Trial diamond drilling has begun on a section of the rock foundation on which the historic towers and crypts of the Vovnushki Tower Complex, which is in a state of disrepair, are located. We hope that, first and foremost, the “treatment” of the rocks will help to preserve this unique Ingush complex.

ACM Group continues its work to identify unregistered historical buildings in the mountainous region of Ingushetia and add them to the Unified Electronic Database of Monuments in Ingushetia, which is being created by the company with the support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation. Buildings that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites must also be entered into the Register of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia for their legal and actual protection.

The existing Register contains 22 cultural heritage sites, including towers and crypts. ACM Group specialists have identified 77 more historical monuments at Meller that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites, including unique foundations of towers and farm buildings, as well as stone steles.

ACM Group has submitted 77 applications to the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites in Ingushetia to include the identified sites in the Register of Newly Identified Cultural Heritage Sites in Ingushetia. We hope that within 90 working days, another 77 objects will legally become identified cultural heritage objects of the Russian Federation and take their rightful place among other unique monuments of the country. ACM Group is ready to provide all additional necessary assistance to legally protect the unique buildings of the Meller Tower Complex.

We would like to remind you that thanks to the support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation, a charitable project from ACM Group, and, of course, the initiative of many interested people, the unique stone crypt of the Meller complex, which preserved historical artifacts, was restored last year.

The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve has shown how restoration work is progressing at the Monplaisir Palace, which will be closed to visitors from 2023.

Today, the paintings on the ceilings and cornices, the gilded plaster moldings, the parquet flooring, and the brickwork of the walls are being restored, and the stucco decoration of the ceilings is being cleaned.

Built in the Dutch tradition, the palace was personally designed by Emperor Peter I, who made several sketches and approved the layout. Early Baroque masters Andreas Schlüter, Johann Braunstein, Jean-Baptiste Leblon, and Niccolò Micetti worked on the construction.

From December 4 to 7, the IV exhibition “PRO Restoration. Import Substitution in Restoration Materials and Technologies” will be held at Ivan Sytin's printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street in Moscow.

Some colleagues and customers are interested in how many projects ACM Group will present at the 8th International Golden Trezzini Competition this year.

We're letting you know — exactly 5.

An 18th-century stone pedestal was recently discovered in a canal near Love Island in Gatchina. Museum staff immediately recognized it—an archival photograph shows that it once held a statue of Ceres, the goddess of fertility, which was almost completely lost during the war years. Originally, the unique pedestal held a sculptural group called “Cupid and Psyche,” which can now be seen in the White Hall of the Gatchina Palace.

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Restoration work on the Serebryanye Riadny cultural heritage site on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg is set to begin shortly.

The contractor will replace the roof, restore the plasterwork, and re-tile the granite steps and plinth. Work will begin with the dismantling of the later glass structures on the first floor, which once covered the open gallery.

The construction of the Silver Rows was originally funded by merchants and designed by Giacomo Quarenghi in 1784-1786 , on the site of previously burned wooden stalls where silver was traded.

Today, in 1834, the Alexandrian Column, designed by architect Auguste Montferrand, was solemnly unveiled on Palace Square in St. Petersburg. The total height of the monument is 47.5 meters. The granite monolith was delivered from the Puterlak quarry near Vyborg and erected without the use of modern machinery. It is the largest single granite column in the world.

The Alexandrian Column is a monument erected by decree of Emperor Nicholas I in honor of the victory of his older brother Alexander I in the Patriotic War of 1812. The opening ceremony was attended by the emperor and the entire royal family, as well as the diplomatic corps, a hundred thousand Russian troops, and servicemen of the domestic army.

On September 30, the VI Rakhmanov Readings will be held at the Architect's House in St. Petersburg. The theme of the scientific and technical conference is “Architect-restorer and engineer - colleagues or rivals?”

The restoration of architectural monuments is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary art that encourages all participants in the process to expand the scope of their specialization and knowledge to the extent necessary for the monument. In the interests of the monument, the specialist must grow to the level of an architect, who combines many specialties. Vladimir Stepanovich Rakhmanov often said that when working with a monument, he felt like an architect of that time. Are we—architects, designers, and engineering communications specialists—ready to work together in a coordinated manner in the interests of the monument? This will be discussed at the Rakhmanov Readings.

Today, in 1825, the Mikhailovsky Palace, the residence of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, the youngest son of Emperor Paul I, was consecrated. Construction, designed by architect Karl Rossi, took place from 1819 to 1823, with finishing work continuing for another two years.

The palace was the cultural center of the capital—the music of Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein was played here, Pushkin and Tyutchev read their poems, and Aivazovsky and Turgenev visited. It was within these walls, thanks to Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, that the first St. Petersburg Conservatory was founded, with Anton Rubinstein opening music classes in the palace.

In 1895, the palace was given a new lease of life when the Russian Museum was founded here, whose collection of masterpieces, ranging from ancient icons to Repin and Bryullov, is known throughout the world.

Today, ACM Group began preliminary work in the Stavropol Krai on a cultural heritage site located in the city of Nevinnomyssk.

Founded in 1825 as the village of Nevinnomysskaya, it received city status in 1939. During the Great Patriotic War, the city became an evacuation center, housing military hospitals, training military personnel, and operating an airfield for bombers.

ACM Group continues its work to identify unregistered historical buildings in the mountainous region of Ingushetia and add them to the Unified Electronic Database of Monuments in Ingushetia, which is being created by the company with the support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation. Buildings that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites must also be entered into the Register of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia for their legal and actual protection.

The existing Register contains 14 cultural heritage sites, including towers and farm buildings. ACM Group specialists have identified 51 more historical monuments at Kazi that have the characteristics of cultural heritage sites, including unique tower foundations and a large number of steles.

ACM Group is currently sending 51 applications to the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites of Ingushetia to include the identified sites in the Register of newly identified cultural heritage sites of Ingushetia. We hope that within 90 working days, another 51 objects will legally become identified cultural heritage sites of the Russian Federation and take their rightful place among other unique monuments of the country. ACM Group is ready to provide all additional assistance necessary to legally protect the unique structures and steles of the Kazi Tower Complex.

Many colleagues are surprised by the number of previously unaccounted objects with cultural heritage features that the ACM Group team has identified during almost two years of continuous work in mountainous Ingushetia. Towers, crypts, steles, farm buildings, cyclopean structures, springs—all of these are priceless cultural and architectural treasures.

The company's work and new data are being monitored not only by people interested in history, but also by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and other agencies.

This unique program was launched and continues thanks to the full support of the SAFMAR and Vozrozhdenie charitable foundations.

In addition, seeing the real and impressive results of the work in Ingushetia, other subjects of the Russian Federation are already planning to launch similar programs. The monuments of Ingushetia are becoming one of the leaders not only in terms of the number of objects, but also in terms of the approach to their identification and study.

Many interested people from various regions of Russia are interested in ACM Group - how to make an object a monument? The application must contain:

- information about the location of the object,

- brief information about its historical, cultural, architectural, or memorial value,

- a photograph of the object.

No expert assessment is required!

Upon receiving the identification application, the Monument Protection Authority is obliged to immediately add the object to the list of “Objects with characteristics of cultural heritage objects” and then, within 90 working days from the date of registration of the application, organize work to establish the historical and cultural value of the object (clause 3 of Article 16.1 of Law 73-FZ) .

The result of this work is a decision to include the object in the List of Identified Cultural Heritage Objects (LICHO) or to refuse to grant it LICHO status.

If the object becomes a LICHO, the Monument Protection Authority is obliged to organize a state historical and cultural examination within one year. Based on its results, a decision is made on the inclusion of the LICHO in the Register of Cultural Heritage Objects (RCHO), i.e., on granting full protection status or refusing to grant it.

Please note that once an application for LICHO status has been submitted, the object is legally required to be taken under the protection of the Monument Protection Authority!

Do you know how many books on the history and architecture of the North Caucasus, which discuss villages, their inhabitants, and, of course, the tower complexes of Ingushetia, have been collected in the Unified Electronic Database of Monuments of Ingushetia, created by ACM Group with the full support of the SAFMAR and Vozrozhdenie Charitable Foundations?

More than 700!

We assure you that no other library in the country has such an extensive collection of literature on the North Caucasus.

ACM Group historians have carefully researched archives and libraries in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ingushetia, Chechnya, North Ossetia, Stavropol, Georgia, as well as the United States and Europe, in order to maximize the unique Unified Electronic Database of Monuments of Ingushetia.

In St. Petersburg, at the International Forum of United Cultures, a digital restoration project for the Triumphal Arch in Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was presented.

"The restoration project of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Palmyra, Syria, is one of the most ambitious restoration projects in the world. The Center for Rescue Archaeology has been implementing it since early 2022. They have built the world's most accurate digital model of the entire ancient city with a total area of 21 square kilometers. The arch restoration project has been approved by UNESCO," said Governor Alexander Beglov.

The triumphal arch was built during the reign of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus ( 193-211 ) and apparently glorifies his victories. It underwent restoration with reinforced concrete elements in the 1930s. In 2015, during the civil war in Syria, it was partially destroyed. The central span and one of the pylons collapsed.

Plans to renovate the historic building at 51 Bolshaya Morskaya Street in St. Petersburg have been called into question. Restoration work has not begun due to a criminal case and the building's status as a historical monument.

According to a historical and cultural assessment published in September, the project calls for preserving key architectural features. It is planned to leave the location and dimensions of the main building, the height of the roofs, and the structure of the inner courtyard unchanged. Particular attention is paid to preserving the external appearance and decorative elements of the interiors in order to emphasize the historical value of the object. At the end of last year, the Committee for State Control, Use, and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments issued a permit to carry out work to preserve the building. However, the mansion is still under arrest as part of a criminal case. This status does not allow work to begin. The reason for the criminal case was an appeal by city preservationists to the Investigative Committee to verify the legality of the partial dismantling of the monument. After the scandal erupted, the public succeeded in getting the previous order on protected items overturned in court. In November 2023, a new list of protected characteristics of the monument was approved.

Today, Moscow will host the opening of the International Symposium of the National Committee of ICOMOS, the main event for Russia's restoration community. This year's main theme is “Preservation and Adaptation of Cultural Heritage Sites in the Context of the Modern City.”

The restoration of the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye has been completed. The work took two and a half years—specialists cleaned and reinforced the brickwork and restored the white stone details and decorative elements. Special attention was paid to the tent—the masonry was cleaned of old plaster, treated with biocides, primed, and given a new coating and paint job.

In 1994, the church was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, along with the Kremlin, Red Square, and Novodevichy Convent.

The church is scheduled to reopen on the feast day of the Ascension of the Lord in May 2026. Until then, the wooden iconostasis will be returned to the upper chapel, and an exhibition on the history of the church will be prepared in the basement.

In St. Petersburg, 150 cultural heritage sites have been identified as being in poor condition.

On September 17, city parliament deputies passed the first reading of a bill that would allow St. Petersburg officials to make decisions about the preservation of cultural heritage sites. This includes identifying sites that are in poor condition. This assessment is necessary for a federal program under which investors can obtain loans for the restoration of monuments. The program has been allocated 51 billion rubles, and the city needs to be included in the distribution of these funds.