Long-suffering. Yaroslavl heritage conservationists demanded that a historic building, which is being set on fire and resold, be saved.
The cultural heritage site "House for employees of the Norsk cotton spinning manufactory" of 1902 in the village of Norskoye It's rapidly deteriorating. A fire broke out in early February, prompting preservationists to demand that the building be repossessed.
"The building suffered significant damage. This long-suffering, beautiful landmark building has been roofless for 10 years and is crumbling. After the fire was extinguished, part of the main façade was frozen over in an apocalyptic manner. Access to the site is free."- said Olga, The urban conservationist posted on her VKontakte page Olga Mazanova.
Until 2015, the building was occupied and maintained in decent condition. After the residents were resettled, they began dismantling it for its boards, but activists prevented this. Heritage conservationists tried various methods to preserve the building: Elena Bogdanova paid for the operation of a surveillance camera at the site, and people raised money for its restoration. Two years ago, the mayor's office sold the monument. To Denis Voronin — an entrepreneur who demolishes buildings. He hasn't taken any steps to restore the house because "some kind of project needs to be drawn up." He claims to have already resold the historic building.
Local historian Semyon Taraev Demanded that the regional State Service for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites take measures to preserve the monument and seize it from its owner. As it turns out, the agency is only planning to contact the police to investigate the fire.
Fires at historical sites have gone from being emergencies to commonplace occurrences. in Kazan within a month burned down three historic houses. In the summer Ryazan burned The house of engineer Bankovsky is one of the most striking examples of wooden architecture. Several times before, burned Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's house. Three times it was burning a historical building that is part of the Starozhilovsky stud farm complex, built by von Derviz.
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