Olga Lyubimova Visits Future Branch of Tretyakov Gallery

Olga Lyubimova, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, visited the Oktyabrsky construction site as part of her working programme. The head of the federal authority was accompanied by Mr. Ilya Barinov, the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Kaliningrad Region, Mr. Andrey Yermak, the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mr. Rinat Shigapov, the Chairman of the National Cultural Heritage Foundation, Mrs. Kamilya Baidildina, the Director of the Kaliningrad Branch of the Tretyakov Gallery, Mr. Dmitry Lebedev, Director General of Stroytransgaz Group and Mr. Dmitry Rzhannikov, Director of STG-Zapad.

The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation inspected the Cultural and Educational Complex under construction under the order of Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation. The Western part of the island will accommodate the branches of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Bolshoi Theatre, the Baltic Higher School of Music and Theatre Arts which is a branch of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts. 

Olga Lyubimova examined the construction progress of the Tretyakov Gallery branch. Mrs. Kamilya Baidildina, the Director of the Kaliningrad Branch of the Tretyakov Gallery, together with Stroytransgaz representatives, Mr. Dmitry Lebedev and Mr. Dmitry Rzhannikov, showed the primary exhibition hall to the Minister of the Russian Federation. The branch will comprise 14 halls with the total area exceeding 4.5 thousand square metres. The ‘floating in the air’ design of the building will be achieved through facade structures and illumination. Currently, finishing operations and hook-up to urban utility networks are underway in the future museum. 

Olga Lyubimova visited the branches of the Central Music School – the Baltic Branch of the Academy of Performing Arts and the branch of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography in Kaliningrad – in the eastern part of the island. The facilities visited also included the apartment buildings for future employees of the Complex facilities and the dormitory of the branch of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.

‘I am very pleased that new cultural centres are being established in our country to educate our talented youth’, says Olga Lyubimova.

All the works on Oktyabrsky Island are executed on a firm schedule by the General Contractor, Stroytransgaz Group. According to general estimates, the Cultural and Educational Complex is 86 % complete.