Restoration work continues on the Southern Shaft of the Vyborg Castle. Now specialists are restoring the wall, preserving the authenticity of one of Vyborg's symbols. For this purpose they use traditional lime mortars, which were used centuries ago. The Leningrad Region Administration informed that the top of the rampart will be covered with a clay castle.

On October 17, the State Institute of Art History on Kozitsky Lane, 5 in Moscow invites you to a discussion on the topic - "Houses of the XIX - early XX century in Russia. Urban Environment. Heritage. Problems. Prospects".

In the center of attention will be the historical revenue houses of St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities, which by the turn of the XIX-XX centuries defined the image and spatial structure of industrial cities of Russia. However, nowadays their elegant facades often hide gloomy courtyards-wells, stairwells and communal rooms, into which once luxurious apartments have turned. What to do with this beautiful but painfully neglected architectural heritage?

Restoration work started on the Garak Tower Complex in the mountainous Ingushetia. According to the agreed project of ACM Group, 1 combat and 5 residential towers, as well as 3 ancient ground crypts are to be restored.

The restoration of the facades of the Prechistenskaya Pharmacy, the oldest surviving pharmacy in Moscow, has begun. The eclectic building is associated with the Forbricher dynasty - famous Moscow pharmacists.

Specialists will tidy up the stucco decor, cornices, metal elements and attic. The work is planned to be completed by the end of the year.

The historical building on Prechistenka was built in the late XVIII century as a mansion for rent. And the “medicinal history” of this house began in 1809, when merchant Milyakov rented the second floor for a pharmacy. In the 30s of the XIX century, the pharmacy was known as Prechistenskaya, and in the middle of the century it was purchased together with the whole house by two brothers - pharmacist Karl Friedrich and Master of Pharmacy Heinrich Forbrichers, natives of the city of Derptu, now Tartu. In 1874, the brothers, using the services of architect Nikolai Mikhnev, reconstructed the building, adding a third floor and crowning it with an attic. The third floor was used for furnished apartments, the first floor was given to stores, and the basement was used for medical laboratories. In 1885 the architect Vasily Barkov became the owner of the house and kept the pharmacy on the second floor. The pharmacy worked during the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, and only in 1975 it was moved to the 1st floor, where it remains to this day.

The Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of St. Petersburg awarded the status of a regional monument to the building of the electric power station of the Electric Lighting Society of 1886 on the Obvodniy Canal.

The area around the future power station began to form in the second half of the 18th century after the Obvodniy Canal was laid. The site became famous in the late 19th century when Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov, who founded the company, built the first St. Petersburg power plant there. However, despite innovative developments, the enterprise soon proved unprofitable and was taken over by the famous German entrepreneur Carl Siemens. The new power station was built in record time from 1897 to 1898 and initially consisted of three main buildings. At the time of construction, the Electric Lighting Company was the largest in the capital and provided electricity to more than half of the city's homes and businesses.

This is news, considering that today ACM Group together with URBIS SPb and KB VIPS is developing a project for restoration and adaptation of the historical buildings of the power plant.

Today, in 1836, Emperor Nicholas I issued a decree "On the unbreakable buildings built in the times of Peter the Great". The document was the first step towards legislative protection of architectural monuments of the Russian Empire.

According to the Emperor's decree, in St. Petersburg and throughout Russia it was forbidden to break down historical buildings without the permission of the sovereign. In order to preserve the monuments of the Peter the Great period, it was prescribed that all petitions for the demolition of buildings should indicate the year of their construction.

Having received in his youth a good engineering education, Nicholas I showed considerable knowledge in the field of construction and construction techniques. Thus, the Emperor made successful proposals for the dome of the Trinity Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Later, already occupying the highest position in the state, he closely followed the order in urban planning, and no significant project was not approved without his signature. He issued a decree regulating the height of private buildings in the capital. The decree limited the height of any private building to the width of the street on which the building was constructed. The height of a private building could not exceed 11 fathoms, which corresponds to the height of the eaves of the Winter Palace - 23.47 meters. This created the famous St. Petersburg City Panorama, which existed until recently.

On July 29, the Russian Guild of Managers and Developers and the editorial staff of NSP. RU with the support of WELL apart-hotel invite to the discussion “Small Architectural Forms as Art”.

The purpose of the event is to discuss Small Architectural Forms in development: do they generate additional flow of people and additional income? What are the trends of small architectural forms on the market? What are developers guided by when placing non-standard Small Architectural Forms in their projects and on what principle do they choose them?

Hosted by the WALL apart-hotel in St. Petersburg at 1 Izmailovsky Boulevard.

June sketches of the Egikal Tower Complex in mountainous Ingushetia by architect-restorer Ksenia Lunkan of ACM Group.

US President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO because of the organization's “anti-American vector,” the White House said. White House deputy press secretary Anne Kelly told The New York Post that the organization supports “controversial, divisive cultural and social goals” that are “completely contrary to common sense” and the policies of the current US authorities.

This is a personal matter between Trump and the U.S., and the ACM Group is not against expanding the list of UNESCO sites, especially unique Russian cultural and architectural sites.

The Karelia pavilion opened at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy after restoration. The cultural heritage object is one of the four pavilions at VDNKh, where wood carvings were used and the only one decorated with wooden sculptures. In 2023, restoration of the building began - granite columns, the original color scheme of facades, carved front doors with northern motifs, plaster bas-reliefs and bronze chandeliers inside were restored.

Now the pavilion hosts an immersive multimedia exhibition “Living Masterpieces of Russian Fairy Tales” dedicated to book illustration by Russian artists of the last third of the 19th - early 20th century.

In Irkutsk, work is being carried out to restore a cultural heritage object - a mansion on Zhelyabova Street, 4. The work should be completed by the end of the year. During the restoration, it is planned to preserve at least 20% of the old logs and decorative elements of the historic building. Before the work started, the wooden house was completely dismantled and labeled. An excavation for new foundations was prepared on the site. The mansion was built at the end of the XIX century according to the project of Irkutsk architect Vladimir Rassushin on the funds of merchant Ivan Khaminov.

The old wine warehouses of the Kristall plant in Moscow are recognized as an object of cultural heritage as an example of industrial architecture of the XIX-XX centuries, built on the bank of the Yauza River in the Lefortovo district.

The complex of brick buildings of “Moscow Treasury Wine Warehouse N1” of red wine color), designed for the production and storage of alcoholic beverages, is located on the bend of the Yauza River on Samokatnaya Street. The earliest buildings date back to 1851-1876 . These buildings appeared long before the state monopoly on the production and sale of vodka was introduced in Russia. This happened in 1894 on the initiative of Sergei Witte, who headed the Ministry of Finance. In 1914, during the First World War, the restrictions became even tighter - a dry law was introduced. However, the wine warehouses continued to work, although they adjusted their profile. In part, they manufactured products for medical and technical needs and for export abroad, and part of the buildings were used to house the wounded. After the October Revolution the plant resumed its work in 1925. During the Great Patriotic War the hulls were completely reoriented to the bottling of Molotov cocktail and production of dry alcohol.

In Kaliningrad, restoration of an old German villa on Telmana Street, an object of cultural heritage of regional significance, has been completed. The restorers restored sections of the walls, replaced windows and doors, and returned the historical color to the facades.

The two-story villa with a hip roof was built in Koenigsberg on Augusta-Victoria Alley in the early twentieth century.

The Central State Archive of Art and Literature of St. Petersburg has handed over unique photographs of the Tsori Tower Complex in mountainous Ingushetia in 1938 from the expedition of architect R.L. Rotach to the historians of ACM Group.

The most important aspect of the valuable photographs are the structures of the historical stone wall, which protected the tower complex, and which have been lost to date.

The St. Petersburg State Committee for the Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Regional Significance recognized the Andrei Vasilyev Mansion on Bolshoi Prospect of Petrograd side between Kolpinskaya and Strelninskaya Streets as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.

The building was constructed in 1878-1879 according to the project of architect Vladimir Shalamov. In 1914 the mansion was remodeled for a “big cinematograph” according to the project of architect Vasily Shaub. In 1915, the building was opened as a miniature theater “Trocadero”, where movies and divertissements were shown. Since 1959, the building has been occupied by a children's music school.

Restorers started overhaul and restoration of the spire of the main building of Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory in Moscow. Today, specialists are cleaning metal structures and preparing for the production of new colored glass, while architects of ACM Group are promptly preparing a project for the spire restoration.

The MSU building is the tallest of all Stalinist high-rises. The length of the spire is 58 meters, which is approximately equal to a 16-storey house.

Restoration work on the main building of Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory in Moscow is in full swing. In St. Petersburg, ACM Group continues design work on the facades of the majestic high-rise.

A mansion on Bolshaya Polyanka Street became an object of cultural heritage.

The main house and an outbuilding of the 19th century mansion were included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites. The estate belonged to the princes Baryatinsky, in 1793 it was acquired together with the neighboring plot by the State Councillor Mikhail Bezsonov. Until 1812 there was a wooden main house with a portico flanked by two wings. The southern stone wing survived the fire of 1812 and survived to this day. In the early twentieth century there was a sanatorium where Sergey Yesenin underwent hydrotherapy, communicated with patients and staff and even organized poetry evenings.

Earlier this year, specialists from ACM Group inspected the mansion and today they are ready to continue research and design work.

Over the past weekend, ACM Group specialists conducted an author's supervision of the Furtoug, Eban, Garak, Tumgi, Keli and Doshkhakle tower complexes in mountainous Ingushetia. There were practically no remarks to the contractors, and restoration work is continuing.

Restoration work has officially begun in the Great Choral Synagogue at 2 Lermontovsky Avenue in St. Petersburg.

The contractor started installing scaffolding back in June. They plan to complete the work by the end of next year. During this time the dome will be restored, the roofing and rafter system will be restored, the granite and limestone plinth and granite porch, brickwork, stucco and columns of the entrance will be restored.

The last restoration of the synagogue took place at the end of the twentieth century with the participation of the ACM team.

The monument to Gagarin was included in the state register of cultural heritage objects.

The monument by sculptor Pavel Bondarenko, dedicated to Yuri Gagarin, was opened in Moscow on July 04, 1980 for the XXII Summer Olympic Games. It was made of titanium, which is used in the construction of spaceships. The place for the monument was not chosen by chance - it was along Leninsky Prospekt that Gagarin entered the city from Vnukovo airport to report on the results of the first space flight.