Safety First!

All facilities of the Siberian cultural and educational complex are equipped with multi-stage security systems. At present, internal and external fire extinguishing systems are being installed in buildings of the museum depository (with a restoration centre), Siberian campus of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, work has been completed in the hostel of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.

Equipment of the buildings depends on their category. The facilities of the Siberian cultural complex are provided with all types of fire extinguishing systems that are used in Russia.

The following systems were installed in the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, hostel for students, and museum depository: water systems (105 fire cabinets); gas systems (26 units); powder system (1 unit, it protects the workshop for the restoration of especially valuable exhibits in the museum depository); water mist systems (2,355 sprinklers and drenchers); automatic systems for early fire detection (5 units); systems of smoke ventilation and air overpressure (50 systems); automatic fire alarm and fire warning systems (3). In addition to the internal systems, fire hydrants are provided for on-site water supply networks. Their total number is 6 (1 – at the hostel, 2 – at the museum depository, 3 – at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts).

The museum depository and restoration workshops require a special approach to ensuring the safety and preservation of exhibits.

The project provides for the facility equipment with automatic fire extinguishing units of modular and centralized types, which are designed to automatically detect fire in protected premises, give a signal, and extinguish fire. Modern technologies were used to ensure fire safety: automatic gas fire extinguishing and water mist fire extinguishing units.

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he automatic gas fire extinguishing units will protect the exhibit storage rooms, server room, stockrooms, safe box rooms, and restoration rooms.

At the same time, the project provides for a 100% buffer stock of the fire extinguishing agent used in case of fire in the protected room when the cylinders of modules with the main stock are being charged or for final extinguishing. The service life of the unit is at least 10 years. The electrical part of the fire extinguishing units is made of devices manufactured in the Russian Federation.  

The automatic mist water fire extinguishing unit protects the premises of industrial, technological, administrative, and household purposes (corridors, dining rooms and kitchens, meeting rooms, wardrobe, offices, photo studio, workshops, assembly room, etc.). It is designed as a sprinkler system (spray nozzles or sprinklers are equipped with special locks made of low-melt-point material). They are enabled automatically when the room temperature rises above the set norm and the locks on sprinklers begin to melt. Water is used as a fire extinguishing agent.

Two water pumping stations are located in the basements of the museum depository. They are needed to raise the water pressure in the internal networks of buildings and successfully start the fire extinguishing process.

The museum depository building is also equipped with modern communication networks. The equipment will ensure the operation of secure communication lines for the transfer of classified information. A CCTV system provides the maximum possible overview of the adjacent territory and premises inside the building and makes the operator’s workplace more comfortable.

A combined water and air heating system has been designed for the premises. Electric boilers are used as an autonomous source of heat supply, and electric heaters are installed as part of ventilation units to heat the air in the ventilation systems.

An independent air heating system has been made for the storage rooms on the 2nd floor.

Continuous monitoring of the gas composition in the internal intake and recirculation air is provided for to ensure the high quality of air in the fund’s premises of permanent and temporary exhibit storage. Additional steam humidifiers are installed for optimal humidity. Potable-quality water is supplied to steam humidifiers and adiabatic humidification chambers. An anti-foaming system prevents the penetration of water droplets into the steam, which precludes the formation of an aerosol environment in the air and does not create a favourable environment for the spread of pathogens.

The air conditioning systems serving the museum depository can both heat up and cool down. This ensures the safety and security of the facility, art treasures that will be placed there, as well as comfort for the staff.

Background info:

As part of the construction of the Siberian cultural complex by Stroytransgaz, the following venues will be built in Kemerovo: Opera and Ballet Theatre (a branch of the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre); Museum & Exhibition Centre (a branch of the Russian Museum); Kuzbass Centre of Arts with Cinema and Concert Complex (design by Coop Himmelb(l)au [Austria]); Siberian Campus and Dormitory of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, including the Creative Industries School; Museum depository with a restoration centre; 2 buildings to accommodate educators and artistes.

Already built and commissioned are: Branch of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography with a boarding school; Siberian Branch of the Central Music School – Academy of Performing Arts with a boarding school and a comprehensive school with 2 swimming pools.

The construction of the Kemerovo complex project started in 2019.