The Baka House in St. Petersburg restored its pre-revolutionary doors.

In the house 24 on Kirochnaya Street on the initiative and efforts of the residents themselves restored the historic doors in the front porches.

The story of restoration began in 2017, when the residents of the house became aware that several doors from the front porches ended up in the Rubinstein Café, where they were used for interior design. From the profitable house, built in the early XX century by architect Julian Bak, they disappeared back in the late 1990s: the public utilities then replaced the wooden doors with iron ones.

By the time the two pairs of historic doors were found, the residents of the house had already created a community in social networks, which was engaged in a project to return the building to its historic appearance.

Each front door is a whole complex of objects: two pairs of wooden doors, a vestibule between them with ceramic tiles on the floor, wooden doors on the sides of the vestibule and its heating system. The surviving historic doors were restored, the missing two pairs were recreated using their samples, the upper glazed transoms above the doors and the flooring were restored, and the door handles were recreated using available photographs.

And now, almost seven years after the beginning of this epic, two pairs of historical doors and two pairs of doors recreated from their samples have taken their original place in the two front entrances.