Narkomfin's house will be rid of extensions

During the restoration of the monument of constructivism, the Houses of the People's Commissariat for Narcomfin in Moscow, all late extensions will be dismantled.

This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Moscow Urban Policy Policy Department

“The restoration project provides for the dismantling of all superstructures and extensions to the historical volume of the building, the opening of space on the ground floor, and the restoration of the initial volumetric and planning structure of the interiors. It is also supposed to restore the outer walls and operated roofs, the water disposal system of the roof and the characteristic scheme of engineering communications inside the walls and ceilings, as well as the restoration and reconstruction of the lost part of the metal stained glass, ”the pre-head of the head of the department Sergei Levkin quotes.

He also said that the building completed dismantling the opening of the space of the first floor and the work on the installation of internal engineering systems has begun, by the end of the month it is planned to begin the restoration of facades.

The six-story residential house-communal house on Novinsky Boulevard was built for employees of the People’s Commissariat of Finance of the USSR in 1928-1930 according to the project of architects Moses Ginzburg and Ignatius Milinis. The House of the People's Commissariat is an object of cultural heritage of regional significance. In 2004, the World Monuments Fund made the building to the list of architectural monuments, which threatens total destruction.

In August 2016, bidding took place on the sale of squares of the House of Narkomfin, owned by the city of Moscow. Their owner was the company League of Rights, which conducted an engineering and technical survey of the building and developed a project of its comprehensive restoration with maximum preservation of historical appearance and layout.

The restoration of the Narkomfin house began in the summer of 2017 and should end in July 2019.

“Now the fate of this wonderful object is safe, and after a year two Muscovites will see a restored object, which, of course, is the pride of architecture,” said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in August last year. Then Sberbank opened the League of Rights with a credit line with a volume of 855 million rubles for restoration and adaptation of the building for modern use.