The restoration of the Lower Grids Tower of the Pskovo-Pechersk Monastery under the project of ACM Group is reaching its final stage.

Built during the Livonian War in 1558-1565 , during the time of hegumen Cornelius, by order of Ivan the Terrible, the tower is a combat, culvert and gate tower. It has three tiers with loopholes. After the fire in 1688 the tower lost its military value and continued to deteriorate.

The architectural monument was restored to its historical appearance. Today the restoration of the vault of the passage arch and two gates is being completed.

The second season of archaeological excavations has begun at the Pui Tower Complex in mountainous Ingushetia, which is being restored under an ACM Group project.

Last year, the Heritage team made several unique finds at the complex, including group burials, a ritual burial of a foal, an Islamic burial of a child, and some 500 historical artifacts.

The selection of participants for the summer restoration school "Heritage Craftsmen", which will be held June 16-29 in the museum-reserve "Divnogorie", has begun.

Directions:

- theory and practice of field conservation

- archaeological monitoring

- archaeological emergency conservation

Today was held the acceptance of restoration works on the object of cultural heritage of federal significance “Tower of the Holy Gates”, which is the main entrance to the Pskovo-Pechersk Monastery.

The specialists of ACM Group told the distinguished commission about the findings made during the inspection of the tower and design solutions, and the commission approved the completed works and accepted the object.

An important stage of the restoration of Catherine's Palace has been completed in Tsarskoye Selo. After five years of painstaking work, the private rooms of Catherine II, which were practically destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, were opened. They were recreated according to historical descriptions and photographs. Now there are many restoration techniques on display here - more than ten types of gilding, wood carving, majolica, cobalt glass, engravings and paintings.

The Vinogradovo estate, which also includes the houses of Hermann, Banza and the cellar, is being restored in Moscow.

The history of the Vinogradovo estate in the Severny district goes back almost 400 years. At different times the ancestors of Alexander Pushkin, princes Vyazemsky, counts Benkendorf, merchants Buchumov and many others lived here. Famous writers and poets - Ivan Krylov, Gavriil Derzhavin, Nikolai Karamzin - were frequent guests of the estate.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the eastern dwelling house of Banza and the western dwelling house of Hermann were built on the territory of the estate according to the project of architect I. Rylsky.

From May 17 to September 21, the Vyborg Castle will present a large-scale collection of Falconier bricks and ancient glass architectural elements.

The exhibition “Light Through Time: Architectural Glass in Falconier's Orbit” will present floor prisms and portholes, Luxfer window prisms, Kappler glass, glass tiles, various handles with glass rollers, Soviet glass blocks and many other glass items. A special place in the exposition will be occupied by authentic catalogs and price lists of the early twentieth century, confirming the authenticity of the collection.

The project of restoration and recreation of the Nazranovskaya Fortress, a cultural heritage site of federal significance, prepared by ACM Group with the support of the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation, will be presented in a month at the VIII All-Russian Festival “Architectural Heritage. 2025” in Ryazan.

Last week, the official acceptance of restoration works at the cultural heritage site of federal significance “Upper Grids Tower” on the territory of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery took place. The esteemed commission accepted the project without remarks.

A few years ago, as part of research work, the specialists of ACM Group discovered unique plaster drawings made by Streltsy guards of the Petrine period who guarded the tower.

“ACM Group” starts the selection of projects for the VIII International Award ”Golden Trezzini. 2025”.

The XXX International Exhibition-Forum “ARCH MOSCOW” starts next week. The theme is the SOURCE. Summing up the results of a long journey, the organizers will talk to urban planners, architects and developers about what they consider the most important in their profession, what goals they set and what tasks they solve to make cities more comfortable, smarter and safer.

The Ministry for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture of the Penza Region issued a permit to carry out restoration work on the Church of Michael the Archangel in the village of Lermontovo.

The church is located in the estate of the poet's grandmother and is part of the site of cultural heritage of federal significance “The grave of Mikhail Lermontov 1814-1841 ”.

The church was built at the expense of E.A. Arsenieva from 1826 to 1840. The architect is unknown.

The monument is an interesting example of Russian provincial architecture of the mid-19th century in the Empire style.

The main house of the Guseva Polosa estate near Moscow is recognized as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.

The manor house is located on the area, which until the 1870s was called Guseva Polosa. The construction of the site with the first wooden houses began in 1885 by the merchant A.G.Vasilieva. In 1913 the estate was purchased by a civil engineer A.I.Shumilin, one of the co-owners of the “Engineering Business” office. Having dismantled the old buildings, by 1914 he built a new house in neoclassical style. The author was the owner himself, who had a permit to carry out such works. The two-story wooden building on stone foundations was decorated with porticoes, columns, triangular pediment, and richly decorated with stucco and medallions. Engineeringly, the house was equipped with the most advanced systems. After 1917 the nationalized manor house was used as a regular dwelling, after 1926 - as an orphanage. In the 1960s, the former manor house became a recreation center “Bakovka” of the Ministry of Aviation Industry. Since 2010, the territory of the estate became part of the Skolkovo innovation complex.

The historic Vorobyov House on 31 Ostrovskogo Street in Kostroma became a cultural heritage site. Built at the very beginning of the XIX century on the funds of Colonel Skripitsyn, the house is remarkable for its facade decoration, typical for provincial architecture of that period.

At different times the building changed its owners - in 1838 it was purchased by Senator Borshchev, after which the house was transferred to the Department of Estates. In the second half of the XIX century, after the abolition of serfdom, the building housed the Yaroslavl-Kostroma Department of Agriculture and State Property. In the Soviet period, the Kostroma TB Dispensary worked here.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to revise regulations on restoration of cultural heritage objects by the end of 2025 in order to reduce the time for investors. According to the president, many objects are dying because business cannot invest money due to restrictions. "Some people think that business should not be allowed. What, then, is it necessary for the objects to be destroyed?" - he emphasized.

Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that by May 15 a roadmap for revising restoration standards should be ready, and by the end of 2026 the work itself should be completed. According to her, 13975 monuments are now in unsatisfactory condition. In response, the president gave a task to speed up the process of reducing bureaucracy. "Let's work out exactly by the end of the year on the norms. What is impossible now, let's do it in 2026".

Restoration work continues under the project of ACM Group at the Lazarevskaya Church, a cultural heritage site of federal significance on the territory of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery.

In Kazan, the restoration of a cultural heritage site of regional significance - the house where Leo Tolstoy lived in 1845-1846 - has begun. The three-storey historical building on Bolshaya Krasnaya Street, where the Institute of Education Development of Tatarstan is now located, has lost many historical elements.

During the restoration work, specialists will reinforce the foundations and walls, repair the roof, and recreate wooden window fills with historic glazing. The forthcoming restoration will not only preserve the building, but also return the house to its appearance close to the time when young Leo Tolstoy lived there.

Today is the birthday of Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov (May 15, 1753 - January 3, 1804) - a talented Russian architect, follower of Palladianism, one of the brightest and most versatile representatives of the Russian Enlightenment.

Nikolai Alexandrovich - one of the erudite and witty people of his time. He harmoniously combined talents of a graphic artist, engraver, historian, botanist and horticulturist, poet, playwright, translator, musician.

He also studied archaeology, chemistry, geology, mechanics, collected folk songs, created a verse translation of Anacreontic songs. All sciences he studied independently, by books. He also independently mastered drawing, painting, engraving and architecture.

N.A.Lvov left a vast creative heritage, becoming the author of many iconic objects of Russian classical architecture in St. Petersburg and its environs, in Moscow, in his homeland - in Torzhok, and in many other cities.

Priory Castle, Holy Trinity Church “Kulich and Easter”, Derzhavin Estate, Church of St. Elijah the Prophet on Porokhovy, Post Office building - this is only a very small list of Nikolai Alexandrovich Lvov's creations.

“ACM Group also had a chance to touch the architect's legacy when developing the restoration project of the Priory Park in Gatchina.

The construction of a cottage village of ten individual houses under the project of ACM Group in Syargi village, Leningrad region, has started.

E.F. Lopatina's mansion on Maliy Karetny Lane, 11, in Moscow is included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites.

The two-storey dwelling house with a basement and an attic was erected in 1889 at the expense of a peasant woman Ekaterina Lopatina according to the project of architect Ya.Makhonina. In 1912 the plot with the house was purchased by the merchant of the first guild, hereditary honorary citizen Yakov Alshvang, who arranged a part of the territory for the production area of the sewing factory. After 1917, the Profintern experimental-technical sewing factory was located here.

Investors were offered to participate in the restoration of more than a thousand cultural heritage objects on the digital platform heritage.dom.rf.

The total area of monument buildings is more than 1 million square meters.

The digital platform was developed by the state-owned company Dom RF with the support of the Ministry of Culture to attract investors to the preservation of cultural heritage in poor condition. The platform provides information on objects in federal, regional and municipal ownership. The objects must be included in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Objects, be in unsatisfactory condition and meet a number of other requirements. The RF House emphasized - “We understand that one of the key tools to increase the interest and motivation of investors to work with the OKN today remains a preferential lending rate. Already five credit organizations are ready to give credits for work with monuments”.

To date, in the catalog of OKN on the platform collected 1009 objects from 72 regions. The leader in number is the Perm Territory - 55 objects. It is followed by the Yaroslavl region - 46, Novgorod region - 46, Vologda and Kostroma - 45 each.

It's time for RF House to ask “ACM Group” to provide information on another 1000 objects...