Last survey of cultural heritage sites in Russia showed that nearly 70% of them are in poor condition, while 10% do in an emergency and for emergency response work on cultural heritage sites need to spend 130 billion rubles. As reported today, May 27, correspondent BakuToday, about this during the Round Table in St. Petersburg, “Efficient use and management of cultural heritage (monuments of history and culture),” said the head of FGUK “Agency for the Management and Use of Historical and Cultural Monuments” Igor Protsenko. Protsenko said that in Russia there are about 25 000 objects of cultural heritage, about half of them – real estate.
One of the most important activities of the Round Table named the completion of the delineation of cultural heritage to those that are federally, and those that are in the regional property and continuing to seek tenants’ facilities.
Transmission of cultural heritage is the tenant through an auction or competition, but often it is served only one application. The problem, according to participants, is the low motivation and commitment to a charge of substantial content of the monument.
Deputy Head of Federal State Cultural Institution “AUIPIK” Valery Diskant suggested that greater use of economic incentives for the tenants of cultural heritage, provide them loans at low interest rates, tax rebates and to compensate for money spent on the restoration of monuments. “While each of the monument appears to us a particular host will be hard to do anything. And it all begins with objects that are in poor condition, because the time for their salvation is strictly limited to”, – said Igor Protsenko.
In the regulatory framework for the management and use of historical and cultural monuments, there are some legal conflicts that require early resolution. On one of these situations have Stanislav Shulzhenko, deputy Territorial Administration, Federal Property Management Agency in St. Petersburg. Shulzhenko noted that “in the various regulations the concept of the most valuable objects of cultural heritage are not identical.” Because of this, for example, in St. Petersburg, a situation where some very important cultural heritage recognized legal entities (Mariinsky Theatre, Pulkovo Observatory, The Mountain Institute, etc.).
Despite the fact that the balance of these organizations have facilities that are not objects of cultural heritage, to privatize them is impossible, because de jure organization all the buildings – it’s historical and cultural monuments.
“The situation can be resolved when all cultural heritage sites will be included in the Unified State Register. Each object will have its own passport, and confusion will arise,” – commented the deputy managing Rosokhrankultura NWFD Maria Surenkova. For further work on improvement of legislation, “the Russian Association of Restorers” and FGUK “AUIPIK” plan to submit proposals made during the roundtable, the Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev.
President “of the Russian Association of Restorers” Artem Novikov offered to make the day Restorer, which is traditionally celebrated in St. Petersburg on July 1, all-Russian festival.
