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Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Accounts Chamber to check the preparation of the construction of the Gazprom office in St. Petersburg. According to Kommersant Wednesday, this is stated in a letter from Putin’s adviser to the culture of Yuri Laptev to the chairman of the International Public Organization for the salvation of monuments of Russian architecture and landscape Arkady Nebelsin.

Laptev writes that "the consideration of the construction of the Office Complex" Gazprom "is under the constant observation of the executive branch of the Russian Federation, while the coordination of measures to consider" compliance with legislation and the preservation of the city landscape of St. Petersburg "was entrusted with the presidential plenipotentiary in the North-Western Federal District Ilya Klebanov. The same letter states that the issue of the construction of the Gazprom office complex is considered by the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. "

The Accounts Chamber said that in terms of checks for 2007 this project is not listed. As the source of the newspaper specified, usually SP checks projects for targeted expenditure of funds, but since Okhta Center has not actually embodied, there is nothing to check. ”

The publication reports that the delegates of the conference of the St. Petersburg Union of Architects, which includes 1,600 members, announced the day before to prevent the construction of a 396-meter office near the historical center of St. Petersburg. They also supported the appeal of members of the City Town Planning Council and the Council for Cultural Heritage, which states that Smolny falsified the results of the public examination of the project.

In the final decision of the Town Planning Council, signed by the chief architect of the city Alexander Viktorov, it is said that this body "approved the main directions of the concept of development of the territory of Okhta" and "recognized the placement of a high -altitude object in its composition." However, members of the Council argue that "most experts oppose the construction of a skyscraper." Nevertheless, according to the architects, this opinion was not reflected in the final protocol of the city council. The chief architect only promised to “take into account the comments” on “clarifying the parameters of the high -rise structure” and consider them at another meeting at the design stage.

The same situation has developed around the discussion of the project by the St. Petersburg Council for the preservation of cultural heritage. He almost unanimously opens against the construction of the Okhta Center. But no protocols on this subject appeared in the relevant committee for the protection of monuments of St. Petersburg. Five members of the St. Petersburg Council have already sent an open letter to the Director of the UNESCO Center for the UNESCO Francesco Bandarin, which refers to the “profanation of public opinion” in St. Petersburg, which “can most significantly affect the fate of the unique architectural ensemble of the historical center.”