The house of Stroyburo is demolished

On Sunday, March 8, a monument of constructivism, the house of Stroyburo, was demolished in the queen near Moscow.

“The house was really demolished, and we did not see permits for demolition. The Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region said that it plans to submit an application to the prosecutor ’s office with the aim of checking the demolition of the building, ”Olga Melnikova, deputy chairman of the local branch of the Local branch of the All -Russian Society for the Protection of History and Culture Monuments (Vodopiik).

She added that as a result of demolition, apparently, the painting of the artist Vasily Maslov was lost.

REGNUM Melnikova said that the city administration decided to demolish the house of Stroyburo to the arrival of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who should visit Korolev today, March 10.

The city defenders who tried to prevent the demolition of the building were beaten, reports Radio Liberty . The police did not interfere. They demolished the building without observing safety precautions - the last rest of the wall fell on the sidewalk and the road behind the fence, only by a happy chance without touching any of the passers -by. The head of the Moscow Regional Branch VOOPIK Evgeny Square compared the destruction of the building of Stroyburo with the actions of Islamic militants, destroying cultural monuments in Iraq.

Built in 1928-1935, the house of Stroyburo, part of the architectural ensemble of the Bolshevskaya labor commune (Arch. A.Ya. Langman and L.Z. Cherikover), local authorities wanted to demolish and give the land plot for multi -storey buildings.

In the fall of 2013, the building began to be demolished, but the activists of VOOPIIK, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region, managed to stop the demolition , the house of Stroyburo was included in the list of newly identified cultural heritage sites.

In February 2014, the authorities of the Moscow Region and the New Jordan charity foundation signed an agreement on the restoration of the building, it was supposed to create a spiritual and educational center and the Museum of the Bolshevsk labor community.

In connection with the demolition of the house of Stroyburo, the Archnadzor public movement published a statement that states that the events in Korolev showed “the complete failure and incapacity of the entire current state legacy protection system”. Close-defenders require the authorities and law enforcement agencies “a thorough investigation of events related to the demolition of the building of Stroyburo, identifying and identifying their organizers and executors, initiating a criminal case under the 243th article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”.

“We demand that these cases end with a trial over the destroyers of the legacy of Russia,” the Archnadzor statement said.