To save the monuments of culture in regions from destruction, legally banning lead in their place a new building, the proposal was made by the participants in the area “Education and culture as the basis of national identity” forum of the popular front “Forum of actions. Regions” in Yoshkar-Ola. Currently the fate of many of them is very similar: instead of costly restoration – “accidental” fire, and now on the site of the monument grows a new house.
“In the Vologda region since the early 2000s, from 150 wooden architectural monuments, which are the symbols of Vologda, lost 50, and every third object. Were demolished or burned down more than 200 historic wooden buildings. At the same time restored less than 10 houses, but there were more than 230 models-reprints. Such a rate of destruction of the architectural heritage and degradation of the appearance of the city will lead to the complete disappearance of genuine historic buildings less than 10 years”, – said the head of the regional Executive Committee of the popular front in the Vologda region, honorary member of the Academy of arts of Russia Gherman Titov.
So, sad, but typical of the fate of the house on Prechistenskaya embankment in Vologda, better known as the mansion of the merchant Sveshnikov. In 2013, the structure which is the object of cultural heritage of regional value, was offered for sale and passed into private hands. A few months later the building was completely destroyed by fire. For the lost monument of wooden architecture of the punishment in the end, no one suffered – the court found it possible to close the case due to insignificance. Less than a year after the trial – in 2015 – the owner of the burned building had sold the land to the construction organization.
“The problem of the destruction of monuments of culture in municipal and regional ownership, can be solved at the local level. It is sufficient to take regional legislation banning new construction on the site of the destroyed monuments. If the house, with signs of object of a cultural heritage, was sold into private ownership along with the land and destroyed on this site may only be recreational, landscaping (planting trees, etc.)”– said Titov.
A separate topic for discussion was the preservation of buildings that have not been recognized as objects of cultural heritage, but there are long lived people, whose names are significant in Russian culture.
The situation in the Vologda region around the house in Sokol, which is 18 months before his arrest lived the writer Anastasia Tsvetaeva, the younger sister of Marina Tsvetaeva. Thanks to the efforts of the public March 9, 2016 by order of the regional Committee for the protection of cultural heritage was granted the status of cultural heritage site. But the problem is that the house itself this object is not is a plain wooden building, which also is recognized as old. Tenants from moving to new buildings, the house empties, and there is a real danger that it will populate the homeless. They will be sufficient to raise the fire to destroy the house with the “literary”. According to experts, fast action is essential for the conservation of the object, protecting it from outside interference and accelerated the establishment of home-based cultural-educational center with the memorial apartment.
Herman Titov has acted as a moderator of the site “Education and culture as the basis of national identity” inter-regional “Forum actions”. Vologodskaya oblast at the forum presented six more activists of the regional branch of the all-Russian popular front”: Andrej badin, Marina Denisova, Roman Maslov, Alla Klimova, Galina Telegina, Michael Telkov, IA “SeverInform”.
