Architecture as an obstacle to the development of Moscow

Concrete blocks on Pushkinskaya Square - a sign of another "reconstruction"

Another construction was suspended in Moscow, which caused the protests of the city’s inhabitants. She unfolded on the site of the historical building-the Helikon-Opera Theater on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. The acting first deputy mayor of Moscow, Yuri Roslyak, promised to figure out why they demolished part of the building, and said that representatives of the Archnadzor movement would attract the Helicon-Opera reconstruction project.

Defenders of old Moscow expect respect for cultural heritage and the appearance of the city from the potential mayor Sergei Sobyanin . In particular, according to the coordinator of the Archnadzor movement , Rustama Rakhmatullin , now is the best moment to dismantle the monument to Peter the Great. Rakhmatullin emphasizes that Arkhnadzor will set the new city authorities the task of observing the law in the field of protecting monuments and urban planning activities in the historical center:

The urban planning policy should, of course, change, as well as a policy in relation to heritage and construction in a historical city. You need to start simply - with the recognition of the law by law

- The urban planning policy should, of course, change, as well as a policy regarding heritage and construction in a historical city. It is necessary to start with a simple one - to agree with the letter and the spirit of the law, to forget the word "demolition" in relation to the monuments of culture, and the word "remake" only to what is lost before us. In general, I would like the new head of the city to be interesting to old Moscow. The initial condition should be its inviolability. Obviously, the urban planning policy in the field of heritage protection was a failure.

The press conference of the chief architect of Moscow Alexander Kuzmin could give answers to many questions that excite Muscovites. This is the transfer of the monument to Peter the Great , and the revision of the general plan, and the urban planning policy under the new mayor, and the events around the Pushkin Square , and the construction in the historical part of the city. However, these answers were not received, since the main person involved in the press conference-Alexander Kuzmin-did not come to her, citing a poor state of health. For Kuzmin, as they say, the President of the Union of Architects of Russia Andrei Volkov and the deputy of the Moscow City Duma Ivan Novitsky were “picked up”. During the press conference, it turned out that the monument to Peter the Great is not interfering with the architects, and that they did not know anything about the events on Pushkinskaya Square. The deputy Novitsky continued to insist that the construction of highways, interchanges and parking lots in the historical center of Moscow is necessary:

-Without road transport construction, we will not solve the problem of traffic jams in Moscow. In the city center without underground construction - this shows the experience of all the largest European cities - you can’t solve the problem with parking, although it is quite expensive. Therefore, options for the construction of interchanges and parking lots still need to be decided - of course, discussing with the public, realizing how to maintain a historical heritage. Underground interchanges also need to be built, because, of course, in the city center there are no flyover, there will be no other interchanges. As for the general plan and the rules of land use and development, I already said that we could neither accept the general plan, because the city should develop by law.