That the Russian Orthodox Church demanded to transfer it to her over the past 5 years

At the end of 2022, the Russian Orthodox Church demanded to transfer her the house of the Alexander Nevsky Theological School on the Obvodny Canal. Shortly before this, the church received a house in the city center for free of charge, where the faculty of social technologies of the RANEPA is located.

In total, over the past 5 years, the St. Petersburg diocese at least 12 times appealed to Smolny with a request to transfer city property for free - referring to the law that religious organizations can claim real estate that belonged to them until 1918. However, the authorities did not fulfill all the requests of the church.

"Paper" tells which buildings in St. Petersburg the Russian Orthodox Church demanded for use and which of them she managed to get.

On what basis does the Russian Orthodox Church demand to transfer the buildings to her? ↓

On November 30, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed Federal Law No. 327 “On the transfer of religious property to religious or municipal property to religious organizations.”

The law determines the procedure for transferring to religious organizations, primarily the Russian Orthodox Church, the property that they owned until 1918 - then the USSR seized all religious property in its favor.

House of the Alexander Nevsky Antoniyevsky Theological School on the Obvodny Canal

Address: Obvodny Channel Embankment, 9, 2l

Status: Until the Russian Orthodox Church

In December 2022, the St. Petersburg Theological Academy of the Russian Orthodox Church asked Smolny to transfer to her the ownership of the house of the Alexander Nevsky Antoniyevsky Theological School. The application says that the Russian Orthodox Church needed a building to place the educational building there. By the end of January, the construction was still not transferred to the church and is in use at the academy.

The two -story building was built in 1868 as a residential building at a spiritual school and was recognized as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance. The house was abandoned for a long time, most of it was destroyed. In the summer of 2021, work began there, but which ones are unknown. Fontanka writes that in the summer of 2022 the Ministry of Culture played a contract for the preparation of design documentation for restoration. The amount of the contract is 18 million rubles, work is funded from the federal budget.

The building of the Faculty of Social Technologies of the North-Western Institute of Management of the RANEPA

Address: Chernyakhovsky street, 6/10

Status: It was decided to transfer the Russian Orthodox Church

In October 2022, the arrival of the Cossack Cossack Cathedral asked the St. Petersburg authorities to transfer 14 premises in the house on Chernyakhovsky Street, where the faculty of social technologies of the RANEPA is located. The request caused fears among students who study in this building.

The Church explained the request by the fact that the house was built on the land of the Crusaders of the Church in 1898-1899 and that in its place the Alexander-Mariinsky House of Causion of the Zalatnaya and Orphanskous clergy of the St. Petersburg diocese was located.

Smolny later announced that the building would be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, but the faculty would remain there for another five years. Vice-Governor Boris Piotrovsky said that the authorities studied the “legal aspects”, according to which the church has the right to the building, but “reached an agreement” with the Russian Orthodox Church so that the RASSHS students continue to go to the campus five years after its transfer to the church.

The building of the bread barn of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg

Address: Obvodny Channel Embankment, 3a

Status : It was decided to transfer the Russian Orthodox Church

In November 2022, the Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church demanded that Smolny free of charge to transfer the bread barn of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra to her. The building is part of the monument of regional significance "Bread barns of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra."

The application says that the ROC diocese is used for free of charge under the 1993 agreement. However, the church wants to get a building in the property "for use in accordance with the goals of the diocese defined by the Charter." What does this mean, the application is not specified.

The diocese pointed out that the bread barns built “in the middle of the 19th century on the land plot of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra at the expense of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra and the private funds raised by it,” so it can apply for the building. Three weeks later, the authorities approved the transfer of the ROC building.

Five buildings on Kamskaya Street next to the entrance to the Smolensk cemetery

Address: Kamskaya street, 16b, 18v, 20g, 22d, 24e

Status : Until the Russian Orthodox Church

In May 2022, the Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church demanded to transfer five buildings on Kamskaya Street to her - next to the entrance to the Smolensk cemetery.

The application claimed that all houses, except for the 24th, were built from 1883 to 1900 and previously belonged to the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God. Now they are in the free use of the Russian Orthodox Church, there is a pilgrimage hotel, Sunday school of the Smolensk Temple, the Museum of St. Ksenia Blessed and the refectory.

The buildings have not yet been transferred to the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church. Houses 16, 18, 20 and 22 belong to monuments of federal significance.

SIZO "Crosses" on Arsenalnaya Embankment

Address: Arsenalnaya Embankment, 7, building 1

Status: not transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church

In June 2021, it became known that by the end of the year the Federal Penitentiary Service will transfer the complex of the investigative insulator “Crosses”, which occupies 4 hectares. The pre -trial detention center was one of the most famous places of imprisonment in Russia - they often contained political prisoners: for example, Leo Trotsky, Leo Gumilyov and Joseph Brodsky.

Fontanka, citing sources, reported that in 2020, the Federal Penitentiary Service had negotiated with the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Emergencies, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Government of St. Petersburg, as well as with representatives of the AFK Sistema and the entrepreneur Anatoly Bernstein, but no one wanted to take the Building of the pre -trial detention center. In the summer of 2021, the St. Petersburg Metropolitan Barsanofius proposed to transmit a complex of the Russian Orthodox Church, but there was no reaction.

In November 2022, the state -owned company “Dom.rf” put up most of the buildings and the territory of the former investigative insulator “Crosses”, that is, the authorities do not plan to transfer the complex of the church for free. Some buildings and buildings on the territory of the investigative insulator have the status of newly identified objects of cultural heritage - this means that the object may lose their security status or, conversely, become a monument.

Museum of City Sculpture

Address: Embankment of the Monastery River, 1

Status: partially Transferred by the Russian Orthodox Church

At the end of October 2020, the Russian Orthodox Church asked the governor Alexander Beglov to transfer to her six objects of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, which is occupied by the Museum of City Sculpture. These are three churches, an almshouse, a singing corps and a residential building. The basis for the application was that the premises are located on the territory of Lavra.

The museum’s complex included the Annunciation and Lazarevskaya Churches, the Necropolis of the XVIII century, the necropolis of the art masters and the exhibition hall of the Necropolis of the Arts of Arts. The Russian Orthodox Church owns a male monastery.

In March 2021, the authorities transferred the ROC of the premises on the second floor of the Annunciation Church, where the museum of urban sculpture was previously located. I have not yet received the rest of the requested premises and buildings of the Russian Orthodox Church. The museum itself moved to the premises on Nevsky, 19.

The building of the tuberculosis dispensary on Borovaya Street

Address: Borovaya street, 1

Status : Until the ROC

In 2015, the Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church demanded to transfer the building of the current anti -TB dispensary No. 17 for the free use of the building capacity of the institution, the Fontanka wrote , and is 250 visits per day. In 2019, 320 patients with active forms of tuberculosis, 531 clinically cured patients and 7429 patients in other risk groups were observed there.

In March 2021, Smolny finally decided to transfer the building of the dispensary to the ROC. The authorities explained this by the fact that the building of the former monastery courtyard on Borovaya 1 refers to the property of religious purposes, which means that it must be transferred "in accordance with regulatory acts."

Later, the authorities said that they would not build a new tubenser, but will unite the dispensers of the Frunze and Moscow districts, since “the number of patients in need of help is gradually decreasing in St. Petersburg. So, as of January 1, 2022, only 1,521 people were treated in the city with active cases of tuberculosis. ”

By August 2022, the Tubdasinter was never handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church. He continues to work today.

Monastery Island

Address: The whole island

Status: Until the Russian Orthodox Church

In December 2020, the Bishop of Kronstadt Nazariy said that the Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church wanted to receive the entire monastery island, on the territory of which the Alexander Nevskaya Lavra, the Theological Academy and several more objects associated with the church are located.

Smolny responded to this statement and the request to transfer six buildings of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra restrainedly and said that part of the buildings, for example, Blagoveshchenskaya and Lazarevsky, cannot be transferred according to norms, and the rest is possible-but inappropriate.

The plot with the transfer of the entire monastery island of the Russian Orthodox Church never received a continuation.

Ridnitsa when saving on the blood

Address: Embankment of the Griboedov channel, 2a

Status: not transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church

On February 28, 2020 , it became known that the St. Petersburg diocese asked Smolny to transfer the Savior on the Blood to the ROC. The existence of such an appeal in a conversation with Fontanka was then confirmed by the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Kirillov. According to Fontanka, the diocese sent the appeal back in October 2019.

Later, the Committee of Property Relations clarified that we are not talking about the temple itself, but about the Ridnitsa chapel-a premises for storing church utensils, which is located at the Savior. Officials noted that the appeal of the diocese cannot be considered an official application and the question of the transfer of the building will be considered only if the diocese provides the necessary package of documents.

The diocese never submitted a package of documents, so the church was not transferred yet.

Cathedral of the Archangel Michael

Address: Palace Prospekt 61

Status: Unknown

At the end of 2019, the Russian Orthodox Church asked for free of charge to transfer the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael in Lomonosov. The Russian Orthodox Church referred to the Federal Law on the transfer of property to religious organizations.

The cathedral was erected in 1914 in Oranienbaum in return for the old wooden. It is recognized as an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.

Whether the Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church is transferred is unknown.

Isaac's Cathedral

Address: Isaakievskaya Square, 4

Status: not transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church

In 2011, the head of the KGIOP, Alexander Makarov, proposed using the building of the Isaac's Cathedral only as a temple, but the official did not support the initiative. In the summer of 2015, the Russian Orthodox Church demanded to transfer the Isaacievsky Cathedral to her, as well as saved the Blood of the Smolny Monastery on the blood.

In September 2015, the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko said that the authorities would not transfer the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. But the new round of the conflict with the transfer of the cathedral unfolded at the beginning of 2017-then Poltavchenko himself instructed to transfer the Isaac ROC by the end of the year.

Petersburgers launched a campaign against the transfer of the cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church. They arranged folk gatherings and rallies, held promotions in the cathedral, collected signatures and organized a comic referendum .

In 2019, the authorities refused to transfer the St. Isaac's Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The building of the Russian National Library on the Obvodny Canal

Address : Obvodny Channel Embankment, 11

Status: transmitted to the Russian Orthodox Church

At the beginning of 2017, it became known that the Theological Academy asked to transfer the building of the RST on the bypass channel, which was built in 1882 and was recognized as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance for use.

The building was given to the Russian Orthodox Church in early 2018 under the law on the transfer of religious property to religious organizations.

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