Vladimir Putin held a progress meeting on museum and cultural and educational complexes
12 September 2023
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin kicked off the school year at the new Cultural and Educational Complex on Russky Island in Vladivostok. The President held an extended video conference on the creation of museum and cultural and educational complexes in Sevastopol, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo and Vladivostok.
The meeting was attended by Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture, Governors Mikhail Razvozhayev and Anton Alikhanov, Natalia Pakhomova, Rector of RGISI, Dmitry Lebedev, Stroytransgaz CEO, and builders and students of creative educational institutions.
Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin reported to the President on the execution of the big cultural cluster project in Vladivostok. Four cities were connected at once, and the participants of the meeting reported to the President on the construction progress, its importance, timelines and plans. The meeting focused a lot on the uniqueness of cultural sites. Each of them is, indeed, an architectural masterpiece, whose equivalents are hard to find not only in Russia, but also in the world.
During the video conference Deputy Prime Minister noted that today 29 out of 46 facilities of all four complexes have already been built. For example, last week a branch of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts was opened in Kemerovo. By this year end, the Academy of Choreography in Sevastopol and the Museum Complex in Kaliningrad, which will house the expositions of the Tretyakov Gallery, are to be commissioned.
"We will complete the creation of cultural and educational clusters by the end of 2024. There is a clear construction schedule, and more than 4,000 workers are involved", stressed Marat Khusnullin.
Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, noted the federal scale of the initiative and its important role in uniting creative youth across the nation. "In the near future, residents and guests of this region and 3 other regions, where new museum and theater spaces are being built, will be able to see masterpieces from the collections of leading museums and the best performances staged by the nation's best theater companies. We expect that branch theaters will have more than 800,000 spectators annually. And the educational area of the complexes means about 2300 students and their educators – our staff, who teach and learn, work and will continue to enrich the staff of theaters and museums, and create new cultural projects ", said Olga Lyubimova, Russia’s Minister of Culture.
"We at Stroytransgaz are greatly honored to participate in such world-class project, which is done according to absolutely unusual architectural designs. Each project is unique and individual. All in all, these projects make more than 600,000 square meters, and, of course, such a huge scale requires extraordinary efforts from our company, both technical and labor investment. We make every effort to get it done on time and with the necessary high quality. Contracts have already been signed for many projects, and the equipment is being mobilized, delivered, somewhere it is in the process of engineering completion, and new contracts," reported STG CEO Dmitry Lebedev to President Putin.
The project will create about 5,000 new jobs and an additional 2,300 places for art students.