Gostiny Dvor, the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve and the Vladimir State University. The supervisory authority explained that in the Vladimir region only 1,451 objects out of 2,087 have been issued protection obligations, and the boundaries of the territories of half of the objects of cultural heritage are not established or not included in the Unified State Register.

The Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography is preparing to carry out local restoration of the Kunstkamera building on Universitetskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg. The building of the “cabinet of rarities” was laid in 1718 according to the project of architect G.Mattarnovi. The construction was carried out until 1727 under the supervision of architects N. Gerbel, G. Kiaveri and M. Zemtsov.

Full-scale restoration work on the facades of the Moscow State University building on Vorobyovy Gory is beginning. Some planes of the facades have already been dressed in scaffolding and nets. The ACM Group team is expected to start work in the next few days.

A planetarium is planned to be opened in the Academy of Sciences on Universitetskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg. It will be created in one of the towers of the building designed by Giacomo Quarenghi in 1783. Also in the courtyard should appear a museum and a summer musical theater. The building of the Academy of Sciences will be restored by 2030.

Architects from ACM Group visited the Faculty of Journalism of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on Mokhovaya Street to familiarize themselves with the history, interiors and problems of the historic building of the former Auditorium Building, rebuilt in the 1830s to the design of architect E. Tyurin from the Pashkov estate. The historical interiors have been preserved quite little, but the building has many structural and engineering problems.

St. Petersburg continues to implement the Nevsky Prospekt program aimed at preserving the historical appearance and renovation of the city's main avenue. As part of the program in 2025 it is planned to repair roofs and facades on 13 apartment buildings.

"Repair and restoration work on Nevsky Prospekt is one of our key tasks. Nevsky is the face of the Northern Capital, we preserve its unique atmosphere for the next generations" - emphasized the Governor of St. Petersburg.

The Nevsky Prospekt program started last year, when 40 facades were restored.