Construction of Polyany Center for Families with Adopted Children is completed

Stroytransgaz JSC has completed a charitable project in the village of Polyany in Ryazan Region, including the construction of Polyany Center for families with adopted children. The State Construction Supervision Inspectorate has issued a statement of conformity of the facility to the technical regulations and design documentation. The facility is approved for commissioning.

The village of Polyany in Ryazan region was selected as the construction site for the multifunctional centre for a reason. Here, socially important facilities are constructed and developed. In the neighbourhood there is a cottage town for foster families of the “Klyuch” charitable fund for children and vulnerable social groups. The project will play an important role in the prevention of social orphanhood, development of the foster family institution and improvement of the quality of life of such families. The Center will provide professional advice and support to foster families, raise parental competencies and assist in solving difficulties.

In September 2019, Member of the Board of Directors Khasyan Sharifzhanovich Zyabirov and Nikolai Viktorovich Lyubimov, Governor of Ryazan Region, in a solemn ceremony held in the Great Hall of the Government of the Ryazan Region, signed Agreement No. 77-1 on the intention of STG JSC to transfer the Project free of charge after completion of construction.

For the construction of the Center, a 0.8 ha land plot adjacent to Klyuch cottage town for foster families was purchased in the village of Polyany, Ryazan Region. 

In full concordance with the Agreement, Stroytransgaz JSC completed the construction of the Center building (total area: 1,860 sq. m), including a modular gas boiler house and external engineering networks, external landscaping and landscaping of the area.  Based on features of the Center's activities, a unique modern architectural design solution was selected to combine geometric shapes with natural patterns and bright accents. The Center will become a modern public space, a real house of hospitality. Huge windows and a glass roof fill the building with air and sunlight. The compositional consolidating centre of the building is a two-light space with a multi-level amphitheater with multiple game and educational elements and a large screen.

There is an oval reception space, a multi-purpose hall for conferences, concerts and other entertainment events, as well as premises for the family club and extracurricular classes. The Center has a barrier-free environment ready to welcome children with any disabilities. There is a lift for children in wheelchairs allowing to get to the second floor.

On the second floor, there is a space for individual sessions with psychologists, speech therapists and special education teachers, halls for group music, choreography and ballet classes and a maintenance unit. There are also premises for social and psychological support of minors during criminal proceedings. A separate entrance is arranged to access these premises. These are rooms for investigators (a green room with a two-way* mirror) and subsequent rehabilitation of children and their relatives involving an expert psychologist.

* The two-way mirror is called a "spy". It is a semitransparent glass transmitting light only in one direction. It allows for covert observation in the room while remaining invisible to the person looking from the other side of the glass, who, in turn, will see only his/her own reflection.

External improvement and landscaping of the area is worth noting as well. The paving of pedestrian areas is made of hard burnt brick for sidewalks. It perfectly matches the colourways of architectural solutions of the Center. There is a three-level outdoor amphitheater on the square in front of the main entrance, where it is planned to hold open-air ceremonies in the future. Large trees have been planted, lawns have been made, a tiered planting of green spaces (shrubs and perennial plants) is provided.

Ryazan Region will become the first constituent entity of the Russian Federation to open a unique support centers for families and children. Creating the Facility in cooperation with Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation, STG JSC relied on the global experience gained over the past decades. Such Barnahus** (Home for Children) centers were first created in 1998 in Iceland and then spread to other northern countries (Sweden in 2005, Norway in 2007, Greenland in 2011, Denmark in 2013).

** Barnahus was designed to create a specific legal framework to meet special needs of children who are suspected of being abused.

Stroytransgaz JSC will own copyright for the unique project of the Center, which may be implemented in other constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the future.

At the moment, the procedure for the gratuitous transfer of title to the facility to Ryazan Region is finalizing. The center will start its operations this fall.