News from the mayor: Muscovites can ride for free on the new railway ring for a month
How does he meet a new academic year capital? What news await Muscovites when moving around the city? With these questions began today "Business Breakfast" in the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Sergey Semyonovich! It was recently announced that the launch of the Small Ring of the Moscow railway, called the Moscow central ring scheduled for September 10th. Is this the official date? How did you manage to realize such a complex project and adapt the freight railway to passenger traffic? After all, the conversation about this has been going on since 2004, and all the time there were reasons to postpone the conversion again and again. Either the road is not electrified, or there are too many departments involved, which find it difficult to agree among themselves, and so on.
Sergei Sobyanin: The work had to be carried out really difficult, since the highway is 54 km long and with 31 stations crosses many metropolitan streets and radial directions of the railway. Relocation of hundreds of kilometers of railway tracks and communications was required. There are only a few such infrastructure facilities in large metropolitan areas around the world. Europe, for example, last years did nothing of the sort. We assumed that we would be able to launch the ring at the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017, which we repeatedly talked about. The main work fell on the shoulders of Russian Railways, but the Moscow construction complex and all the key departments of the city also got involved. All this time, the government has been actively helping us Russian Federation, Ministry of Transport. And what is important, the issue is under the control of the President of the Russian Federation. Therefore, the deadlines for commissioning the MCC were accelerated. Even the difficulties with financing, understandable at the time of the crisis, did not interfere.
The launch of the MCC will take place in several stages. At the first stage, passenger traffic will begin along the entire ring from at least 24 stations. This is expected to happen on September 10, if all remaining work is carried out strictly in accordance with the requirements. At the second stage - before the end of the year - the remaining 7 stations will be launched. At the third stage - until 2018, the connection of MCC stations with metro stations, radial railway lines and surface urban transport will be gradually improved. At the same time, large transport hubs will be built around the MCC, shopping centers, hotels and other commercial real estate with total area several million square meters. Ultimately, this will give impetus to the development of the entire now depressed territory through which the new highway passes. Here, in the middle zone of the capital, there are now mostly abandoned industrial and communal areas.
What else matters? We will launch the best railway transport in Russia today - Lastochki trains, made on the basis of Siemens technologies, on the MCC. The most modern and comfortable.
Sergei Sobyanin: Yes. Moreover, passengers will travel for the first month on the MCC completely free of charge. Even all day long! Ride, watch what you like, don’t like ... We will accept all the comments and suggestions of citizens all this time and correct the shortcomings as quickly as possible. We made this decision today at a meeting of the Moscow government.
And the day after tomorrow, 100,000 first-graders will come to their first school bell in their lives. Back in 2012, there were 86,000 of them. Are Moscow schools ready to accept all children? Did their parents have difficulty enrolling in first grade?
Sergei Sobyanin: There were no difficulties, since not only all schoolchildren of the capital are provided with places in classes, but also preschool children are provided with kindergartens, although their number has also grown in recent years from 280 thousand to 400 thousand. This is the largest increase ever recent history Moscow. To withstand such an influx of children, to keep educational institutions accessible to everyone, was also not an easy task, but Moscow coped with it. I want to note that 80% of children will go to the school at the place of residence, where their parents have applied. The wishes of those who chose another school are also largely satisfied. In recent years, we have built 250 schools and kindergartens, and we are overhauling and reconstructing a huge number of educational buildings. Therefore, there are no major problems. As well as there is no former artificial shortage, which often arose due to the fact that people simply did not know whether there were places in a particular school or not. And now the procedure for enrolling in a school and kindergarten using an electronic queue is absolutely transparent. You don't even have to go anywhere - sit down at the computer and choose where your child will study.
ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA Lyubov Protsenko Anton Kulbachevsky: The capital will switch to more environmentally friendly fuel together with the country The abundance of water, green areas, in which various animals and birds coexist in the metropolis, are what Muscovites are proud of in their city. Will it be possible to keep them even further? This question started yesterday "Business Breakfast" in the "RG" with the new head of the Department of Nature Management and Protection environment Moscow Anton Kulbachevsky.
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Anton Kulbachevsky: The capital will switch to more environmentally friendly fuel together with the country
The abundance of water, green areas, in which various animals and birds coexist in the conditions of a metropolis, are what Muscovites are proud of in their city. Will it be possible to keep them even further?
This question started yesterday "Business Breakfast" in the "RG" with the new head of the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection of Moscow Anton Kulbachevsky.
Russian newspaper: Anton Olegovich! You are one of the first appointees in the new government of Moscow. Have you already come to the conclusion, what problems in the city are the most acute?
Anton Kulbachevsky: I am a Muscovite, and my last place work - Head of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central federal district. I have known the problems of the capital for a long time. The main one is the condition atmospheric air, which is 90 percent polluted by vehicles. It emits about a million tons of harmful substances per year.
RG: In addition, 300 thousand cars are added annually. Is the air situation getting worse?
Kulbachevsky: Since 2005, there has been a slight, but still trend towards improvement. This is also due to the change in the fleet. Muscovites have begun to buy more environmentally friendly cars, manufacturers are catching up to European standards. In addition, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has declared war on traffic jams. The authorities expect that the speed of traffic in the city will increase and harmful emissions will decrease.
RG: The former city authorities promised that in 2011 the capital would be the first in the country to switch to Euro-4...
Kulbachevsky: The country's oil refining industry is not yet ready to completely switch to the production of Euro-4. In order to stimulate this transition, the state from the summer of 2011 introduces an additional excise tax on Euro-3 gasoline. Its producers from each ton will have to pay the state 500 rubles. As a result, the price of cheaper and lower quality gasoline will be equal to the more expensive Euro-4. This is done so that the production of more environmentally friendly fuel becomes profitable, and in 2012 Moscow, together with the whole country, will switch to Euro-4.
Read the full report from "Business Breakfast" with Anton Kulbachevsky in one of the next issues of "RG"
A little girl of about six, holding her mother's hand, left the Arbatskaya metro station and froze in admiration: "How beautiful!" It was even more interesting to watch the reaction of adults. Taking a step outside from the subway lobby, many of them began to look around in bewilderment. On the faces it was read: "Where am I?"And no wonder: in front of the passengers of the metro, accustomed to the crowd here, now a magnificent square opens up, the main decoration of which is space and a lot of air. And also a fresh emerald lawn, which, as they say, cannot be trampled on, and most importantly, there is no need - a granite passage has been made through it, through which it is convenient to get to the neighboring Vozdvizhenka, and to the underground passage leading to Gogol Boulevard. Nearby are benches already inhabited by lovers, granite tiles underfoot, which on a hot day you begin to especially appreciate: after all, if there were the same asphalt here, it would melt in the sun, and there would be nothing to breathe. It was in such a wonderful place that Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin arranged a meeting for RG correspondents in response to an offer to walk together along the square, where work on the My Street program had just ended. I really wanted to know what the mayor himself thinks about the improvement of Moscow, what other plans he has.
We met at the Khudozhestvenny cinema.
Sergey Semenovich, we suggest you go today by the eleventh route.
Sergei Sobyanin: And what is it?
Well, like what? On my own two. Do you like walking?
Sergei Sobyanin: Agree. This is one of my main pleasures.
Here the conversation had to be interrupted: Sobyanin was recognized. Children, women, men, Muscovites and guests of the capital. In the polyphony of the surrounding people, the refrain sounded:
Thank you for beautiful Moscow!
He walked along the square and everyone who wanted to shook the mayor's hand, wished: "Keep going in the same spirit!" So we got to the tables under white awnings - another innovation of Arbat Square, sat down to drink tea and finally talk.
Sergei Semenovich, few even Muscovites knew that there was such an Arbatskaya square. New Arbat, Old Arbat - yes, the sights of Moscow. And the square - who saw it and where?
Sergei Sobyanin: Indeed, for the last two decades, it can be said that it did not exist. There was only a huge flow of people, sandwiched in a narrow corridor between the fence of the metro station and the shops. Where did they come from? First, one stall once appeared, then the second, then a second floor was built above them ... Samostroy next to the Ministry of Defense. And so it was for years. Not just ugly, but really dangerous for metro passengers and passers-by. Only in February we managed to demolish these buildings. Now there are benches in place of the stalls, people rest there.
It was Vladimir Resin who, when he was still deputy mayor of Moscow for construction, laid the tradition of visiting "business breakfasts" for journalists from Rossiyskaya Gazeta. So we visited with him in the palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in Kolomenskoye, a monument dismantled in the middle of the eighteenth century wooden architecture, and in 2010 recreated according to the surviving drawings.
Then they discussed the problems of preserving the historical heritage in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, built today to replace the blown up one. In the Novodevichy Convent, fortunately, one could see how the restoration of this monument of history and culture, protected by UNESCO, is going on. And so - new meeting. This time - in the Moscow Diocesan House, where State Duma deputy Vladimir Resin met us with Father Vladimir (Vorobiev), the rector of St. Tikhon Orthodox Church located here humanitarian university, to whom, as the owner, our first question was addressed.
Pure sound from time immemorial
Father Vladimir! Why is this building in Likhovy Lane valuable not only for the capital, but also for the country?
Father Vladimir: The diocesan house was built in 1902 by Metropolitan Vladimir Bogoyavlensky as a center of public education. Almost immediately, it turned into one of the most beloved centers of church and cultural life Moscow. What didn't happen here! Every Sunday in the church of St. Vladimir, located right there, there was a service, during which a huge working choir sang - up to 100 people. The society for the fight against drunkenness, the society for public literacy, the missionary society were working ... In a word, the house lived a full-blooded life.
But the house went down in history more than others. Here, in the Cathedral Chamber, adjacent to the Prince Vladimir Church, in 1917 the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, which restored the Patriarchate, met. This decision was made on November 18, 1917 by 600 delegates chosen from all over Russia. By this time, everywhere was already flaring up revolutionary events, there were street battles, the siege of the Kremlin began, the tsarist government was overthrown ... The understanding that it was getting worse and worse put an end to discussions about whether Russia needed the Patriarch again, who by that time had not been there for 200 years. So in the end, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow and All Rus' was elected.
After the revolution, the Diocesan house was taken away, museum collections and church valuables were plundered, the golden dome and the bell tower were demolished ... Photo: From the book "Revival of the Shrine. Moscow Diocesan House"
And soon most of the participants in the cathedral were repressed. Many were shot or tortured, many died in dungeons. 50 of them were later canonized as saints. The diocesan house was taken away, museum collections and church valuables were plundered, the golden dome and the bell tower were demolished... To return the church house, we went through three dozen courts.
And you, Vladimir Iosifovich, when did you first visit the Diocesan House? How did they see him?
Vladimir Resin: It was already 2013. The building was in complete disarray. During the earthquake in Armenia, I headed the working group in Leninakan. I will say: even there some houses were in best condition than this one. But Father Vladimir was here with his great desire to restore unique monument history and culture. The time that has passed since 2004, when the Moscow Diocesan House was transferred to the Church, he did not sit idly by, he already had serious studies to restore the building.
I came to Likhov Lane on behalf of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to see and evaluate how this can be done in as soon as possible. Together with Father Vladimir, we came to a common opinion: the Cathedral Chamber, a monument of history and culture, needs to be restored, and when restoring the entire building, create conditions in which the university can work in accordance with the requirements of the time. Which was done in just two years. The Prince Vladimir Church at the Diocesan House again became the same as it was. The icons for him were painted by the teachers themselves and students of the university, which has its own faculty of church arts. The Cathedral Chamber, separated from the temple by a dense curtain, as before, for the duration of various lectures and conferences, once again delights people with its unique acoustics. It is no coincidence that in Soviet times when the Central Studio was still in the Diocesan House documentaries, it was in this hall that the recording of the best music records took place. Connoisseurs classical music and now they come here with pleasure to concerts.
The facades were restored to their historical appearance. The area of the house due to the adaptation of the basement and the construction of the attic floor has almost doubled - up to 9.5 thousand square meters. Thanks to this, university students received modern, well-equipped classrooms. The builders were able to fit into Historical building even an elevator.
Paying off the debt of the fathers
Vladimir Iosifovich! Just the other day, another church was returned to the Church - St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on Dolgorukovskaya Street. It was occupied by the Soyuzmultfilm studio, which moved. Will this church be restored too?
Vladimir Resin: I don't know the details yet, but most likely yes. A lot of work is being done in Moscow to put churches in order. In 2017 alone, 11 unique religious objects were restored. Work is underway on another 56. The St. John the Baptist stauropegial convent, the Holy Gates and the gallery of the Northern Palace in the center of Moscow, the Church of the Assumption are being restored Holy Mother of God in TiNAO, temple life-giving trinity in Rizhsky Lane in the north of the capital - another wonderful creation of the early twentieth century ... Destroyed their entire state, but by the hands of our fathers and grandfathers. We can only repent for them now. And the Church and the people are restoring these shrines. Restoration work of historical monuments is funded by the state.
In 2015, you and I were in the Novodevichy Convent, were restoration work just beginning there? Do they continue?
Vladimir Resin: Continue. They should end in 2024, when the monastery will be 500 years old. A big date not only for Russian, but also for world history. Taking into account the preparations for it, a decree of the Russian government was issued. It approved the whole range of works that must be performed "to preserve the historical appearance of a particularly valuable object cultural heritage Peoples of the Russian Federation "Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent".
In the Church of the Transfiguration, the last one in Moscow that was blown up in Khrushchev's times - in 1964, which you also restored, probably services are already going on?
Vladimir Resin: Yes, its reconstruction was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War. The temple was restored in its former appearance, fortunately, measured drawings of 1883 and photographs of the 20th century have been preserved. On the eve of the holiday, on May 8, 2015, the temple was consecrated. Since then, it has been open to parishioners, services are going on, and Sunday School for children. I even baptized my great-granddaughter Sophia there. The multimedia museum of the Preobrazhensky Regiment and the Russian army operating at the temple is also interesting.
And at whose expense temples are being restored and built, readers ask. With budget money from Moscow?
The Cathedral Chamber again delights people with its unique acoustics. Photo: From the book "The Revival of the Shrine. The Moscow Diocesan House"
Vladimir Resin: Where historical monuments are identified objects of historical and cultural heritage, state funding is allocated for the restoration of an architectural monument. But if we talk about new construction, then temples are built with public money. There are many who want to help, and the poor give to the temple, and wealthy citizens. The difficulty is how to raise this money. But even it can be overcome when a community, a parish, gathers around an existing or just being laid down church. This is where it starts real life any temple - and the smallest, on the outskirts of the city, and such as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
You participated in its revival in the most direct way. A lot of money was donated to ensure that on the site of the blown up temple, and then the Moscow pool, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior would rise again?
Vladimir Resin: The chief foreman at that gigantic construction site was Patriarch Alexy. Now Patriarch Kirill and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin are at the head of the work on the revival of churches in Moscow. Money is from the people. Donators raised more than a billion dollars for the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The people also donate to all other churches. The people have money - construction is underway, if there is no money - construction is suspended. Fortunately, not for long - people donate about 3 billion rubles a year for the construction of new churches.
People often do not just give some amount, but express their wishes on what exactly they would like to spend it on. For example, a parishioner recently came to one of the churches under construction and said: let's cover it with a copper roof. "It's very expensive," the abbot explains. "Nothing, I'll pay." And there are hundreds of such cases in Moscow.
How much does it cost to build a temple?
Vladimir Resin: We are now building not even temples, but entire temple complexes. With Sunday schools, various administrative offices for the work of the parish, church shops, bakeries and even cafes. Depending on the technical conditions -140-150 million rubles.
Walking to God
Of course, Moscow is a big and rich city. There are already a lot of temples here, and if you need to get there, no problem, the metro will take you there. In Troparevo, for example, there are five churches located not far from each other and one chapel. And you will leave Moscow for 100-200 kilometers and see how desolated the temples are in the same Lipetsk region, for example, or Orlovskaya. But they are even more needed there than in the capital! In the provinces, temples are needed not only to sing the dead or go to consecrate Easter cakes. It is often the only center of culture there. Why shouldn't Moscow arrange a missionary action to revive rural churches?
Vladimir Resin: A wave of construction of new temples is going on not only in Moscow, but also in other regions. I judge this by St. Petersburg, Smolensk, Tomsk, the Moscow region, and others Russian regions and edges. But the fact that it is already good with churches in Moscow is a big delusion. I understood this when a program for the creation of 200 temples began to be developed in the capital. The discovery was that we, it turns out, have areas in which, for 300,000 people, there is not only a single church, but there is also no chapel! Yes, the numbers speak for themselves. If in the country there was one church for 11 thousand parishioners, then in Moscow there was only one for 40 thousand, while before the revolution there was a church for every 1.5 thousand citizens.
Father Vladimir: I confirm: throughout Moscow there are approximately 500 parishes-communities, 33 monasteries, 26 bishops, and about 1,700 clergy. This is with a population of 12.5 million people. And, for example, in Greece, with its 10.5 million population, there are about 8 thousand parishes, about 600 monasteries, 109 bishops and more than 9 thousand clergy. As you can see, the proportion is far from in favor of Moscow.
But now, the situation is changing.
Vladimir Resin: Of course, we have not reached pre-revolutionary indicators, but there is hope that we will reach one church for 25-30 thousand people in terms of security. In the eight years that have passed since 2010, when the 200 Program was adopted, 62 temple complexes have been built in the city - 45 under the program and 17 - in addition to it, 35 more are being built. Why do I say "complexes"? Yes, because now in Moscow not small churches are being built, as someone might think, but churches for at least 500 parishioners. A smaller size is possible only where conditions do not allow building, but even then only with the permission of Patriarch Kirill. Each church has a parish house, a Sunday school, and all the necessary engineering. There is still a lot of work ahead - 231 plots are reserved for the program.
Moscow has launched a program to renovate dilapidated housing stock. In the course of it, the areas of the former five-story buildings will be rebuilt. Temples will be built there too?
Vladimir Resin: Undoubtedly. I always say: what is the difference between a smart man and a fool? He learns from the mistakes of others, and a fool learns from his own. Now Moscow is being built up not in the form of residential areas and industrial zones, but comprehensively, in accordance with the master plan. There will be temples in the renovated areas, of course. They should be there, as a rule, within walking distance. So that people can walk from home in five to ten minutes.
Are they also being built in New Moscow?
Vladimir Resin: In the annexed territories, 6 temples have already been built, 18 sites allocated for this are waiting for their hour to come.
Are all new temples in the capital typical?
Vladimir Resin: There was an idea to apply standard construction to speed up the construction. But then they abandoned it. Each is built mainly according to an individual project, of which not a single temple has yet been repeated.
Temples erase sectarian strife
And what can be said in our time about the attitude of the intelligentsia towards the church? Not only writers, filmmakers, but also architects, builders, artists who are involved in the revival of temples? Is there a stratum of Orthodox intelligentsia appearing in our country?
Father Vladimir: Undoubtedly. There are a lot of intellectuals in our churches now. There are many young people in the parish, graduates of Moscow State University and other metropolitan universities study at our university. This is facilitated by the fact that a vertical has finally been built in theology, both an educational discipline and a scientific one. Now you can get a state diploma in theology, defend a candidate's and doctoral dissertation in theology. We have been fighting for this for 25 years. And now about 50 departments with the teaching of theology have already been opened in public universities. Wherever they open, normal relations with the Church are established. Such a university quickly "turns to face" the Church. Many of its teachers and administrators are gaining faith, some are being baptized, building churches and chapels at their university. Students also begin to relate to religion in a different way. In a word, goes live missionary work. But it is the university that supplies personnel for any province. Trains officials, managers, school teachers... This is the right process that allows our people to return to their historical spiritual and moral roots. It is supported at all levels of government.
The intelligentsia, which is in opposition to the church, is a very small stratum. And I will not hesitate to say directly that it was initiated by the West. Just like it was in late XIX and the beginning of the 20th century, when the revolution was imported to us from abroad.
Vladimir Resin: I will add: it is no coincidence that the first temples from the Program-200 were built for MGIMO, the Academy of the FSB, the temple at Plekhanov University was restored. And at Moscow State University, although there was already a temple, another one is now being built. And it is impossible not to notice that many representatives of our generation - former pioneers, Komsomol members, members of the Communist Party, have now turned from atheists into believers.
Vladimir Iosifovich! But Moscow is still a multi-confessional city. Will not only Orthodox churches be built in it, but also new mosques and synagogues?
Vladimir Resin: I repeat once again: it is not the state that builds any places of worship in our country. They are created by the confessions themselves. In the same way, they collect money, the city holds public hearings, and if the residents do not mind, a temple, a mosque, a synagogue are being built ... In Mitino, for example, the residents opposed the construction of a mosque. We are not at war with our people. So it will be built elsewhere. There is nothing terrible or offensive in this. Do you know who is our first Orthodox church built out of two hundred? Muslim builder Gadzhi Gadzhimusaev. The beautiful temple of Dmitry Donskoy, in the north of the capital, on Polyarnaya Street. Built with my own money from start to finish.
Father Vladimir: The construction of temples and the teaching of theology erases sectarian strife and promotes peace. So it was before the revolution, so it is now.
Moscow does not intend to reduce the pace of construction in 2015. In order for investors to feel more confident in conditions of economic instability, an anti-crisis headquarters has been created in the complex of urban planning policy and construction, which has already taken a number of measures to ensure the work of investors without risk. Konstantin Timofeev, chairman of Moskomstroyinvest, shared details with RG.
Russian newspaper: In 2014, the capital introduced a record number of real estate - 8.8 million square meters. m. Is it really possible to maintain such volumes in 2015, in the conditions of the crisis, which, of course, cannot but affect Moscow?
Konstantin Timofeev: There are no plans to reduce the commissioning of real estate in Moscow, if only because many objects, the commissioning of which is scheduled for 2015, are already in high degree readiness. It is simply unprofitable for investors who finance most of the projects to abandon them. Therefore, they take even expensive loans at 20% and try to finish what they started. And what is investment for Moscow? Of the 8.7 million sq. m introduced in the city in 2014, budget resources only 1.6 million sq. m. All the rest - at the expense of extrabudgetary sources. That is, about 4 investment rubles were invested for each budget ruble. This is what always happens: budgetary construction stimulates investment. The city builds subways and roads with its own money, and the territories attached to the capital, where they come, begin to develop rapidly, housing, new jobs, shopping centers, social and cultural facilities, etc. appear on them. And this year, I'm sure everything will develop in exactly the same way. But in order for investors to feel more confident, the issues of their support, of course, are now in the first place for the Moscow government.
RG: What is really being done for this?
CT: The entire urban planning policy of the Moscow authorities is aimed at an open dialogue with investors. With the development community, we discuss all issues that relate to their activities, from planning urban areas, new development of industrial and communal areas to current changes in legislation, providing support to small and medium-sized businesses, taking into account the current economic situation. The Urban Planning and Land Commission, which considers all issues of the integrated development of Moscow in the capital, gives the green light to investors' projects. Every week she reviews 45-50 projects in total per 1 million sq. m of real estate. Previously approved projects are reviewed without unnecessary delay. For example, now the demand for offices has decreased, and if an investor asks to be allowed, say, to build housing or trade instead of them, we meet him halfway. Behind Lately about 50 such decisions have already been made. Formed now and Single bank offers through which investors can both easily sell a project that is too expensive and buy it or a co-investor.
RG: In Moscow, for two years now, under the mayor of Moscow, there has been an investor club, which includes the heads of the largest construction companies having in their portfolio at least 1 million sq. m projects. Have you received any concrete proposals from him now?
CT: Actually, the entire anti-crisis plan for the construction industry consists of 80% of the proposals of investors. In particular, the Moscow government has already introduced an installment payment for changing the permitted type of use of a land plot, if the first lease payment is up to 100 million rubles. - for a year, up to 500 million rubles. - by three, and if even higher - then for the entire period of construction or reconstruction. We propose to apply exactly the same procedure to the owners of land plots. Previously, they did not have such an installment plan, but made a one-time payment.
RG: Judging by the plans, Moscow is not going to reduce the commissioning of housing, but, on the contrary, intends to even increase it - instead of 4.8 million square meters. m in 2014 to introduce 5.5 million in 2015. Will this also require some additional measures to support investors?
CT: Yes, we are ready to revise a number of town-planning norms concerning, in particular, insolation. The fact is that in Moscow it is not always possible to place a house on the land allotted to the investor, the apartments in which will meet all SanPiNs. Therefore, instead of small one-room apartments, which are in high demand, he has to build houses with large three-room apartments. If the norms are changed, then investors will be in their project documentation simply indicate information on the insolation of each apartment. And then the buyer will simply decide whether he needs an apartment in which the sun shines for three hours a day, as it should be, say, in a "three-ruble note" now, or will an hour be enough for him? Look how many windows in Moscow houses are covered with curtains and blinds for almost a day! So, their owners are quite satisfied with such a life! I will make a reservation right away: Moscow offers such an approach to apartments, and not to all housing in general. And this new requirement does not apply to kindergartens and schools at all - their illumination standards will remain the same.
RG: Investors ask to change the "parking standards". Is the city ready to go for it?
CT: Budget houses in Moscow have been built without parking for several years. And because they significantly increased the cost of building a house, and because the parking lots were mostly empty anyway. Apartments are given free of charge to the poor, who, logically, have nothing to buy a car from. Investors refuse to build parking lots on sites where there is simply no place for them, and with underground parking, the price of an apartment rises sharply again, and then few people can afford it, not only in times of crisis. Permits to build without parking will be negotiated manually by the SLC with investors, based on specific conditions. But in new areas, parking lots have been built and will be built - no one has canceled SNiPs.
RG: Another indulgence for investors is to allow renting houses without fine finishing. It turns out that having bought an apartment, a person must still bring it to mind himself before moving?
CT: This does not concern the city order, according to which housing for those on the waiting list is being built. There, apartments were built completely ready, and are being built. Well, investors used to sell housing in most cases without finishing, as many Muscovites prefer to do it themselves, to their liking. And many, even having bought an already finished apartment, cut down the wallpaper pasted by the builders and begin to paste others. So why spend twice on both?
RG: In Moscow a large number of housing is being built with the involvement of Muscovites themselves. As Moscow has already seen from its own experience, during crises there is always a danger that the number of deceived equity holders will increase, since some developers may turn out to be insolvent, and some may simply be unscrupulous and flee with the money of the townspeople. Is Moscow ready to prevent this?
CT: Of course, we regularly do this. In total, they are built in the capital with the involvement of Money individuals 380 out of 414 investment houses. As tests have shown, most of they are built legally. In 2014, we conducted 162 scheduled inspections, 98 of them were unscheduled at the request of equity holders. For 2015, the city prosecutor's office agreed to conduct 69 scheduled inspections. But even now I can say that we will petition for an increase in their number. During checks, we look at the documentation on the basis of which construction is being carried out, compliance with construction deadlines. We involve the police and tax authorities in their conduct. Our specialists participate in the so-called test purchases to evaluate the contracts and other documents proposed for signing. In particular, during one of these purchases in the village of Govorovo, Novomoskovsk District, it turned out that the developer does not have permits and does not have the right to raise funds from citizens. Nevertheless, preliminary contracts for the purchase of housing were concluded with buyers, which were not provided for by 214-FZ. Two more such cases were revealed in the city - all three developers were brought to administrative responsibility and fined. On two more cases of illegal collection of funds from citizens, criminal cases have already been initiated, and on three cases, the materials have been transferred to the prosecutor's office.
RG: Can you give advice on how to safely invest in housing now?
CT: It is most reliable to buy a ready-made apartment, especially since now they often have good discounts. If you still expect to save money by investing in construction from scratch, then before signing an agreement, look at the Moskomstroyinvest website to see if the developer company you have chosen is included in the list of those working under 214-FZ. You didn't find it on the list? Call the phone" hotline"of our agency, and they'll tell you if it's worth the risk.
RG: And what about Moscow's plans to reorient investors to road and transport construction, after all, several very needed by the city projects? Were there people with money who were interested in building them? For example, the construction of the Northern understudy of Kutuzovsky Prospekt has not been postponed?
CT: The city fulfills its obligations, and preparatory work are underway. I hope that the investor will not change his plans either - the road is paid, in any case it will pay off. The city has also prepared a number of projects for the layout of transport hubs and their technical and economic indicators. Investors are now studying them with great interest. Moscow is very interested in TPU - after all, in 2016, the operation of the reconstructed Small Ring of the Moscow Railway should begin in full, main value which is to give Muscovites an essentially new, only surface, metro line in the city. And for this, passengers should be able to transfer from the subway to the electric train of the MK MZHD without any problems. Investors understand that without the development of road transport infrastructure, their projects may often be called into question. Therefore, they themselves come up with proposals for the construction of roads that lead to their territories, planning to transfer new roads to the city in the future.
RG: Can an investor who is ready to invest money in a construction project in the capital count on the fact that he will not have to break through many barriers, coordinating design permits, which Moscow was famous for several years ago?
CT: There are a lot of finished projects in Moscow. Every week, the city holds auctions, which exhibit ready-made documentation for the construction of offices, shops, social and cultural facilities, sports and recreation centers, hotels ... Come and build. Moreover, all permits in Moscow can now be obtained in in electronic format. So far, this is the only city in Russia that presents the entire package of permits in this way and the second in the world - after Singapore.
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2011 - Appointed as Chairman of the Implementation Committee investment projects in construction and control in the field of shared construction (Moskomstroyinvest).
2013 - Acting State Councilor of the City of Moscow, 1st class.
2013 - Awarded with the Gratitude of the Mayor of Moscow S.S. Sobyanin.
2014 - Awarded by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin with a medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree.
