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Rostov-on-Don

UNIQUENESS OF ROSTOV ARCHITECTURE

Surprisingly, the historical center in Rostov-on-Don is well-preserved. Approximately 2,500 buildings were built before the revolution - the fourth-highest in the country.

View of Voroshilovsky AVE. and st. Friedrich Engels

Bolshaya Moskovskaya Hotel

The architecture of Rostov is a value that is not yet particularly recognized. The city is an open-air museum: the city of merchants, the city of avant-garde, the city of the five-year industrial plan, Rostov-Papa, and many more.

Architectural monuments are not renovated. They are slowly deteriorating. Historical sites have no status and are massively destroyed, or prepared for demolition, by dozens of quarters.

REMOVAL OF «CULTURAL HERITAGE SITE» STATUS

The security status has already been removed from buildings in Rostov several times. This status protects buildings from rebuilding, restructuring and demolition.

The last time this happened to Semashko 32. It was recognized as an object of cultural heritage about 10 years ago, but last year the status was removed.

At first they fenced one building, and then the second one, where people still lived.

In past years, hundreds of valuable buildings have lost their historical appearance under this program. The brickwork was covered with plaster, the fretwork decoration was re-created in a simplified manner, or simply knocked down.

Recently, it has become better - they listen to the recommendations more often and the quality of work has increased.

MORATORIUM ON DEMOLITION

There are more than 200 unsafe houses in the city, and about half of them have architectural and historical value. The moratorium is needed in order to determine which houses are valuable and should be preserved, and which can be demolished.

Houses that can still be saved:

House of the architect GRIGORYAN

Building of «Priazovsky Kray» newspaper

«Priazovsky Kray» newspaper

In addition to this introduction, it is necessary to introduce a temporary ban on new construction in some parts of the city until the emergence of standards for the integrated development of territories.

The list of temporarily "forbidden" consists of Kirov and Leninsky districts, Nakhichevan, Selmashstroy, Gnilovskaya, Aleksandrovskaya, Lengorodok.

Apartment house of A. G. Guterman

The most striking example is the house on Stanislavsky, 39. It was due to be demolished last year.

The stir among the public helped defend it, but emergency work was not carried out and the building

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Information support is the most important thing. The more requests from the public for the preservation of the historical center of Rostov, the faster the administration will act.

M. Gorky Drama Theatre

B. Sadovaya street and Taganrog ave

You can learn more about the current fundraising or collected signatures from the news of the organizations «My Facade», «Tom Sawyer Fest», «Attention» Foundation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

Department of the State Bank

ANNA Sholokhova

Trying to save the historical buildings