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Petersburg: The action was held in defense of the Basevich House
In St. Petersburg, several journalists went to single pickets in defense of Basevich’s house on Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street, 7, given to the city authorities for the needs of the Dance Academy Boris Eifman. The campaign was attended by journalists Svyatoslav Afonkin, Artem Alexandrov, Elena Mikhina, Oleg Mukhin, the representative of the movement “NOT ANYLY” Vladimir Kaplyuk, they had posters in their hands: “Paws away from Basevich’s house!”, “Which dancer of Basevich’s house interferes?”, “Makarova-Eifman Pact-cheating in Petersburg”.
The city defenders and residents of the Petrograd side have long been defending Basevich’s house from demolition. Information about the end of the trial in the house was a new reason for anxiety: it turned out that a resident Dmitry Kuklin filed a lawsuit to the committee on the state use and protection of cultural monuments (GIOP) on the recognition of KGIOP to the demolition of most of the house illegal. Before the New Year, Kuklin lost this lawsuit, but the defenders of the house learned about this process just a few days ago, they suggest that he had the character of a "outstanding appeal."
According to the deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the All -Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments Alexander Kononov, KGIOP did not post information on the approval of a sketch project on his website, involving the demolition of most of the housings of the house, so the city defenders could not find out and challenge this conclusion in the court. “The fact that a person who has not known and never defended Basevich’s house has learned about him says that everything was done so that no one could appeal this conclusion in a legal way. This is a fake applicant who was specially provided with this information to file a lawsuit,” said Alexander Kononov. According to him, the city defenders are now consulting with lawyers to develop an action plan to protect the house.
Journalists made a statement where they explain that they forced them to change their usual rules to stay on the fight. These rules are “not applicable to the egregious cases of barbaric destruction of the historical heritage of St. Petersburg! Unfortunately, it is such a fate in the near future that the brightest sample of the modern era can befall - the apartment building of the engineer Basevich. Despite his repairs proved by an independent examination, the new“ owners ”are easier to demolish ... than to repair what has reached us in centuries. We are sure that we are sure that in this situation to remain in this situation. The side and keeping silent is the same as becoming an accomplice of criminals destroying our city! ”, The statement said. It is assumed that the performance of journalists is only part of the campaign to protect the house.
The tenant house of I. I. Basevich was built by the architect A. I. Zasorsky in 1912 in the Art Nouveau style. In 2014, it was included in the program "Youth - Affordable Housing", they were going to repair it and transfer it to young families. But in 2016, at the request of the choreographer Boris Eifman, he was excluded from this program and was given to the boarding school for students of the Dance Academy. The project was developed by the company "Project Culture". The inhabitants of the Petrograd side are outraged not only by the intention to destroy one of the most beautiful houses of Pushkarskaya Street, but also to take a kindergarten with a green zone for the needs of the Academy for the needs of the Academy.