"They're committing a crime brazenly and cynically." Playwright Solovyov's house, which a court ordered preserved, was demolished in Kaluga.

A project for a new building to be built on the site of the house where the playwright lived and worked Nikolay Soloviev (co-author of the writer Alexander Ostrovsky), already Goths.
A year ago, the court ordered the owner of the identified cultural heritage site, the House of Playwright N. Ya. Solovyov at 5 Lunacharsky Street carry out emergency response work and save the house from destruction.
On March 1, the head of the department for the protection of cultural heritage sites in the region Evgeny Chudakov failureal The house was included in the register of cultural heritage sites. It was demolished last weekend.

VOOPIiK activist Anna Aleshnikova responded to the event: “At a time of mourning in the country <> a crime is brazenly and cynically committed... At 7 am <> a cultural heritage site is demolished.”
In the fall, the neighboring house No. 3, where the architect once lived, was demolished. Alexander YakovlevShortly before the house was demolished refurbishedtivali Volunteers from the Tom Sawyer Fest project. Both houses belonged to the same owner. According to local media, the buildings were demolished to make way for a new development.
In the photo: Solovyov's House (KP40.RU), ruins of the house (Stepan Volkhov)