Recently, there has been much debate about what is better and more appropriate for cultural heritage sites—restoration or conservation? Or perhaps—leave them alone!!!—let them remain as they are.... There is also a belief that restored objects lose their status and therefore cannot be included in certain registers of cultural heritage objects, including the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Of course, either option is possible - both restoration and conservation are legitimate approaches to monuments. However, let us remember that it was precisely after the large-scale restoration and reconstruction work carried out after the Great Patriotic War that the almost completely destroyed suburbs of Leningrad, such as Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk, and others, became the most visited places for tourists and were unanimously included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1990. Theoretically, it was possible not to restore them... the ruins would have remained, and probably would not have remained at all...