The Caspian resort will have parking lots, the necessary service infrastructure, and landscaping.
Russia's Main State Expert Review Board has confirmed that the design and estimate documentation and engineering surveys comply with building codes, technical regulations, and safety requirements. The projects for the improvement of the resort area and car parks have received a positive conclusion.
"We pay special attention to the safety of facilities. We will not only improve the coastal area, which stretches for more than six and a half kilometers, but also strengthen the coastline. We plan to build coastal protection structures. According to the project, these will be rough wave-breaking berms made of large stones. They will protect the beach from the negative impact of waves and make our guests' stay more comfortable," said Vladimir Lapukhin, Deputy CEO of Kavkaz.RF.
The improvement works will be carried out in two stages. The first will cover an area of more than 195,000 square meters, and the second will be slightly smaller, at 189,000 square meters.
"In the east, the cluster is washed by the Caspian Sea, and in the west, it is bordered by the foothills of the Greater Caucasus. The development site is a planned area that will feature a paved embankment, a bike path, pedestrian walkways and sidewalks, areas with small architectural forms, and green spaces," said Elena Ostapenko, representative of the Russian State Expert Review Board and chief expert of the project.
The infrastructure will be complemented by pavilions with rental points, toilets, mother and child rooms, amphitheaters on the boulevard and embankment, stands at sports grounds, and stairs.
Five car parks will appear at the resort. Two of them will be open-air and located at the entrances to the cluster – in the north from Makhachkala and in the south from Derbent. In addition, the project provides for the construction of three above-ground multi-level five-storey car parks. Two of them will have parking spaces for 12 buses, and the total number of parking spaces for cars in the multi-level parking lots will be almost 1,800.
The Caspian resort improvement project has already become a sensation in the architectural world—it has been shortlisted for the prestigious ADD Awards in the Landscape Design category and published as a project of the future on the popular Archi.ru portal. In the coming days, it will be defended for the Russian Landscape Architects Association Award (ALAROS). The general designer is the Bristol-Project consortium, and the concept developer is the Yarus design center with the participation of DK architects and Garden Group.
Previously, the projects for the construction of roads and engineering networks for the Caspian resort received a positive conclusion from the Main State Expert Review Board of Russia.
Currently, a multifunctional center is under construction on the second coastline—a four-story building with a total area of 7,500 square meters. Some of the earthworks have already been completed, and concrete work is underway to construct the foundation slab.
The Caspian coastal cluster in Dagestan is being created on the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation and is part of the large-scale presidential project “Five Seas and Lake Baikal.” This is a joint project of the Republic's government and Kavkaz.RF, coordinated by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.