The blogger and urbanist Ilya Varlamov suggested that the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov participate in a joint walk around the city. Varlamov releases the BDSM show on Utube - “Big Road with the mayor”. In this show, he walks around the cities with their leaders. At different times, the heads of Kaliningrad, Perm, Lipetsk, Surgut, Makhachkala and other cities appeared there. The blogger suggested participating in the filming and Beglov.

Blogger-urbanist Ilya Varlamov visited the Petersburg village of Shushary and ridiculed him on his blog, ironically calling him "little Switzerland." Varlamov, who regularly criticizes the dense and high -rise buildings of microdistricts in the cities of Russia , is ironic and “admires” the shushars in the post. For example, he talks about “special water tanks” along the sidewalks, applying photos with asphalt flooded after rain.

In one of his posts, the blogger Ilya Varlamov compared how they treated historical buildings in Moscow and in St. Petersburg. For example, he took the pre -revolutionary house 10 in Potapovsky Lane in Moscow, where, in his opinion, they carried out exemplary repairs. Varlamov believes that this does not happen in St. Petersburg. The apartment building was built in the period from 1914 to 1916.

Blogger Ilya Varlamov in an interview with Sports.ru criticized the architecture of the St. Petersburg stadium, calling it one of the most ugly arenial areas that adopted the World Cup. When asked about the impressions of the St. Petersburg stadium, Varlamov answered: “****** (nightmare - approx. Sports.ru). The most ugly. From the point of view of architecture, I was at 50 years old. ” According to Varlamov, the stadium has too large the number of elements inconsistent with each other.

Blogger Ilya Varlamov conducted a study of ads about sex services in different areas of St. Petersburg. In particular, he calculated which names are more common. So, for example, in the Central District in the ads, the most Diana and AN, in Moscow - Dash and Sabin, and in Primorsky - Yul and Vic. Zara and Masha are most often found in the Vyborsky district, and Olya and Kristina in Kirovsky. In total, the blogger analyzed advertising in eight regions of the city.

The governor of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko suggested Blogger Ilya Varlamov to head the Public Council for the reconstruction of the historical quarter in the center of Vyborg. Varlamov told about this in an interview with “Paper”, clarifying that he did not accept the proposal. Ilya Varlamov , blogger: - All my experience of such interaction shows that this is all non -constructive [...] in my opinion, it is much more effective at a safe distance to poke a sharp stick into power.

The blogger Ilya Varlamov wrote a post called “Like us, Muscovites, to equip Peter”, in which he proposed to evict all the inhabitants from St. Petersburg “as a punishment for what they did with a beautiful city.” The blogger also said that “Muscovite must become,” and Petersburg accepts “any without face control”.

The blogger Ilya Varlamov wrote a post in which he stated that the new microdistricts like the St. Petersburg Parnas must be demolished. He called such microdistricts a “ghetto” with a lack of infrastructure. As an example of solving the problem of Varlamov, he cited such microdistricts that have already been demolished in other countries of the world. Ilya Varlamov , blogger: - Sooner or later it will become clear that such a format of housing hides a bunch of problems. So what to do?

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