The main hall of the “Church of St. Martyr Tatiana” at Moscow State University, on Mokhovaya Street. The restoration project will start in the coming days.

In Kazan, the restoration of the Boratynskiy Estate, a cultural heritage site built in 1836, where several generations of the famous poet's family lived and where the Boratynskiy Museum is currently located. The restorers will dismantle the facade cladding to examine the condition of the log walls, strengthen the foundations and structures of the building and determine the historical colors.

From April 16 to 18, 2025 in Chita, the capital of Transbaikalia, the Interregional Forum on the preservation of cultural heritage objects “Place of Memory and Strength” was held.

The Forum brought together leading specialists in the field of historical and cultural heritage: restorers, architects, archaeologists and public figures from different parts of our country.

“Agency for Management and Use of Historical and Cultural Monuments” transfers the famous Faberge Dacha in Pargolovo near St. Petersburg to auction. The architectural monument is of significant cultural and historical value.

Faberge Dacha ( 1878-1882 ) includes six buildings with a total area of about 3 thousand meters, four of which have the status of objects of cultural heritage of federal significance.

The transfer of these objects to auction will allow to attract investors' funds for the restoration of architectural monuments and their adaptation to modern use.

A boutique hotel in the mansion of Evdokia Ermolaeva, built in the 19th century, opened in Nizhny Novgorod after restoration. The work was carried out for a year and a half, preserving the planning solutions and all architectural elements. The new boutique hotel offers nine rooms, each of which is decorated in the style of the 19th century.

Restoration works continue under the project of ACM Group at the cultural heritage site of federal significance "Tower of Lower Grids" on the territory of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery in Pechory.

ACM Group specialists identified, marked and scanned all historical stone structures at the Giagi G1alash, Doshkhakle and Furtog tower complexes in mountainous Ingushetia. The data obtained on combat and residential towers, as well as crypts, will be processed and included in a unified information database of cultural heritage sites being created with the support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation.

In the village of Porechye-Rybnoye, Yaroslavl Region, a bronze fragment of the bell of the Nikita bell tower, which was broken more than a hundred years ago, has been found.

The five-tiered bell tower of the Church of St. Nikita the Martyr is the tallest bell tower in Russia outside the city. Its height is 94 meters.

The founding of St. Petersburg, reforms, military victories - this is what the name of Emperor Peter the Great is associated with.

On May 17 at the lecture by Dom Lurie you will be helped to look beyond the pathos walls of palaces, official ceremonies and biographies and get acquainted with the daily life of the emperor.

The lecture will take place in the hotel “WAWELBERG”, realized under the project of “ACM Group”.

The RF House together with the Ministry of Finance are working on a mechanism to attract investors when working with cultural heritage objects for their restoration and adaptation for modern use. For lending to cultural heritage objects, which are not included in the pilot ones, today the rate reaches 17%, becoming a barrier for investors. It is planned that the rate will not exceed 10%.

Today, after extensive restoration, the sculptures of lions returned to their pedestals on the staircase of the Yelagin Palace in St. Petersburg.

Cast in 1822, the lions, designed by architect Carl Rossi, are probably the city's first pair of sculpted lions.

Omsk deputies want to demolish cultural heritage objects that are in an emergency condition.

At a meeting of the Committee on Economic Development, a proposal was supported that would allow regional and city authorities to deprive emergency houses of the status of a cultural heritage object on their own. If the initiative is supported by the Legislative Assembly of Omsk, the corresponding document will be submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation for consideration.

On May 31, the Voronezh House of Architects will host the forum “Architecture VRN 2025”. The general theme of the forum is “City Center” with topical issues and various aspects of formation, development and renewal of centers of modern cities.

The weather vane of the “Lower Grid Towers” of the Pskovo-Pechersk Monastery was restored and covered with gold leaf. The forepost is made in the technique of hot forging with replenishment of losses and new anticorrosion coating. White gold, “red” chervlen gold and lemon-colored gold were used to restore the historical finish of the forepost.

The restoration of the tower and the forepost was carried out by ACM Group.

The exhibition “Brick Russian Empire” runs in Pothern and the casemate of the Gosudarev Bastion in the Peter and Paul Fortress until June 17.

Bricks from more than forty provinces of the Russian Empire, molds for their manufacture, stamps matrices and documents of brick factories - extensive and informative.

In Konstantinovka, one of the architectural monuments of the Rostov region, the building of the Cossack Military Craft School, which belonged to the Konstantinovka Technological College, was almost completely dismantled.

The Cossack school was built in 1895 as an institution for training craftsmen for Cossack military units. Workshops for sewing uniforms and equipment were organized in the school. The local authorities did not care to give the building the status of a cultural heritage object, which allowed the dismantling of the unique brick three-storey building with a decorated facade and interior elements in spring.

Betancourt Bridge has been open in St. Petersburg for several years. Who was this man?

Augustin Jose Pedro del Carmen Domingo de Candelaria de Betancourt y Molina - Spanish, then Russian statesman, scientist, lieutenant general of the Russian service, organizer of construction and transport in the Russian Empire. He was born on February 1, 1758 in Spain, in the city of Puerto de la Cruz on the island of Tenerife, in a family founded by the French. In Russian, Augustin Augustinovich Betancourt.

June 20 in St. Petersburg House of Architects will be held V Betancourt readings on the theme "Interaction of foundations and structures. Norms and practice of design", touching upon joint calculations of foundations and structures, uniting specialists in the field of geotechnics and ground structures.

The Union of Architects and the Institute “Georeconstruction” invite.

This is how the “Holy Gate Tower” in the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery looks now, after restoration under the project of “ACM Group”.

An unexpected result was obtained during the cleaning of the entrance group at the cultural heritage of regional significance at 9 Leningradsky Prospekt in Vyborg. Under numerous layers of Soviet-era paintwork, the author's ornaments that once adorned the front of the five-storey profitable house, built by order of Alfa JSC in 1907 according to the project of architect A. Shulman in the Northern Art Nouveau style, were revealed.

In Krasny Yar village, Samara region, restoration work was completed on the cultural heritage site of regional significance “House of merchant Zakharov”. In the course of works, the facade of the building was cleaned from late paint and cement, and the historical brickwork was restored to make up for losses.

In the city of Buzuluk, Orenburg region, in the building of a former water intake station dating back to 1904, the restaurant “Berega” opened - an example of careful work with a cultural heritage object.

In addition to the restoration of the building itself, the cobblestone sidewalk was recreated, as well as window and door fills. A local context was added to the restaurant's interiors - one of the walls is decorated with copies of artifacts from the Buzuluk Water Supply Society. The new additions to the building were made without any attempt to make it “historic” - an honest loft with a folded roof and open structures.