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Gazprom also loves Trinity
In St. Petersburg, skyscrapers are being built again. And the population is raised by gas tariffs (where it is)
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Gazprom proposed to increase gas tariffs in the domestic market twice a year - in the first and fourth quarters, and at least 10%. For "more flexible response to market changes."
And at the same time in St. Petersburg, despite the opinion of residents and city defenders, stubbornly push the construction of two new Gazprom skyscrapers, even higher than the existing Lakhta Center.
In the "Energy Supreme Power", in general, 69% of the population has access to gas, while in Siberia - 6%, in the Far East - 16% (twenty years ago the government promised to gasify the whole country in 10 years).
There is no money for this. And we collect children with the whole world for the treatment of children.
And there is money for skyscrapers. Not enough - they will raise tariffs.
... At a meeting of the Duma Energy Committee, the representative of Gazprom, Alexei Sakharov, said that gas prices in Russia should increase "to a level that allows financing gasification projects and the implementation of large investment projects."
The Federal Antimonopoly Service is now “working out” the proposal of Gazprom together with the company, the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Economic Development, but so far there is no decision. The head of the department, Maxim Shaskolsky (in the past, the vice-governor of St. Petersburg in energy) says that they will evaluate the influence of this change in tariffs on the cost of electricity, the cost of gas for consumers. But there are no specific numbers - there are only “different sentences”.
Meanwhile, in St. Petersburg, on the website of the Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture, materials of the planning project for the street-road network (UDS) have appeared in the two Lakhta Center-2, and Lakhta Center-3 planned Gazprom.
Long -term plans: until 2031 it is planned to connect new towers to the existing UDS, and the seizure of several sections of individual housing construction (in other words, private houses will be demolished for the Gazprom ambitions),
Until 2042 - the full development of the UDS and the placement of the transport interchange in the quarter adjacent to the towers.
Recall that the height of the new towers should be 555 and 703 meters - the corresponding agreement on the intent of the project of the project city authorities and the Synergy company signed in Gazprom signed in 2024. Smolny refused to give me the text of the agreement as a deputy, citing a “commercial secret” (which are not close here).
In 2025, in the rules of land use and development of St. Petersburg, a separate zone-the “public and business area of unique high-altitude buildings”, with a height of at least 300 meters, “spelled out” a separate zone for new skyscrapers. There are no analogues in Russia or in the world: there are zones where it is impossible to build above a certain value, but there are no zones where you can only build higher than a certain value.
The draft rules were submitted for public discussion, and more than 50 people sent a simple proposal to it: generally remove this “unique” zone from the project. The government ignored this proposal.
Earlier, when the legislative assembly made amendments to the law on the boundaries and regimes of the protection zones of cultural heritage (OKN), the Yabloko faction proposed an amendment, which would not allow the emergence of new skyscrapers against the backdrop of citywide panels of the city. They didn’t accept - Smolny opposed, the parliamentary majority refused to vote for the amendment.
Experts in the field of cultural heritage protection, city -defenders and opposition politicians protest against the emergence of new “gas screes”, reasonably indicating that they will be perfectly visible from the city center and even more distort its historical species, which the first “Lakhta Center” is already invading, about 460 meters high. But to no avail: Smolny, in every possible way supporting Gazprom, refuses to listen to objections.
True, Governor Alexander Beglov recently stated that the city authorities are ready to discuss the project for the construction of new skyscrapers with UNESCO, and are ready to accept international experts.
He also said that the place for new skyscrapers is not included in the boundaries of the protection zones of historical St. Petersburg, and is outside the main city panoramas.
And that "the investor has prepared a detailed assessment of the impact on the World Heritage Site."
Yes, the place for new skyscrapers is really not included in the security zones. But against the backdrop of the "main city panoramas", new towers will be very visible.
Let me remind you that at one time when the first Lakhta Center planned, representatives of the administration and their propagandists tirelessly assured that it would not be seen from the city center.
Come to St. Petersburg, reader, and walk along the palace embankment - and you will see the Lachtinsky "Gaskreb" right from the Hermitage. And not only in good weather, but also in ordinary, cloud. It is not visible only in the rain or fog.
By the way, it is in connection with this and other scandalous projects of high-rise construction once to the city law on the boundaries and regimes of the OKN protection zones in an attempt to calm the public introduced “panoramic” restrictions.
Namely: the emergence of new high-altitude buildings and structures that distort the historical panoramas of the city is not allowed, at a distance of 6 kilometers from the “main dominant” (such as the exchange with rostral columns, the cathedral mosque, Kazan and Prince-Vladimir Cathedrals, the Duma with a city tower, Kunstkamera, saved the book and others), and at a distance of 11 kilometers-from “Constitible dominant” (Peter and Paul Cathedral, Isaac's Cathedral, Admiralty, Smolny Cathedral, Trinity Cathedral, Alexander Column).
Apparently, they proceeded from the fact that some could constantly hang in our city, and the skyscraper at a distance of farther 6 km (and even more so 11 km) will no longer be visible.
However, the “gas screens” with the Palace Embankment (from a distance of 9.5 km), and even the 145-meter tower on the Constitution Square “Leader Tower” from Isaac's Square (from a distance of 9 km) is perfectly visible every day, in the most ordinary weather.
Meanwhile, according to the requirements of paragraph 103 of the leadership on the implementation of the Convention on the Protection of the World Heritage of 1972 (the UNESCO commission should be observed and should be checked), "wherever it is necessary to ensure proper protection of the facility, an appropriate buffer zone should be provided."
Well, where are these buffer zones for St. Petersburg as a UNESCO World Heritage Site? But there are still no them - although the 1972 Convention was ratified and entered into force for the USSR and Russia more than 35 years ago ...
It is interesting, of course, what international experts will say, if, of course, they come. And what kind of experts will be (it would be nice, not like “international observers” in the Russian elections).
Well, in assessing the impact on the world heritage object that the investor “prepared”, there is no doubt: I have not yet had to read a single such assessment, where the investor honestly admitted that the structure he had conceived will sink historical species ...
It is curious, by the way, that against the appearance of the second and third “gas screes” is ... the architect of the first, Philip Nikandrov.
Like, the “higher Lakhta-2” and “Lakhta-3” will simply destroy the carefully planned harmony of the existing ensemble, ”and“ around the “Lakhta of the Center” can and should be built new buildings and complexes, but they should be subordinate “Lakhta” and not to compete with its dominant in height. ”
And there is another question of the cost of Gazprom's ambitions: the first Lakhta Center cost 120 billion rubles, the second and third is unlikely to be cheaper. And this is not the money earned by the hard work of the “talented managers” of the gas company, but the money received from the sale of natural resources - which, according to the Constitution, public treasure. So the question, “at whose expense is a banquet,” has a simple answer: for ours.
In general, the desire for gigantism-“higher and higher, and higher”-is seen by a clear manifestation of the deepest complexes: the smaller people-the higher they try to build something ...
Last. Another Gazprom plan is to put an 82-meter pillar near the first Lakhta Center (appeal by the year of the climb of Peter the Great to the throne) and establish the statue of Peter on its top.
That's just Peter (which the city and Russian authorities constantly recall, calling themselves the successors of his glorious affairs) sought the story of the country along the European path, adopted the best European scientific and technical achievements, invited foreign architects, engineers, scientists, builders, military and civilian specialists to the country. We will hear that the descendants who erect monuments will be fenced off by a deaf fence from Europe - the cane would break off the back of the predictor.