In 2026, St. Petersburg will receive 20 billion rubles from the city and federal budgets for the restoration of architectural monuments.
Most of the funds will be allocated to the restoration of facades and large federal objects. Investors will add another 11 billion. This is a substantial amount, which will naturally be utilized. It is strange that there are still cities and regions where officials do not care about architectural monuments as the common property of the people and make no effort to draw up the necessary and correct long-term programs, as well as to attract funding from the budget. A recent trip to one of the old cities in central Russia only confirmed this...