Valery Gergiev, "We will do everything so that the future stars study in the Primorye MTEC"

Valery Gergiev, Artistic Director and General Director of the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre, Oleg Kozhemyako, Governor of the Primorye Territory, and Natalya Volynskaya, President of the National Cultural Heritage Foundation for Social and Cultural Projects, visited the construction sites of Stroytransgaz Vostok LLC in Vladivostok. Igor Volkunovich, General Director of the Company, arranged a tour of the cultural and educational cluster under construction for the guests, demonstrated the progress STG Vostok employees had achieved in recent months and presented a work schedule that would significantly speed up the delivery of facilities.

The Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre noted that the cultural and educational complex under construction has great potential to become a real "talent factory" in the Far East. "We will do our best even in the face of COVID restrictions. Primorye Territory, despite its geographical isolation from the central part of the country, has rich cultural traditions. The work moves on, there is a very strong leader in the region. We need to do everything so that future stars are taught here," said Valery Gergiev.

Primorye Governor Oleg Kozhemyako was pleased with the pace of works at the construction site on Russky Island and wished STG Vostok employees to achieve the same success at the second construction site. "We need to pick up the pace on Aksakovskaya. For our part, we will support this project in terms of utility connections, issues related to the resettlement of nearby residential buildings and transport links. These are the tasks that we will complete together with the construction workers," indicated the head of the Region.

The guests were satisfied with the results at the construction site; works at many facilities are being completed. There were no complaints about the quality of the production process either; during the construction period, STG Vostok managed to establish itself as a reliable partner that may be entrusted with the most important national projects.

"Our employees, from the Company's managers to ordinary workers, are aware of what kind of project we are building, what it means for Primorye Territory and its residents. The cultural and educational complex will be a new page in the history of the Region, become the cultural centre for the entire Russian Far East and a home for thousands of young talents who dream of devoting their lives to art. With such input, each employee of the Company may not reduce the requirements to the quality of their work and it has a positive effect on the pace of construction. We have committed that children would begin to learn in the educational buildings of the complex on 1 September. I am sure that lean construction principles, which we are now introducing at all STG Vostok sites, will be an important step in achieving this goal," said Igor Volkunovich.

To recap, Stroytransgaz Group builds cultural & educational complexes in Vladivostok and three other Russian cities on behalf of the National Cultural Heritage Foundation for Social and Cultural Projects by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In Vladivostok, a large-scale cultural cluster will be located on two sites.

An educational complex is being built on Russky Island, its total building area is more than 90 thousand square metres. It will combine an educational centre for 550 students with a canteen and a swimming pool, a branch of the Central Music School at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and the Choreographic Academy, a branch of Moscow State Academy of Choreography. Educational buildings and boarding facilities will be interconnected by warm air passages. Also on this site, a dormitory with beds for 150 students is being built, as well as two boarding facilities of educational institutions and three apartment buildings for teachers and artists.

STG-Vostok will build a large-scale museum and theatre centre in Aksakovskaya street. The complex on the Orlinoye Gnezdo Hill will represent a composite architectural project consisting of three buildings, a museum, a concert hall and an educational building. It will house branches of the country's largest museums, the State Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of Oriental Art, the Mariinsky Theatre's stage and a branch of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.

About 1,300 workers and over 60 engineering and technical employees work in two shifts at the Stroytransgaz construction site in Vladivostok, every day 100 to 130 equipment units, including cranes, loaders, excavators, dump trucks, tractors, rollers, are brought to the construction site.

At the construction of all structures, engineers has considered frequent temperature fluctuations, possible tsunamis, and seismic vibrations, which happen from time to time in the region. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the new cultural development centre in Vladivostok will be a spiritual growth centre and one of the cultural oases of Russia.