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Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg
Restoration of the famous Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg is completed a year early
Restoration of the famous Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg is completed a year early
Restoration of the famous Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg is completed a year early
Restoration of the famous Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg is completed a year early
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Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg
The large-scale restoration of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov under the supervision of the Single Customer in the Sphere of Construction PPC is in its final stage. This was reported by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
“The facades of the first higher musical educational institution have already been restored and presented to city residents in the same historical light beige color as when it opened at the end of the 19th century. The building of the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory is a cultural heritage site of federal significance. That is why the return of its historical appearance has become one of the key tasks of the reconstruction. Specialists were able to recreate as much as possible what was built more than 150 years ago. And today, the long-awaited restoration has been completed a year ahead of schedule,” said the Deputy Prime Minister.
The engineering systems have already been fully installed at the site, interior finishing is nearing completion, and builders have already begun commissioning. Currently, more than 2,000 specialists are working in the historic building around the clock to successfully complete all construction, installation, and restoration work by the end of 2024.
Also last year, builders installed translucent domes in the inner courtyards of the conservatory, and today new public spaces have appeared in the country’s music university. Thanks to this solution, the useful area of the building has increased by more than 600 sq. m.
According to the general director of the Unified Customer Production and Construction Company, Karen Oganesyan, specialists restored more than 300 square meters of stucco decoration and 170 square meters of wooden balustrades on the walls and interior vault of the building.
“Highly qualified specialists took and are taking part in this work. It was extremely important that all elements – tiles, stucco, finishing, facades, windows, doors strictly corresponded to the solutions that were initially laid down. Therefore, the most experienced builders and restorers of our country are working on this site,” noted Karen Oganesyan.
Very soon, visitors to Russia’s first music university will be able to see the main staircase in its original light color, the recreated paintings of the House Church, the interiors of the Glazunov Small Hall, the Rubinstein Large Hall, and other rooms.
The main objective of the reconstruction project of the Rubinstein Great Hall was to equip it with modern acoustic and theatrical technologies, as well as to recreate the interiors lost in Soviet times in the Renaissance style. By now, most of the work has already been completed: the frame of the room has been reinforced with 1 thousand tons of metal structures, and for better acoustics, the hall has changed its shape from rectangular to horseshoe-shaped. Finishing and delivery of high-tech equipment are currently being completed.
“The result of the large-scale reconstruction of the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory will be the emergence of one of the largest theater venues in Russia with variable acoustics technologies, where each of the 1.1 thousand spectators at any point will be able to equally well hear the performance of music with electrical amplification or classical music. At the moment, the work has entered the final stage: the installation of 190 tons of mechanical equipment for stage and acoustics control is being completed, and 70 tons of lighting and sound equipment is being installed,” noted Alexey Borodin, General Director of AO Politekhstroy-Svargo.
One of the main challenges for the team of restorers was the House Church. At the end of the 19th century, artists Andrei Ryabushkin and Vasily Belyaev created paintings for the conservatory church based on the paintings of churches built in the 16th–17th centuries. After the October Revolution in the 1920s, these works of art ended up under numerous layers of plaster and wallpaper as a result of church reconstructions.
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