Round table "Historical buildings as an object of law"

Participants:

Head of the Department of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for the Volga Federal District Tarnovsky Vladimir Viktorovich

Deputy of the RF State Duma of the 7th convocation Sidyakin Alexander Gennadievich

Assistant to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan O. Balthusova Olesya Alexandrovna

Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan Persova Svetlana Glebovna

Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan Kudrashev Vladimir Nikolaevich

First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense of the City of Kazan Nigmatullin Rustam Kamilyevich

 Chief architect of Kazan Prokofieva Tatiana Georgievna

Vice-president of the Russian National Committee of ICOMOS, vice-rector for science of the Kazan State Institute of Culture and Arts Valeev Rafael Mirgasimovich

Representatives of municipal formations of the Republic of Tatarstan, ministries, republican and municipal departments, public organizations, expert community.

The meeting discussed the issues of regulation of urban development in historical settlements, preservation of historical buildings.

Despite significant changes in the protection of the legislation over the past few years, unfortunately, there are some gaps in this matter. The absence in the legislative acts regulating relations in town planning and in the field of preservation of cultural heritage objects, deciphering the term "historical development" makes it difficult for state and municipal bodies and public organizations to carry out work on the preservation of objects of this category. To date, under state protection are only objects of cultural heritage, as well as historically valuable town-forming objects within the boundaries of the historical settlement. Thus, the historical buildings that are outside these boundaries are practically not protected from demolition or radical reconstruction. And even with respect to buildings that have the status of historically valuable town-forming facilities, there remain a number of issues that the legislator has not resolved: the criteria for referring to such objects, the procedure for including them in the approved lists and exceptions, the degree of intervention during reconstruction, and the limits of competence of state and municipal bodies.

Having discussed the issues listed, the meeting participants confirmed the relevance of the proposals for amending the legislat