The Rostov Hippodrome has been recognized as a cultural heritage site. Previously, high-rise buildings were planned for its site.

How to сообщил deputy governor Andrey Fateev, the regional committee for the protection of cultural heritage sites (OKN) added the hippodrome to the list of newly identified cultural heritage sites.

Previously, the company "Neometry" (part of the holding "Elias Group" Boris Yunanov in the Of the Krasnodar Territory) was planning to build new high-rise buildings on 26 hectares of this territory. To do this, the company owner asked that the premises be vacated and the horses removed. He also He pledged build a new hippodrome on the left bank of the Don, but did not do so. 

However, at the end of April, the October Court Krasnodar returned The Rostov Hippodrome became state property, declaring its privatization in 2001 illegal. According to the court's decision, the hippodrome's original owner, a businessman Sergei Kislov took possession of it illegally. He was assisted in this by the then governor of the region. Vladimir ChubThe former head of the region, together with his deputy Ivan Stanislavov They bankrupted the company and then sold it to Kislov for 7,5 million rubles, although it was worth 2 billion rubles.

After the hippodrome receives the status of a cultural heritage site, any construction on its territory is only possible with the approval of the authorities. Governor Yuri Slyusar already saidthat “instead of a residential complex, a hippodrome will remain there.”  

The Prosecutor General's Office assessed the fact that the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites has not yet added the hippodrome to the list of newly identified sites as a violation of the committee's work. 

The Rostov Hippodrome was founded in the late 19th century. Its peak was in the 1980s, when it was also reconstructed. Today, 50 horses of Budyonny, Don, English Thoroughbred, and other breeds train there.