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The sale of the cinema "Leningrad" was canceled
The sale of the cinema "Leningrad" was canceled
The Moscow government revised its decision to sell the Leningrad cinema and the construction of a shopping and entertainment center in the Bratsk cemetery of the victims of the First World War.
The website of the Archnadzor public movement provides a scan of letters from the Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow (Moskomarchitecture), which refers to the cancellation of the transaction “In connection with the numerous appeals of citizens to the Moscow government with categorical objections against increasing the parameters of the Leningrad cinema”. ”
The memorial-park complex of heroes of the First World War is located at the Sokol metro station in the north of Moscow. In 1915, the Moscow City Bratsk cemetery of the victims of the First World War opened here. In Soviet times, the cemetery was liquidated, and in its place a park was divided, the territory of which is an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.
In 1958, the Leningrad cinema was built in the park. It has the status of a valuable city -forming object, which allows it to reconstruct it without changing urban planning characteristics, i.e. Without increasing area, volume and height.
In August 2013, Moskomarchitecture, at the request of the Moscow Property Department, agreed on the construction of a 2.5-times larger area with underground parking and adjacent infrastructure at the site of Leningrad.
Residents of the Sokol district gathered thousands of signatures under the letters of protest, sent dozens of appeals to the authorities, held rallies and pickets in defense of the memorial park.
The Archnadzor is considered "the park that has already been established on the site of the cemetery ... the only possible option for the existence of the memorial." According to the city-defenders, the Leningrad cinema could open the Museum of the First World War in the former cinema, and make the entire memorial and park complex a national monument-the federal object of cultural heritage.