Building security zone "Clear Glade" will be banned

Commission management Rosokhrankultura the central federal district, which conducts verification of the legality of the housing development buffer zone Museum "Clear Glade", will give instruction on the prohibition of the construction, told RIA Novosti by telephone deputy head of the Office of CFD Rosokhrankultura Denis Zaitsev.

In the protection zone of the decision of the Head of Administration Shchekino district, Tula region Nikolay Sviridov identified three large plots of land for cottage development.

The museum's director Vladimir Tolstoy believes these actions are illegal, because, despite the fact that the border buffer zone was approved in 1988, in Soviet times - they had not been repealed. At the request of Tolstoy's Culture Minister Alexander Avdeev on Monday sent a letter to Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and the Governor of the Tula region, which asked them to intervene in the housing construction on the museum-preserve "the Clear Glade".

"Sites that local administration handed over the building are protected zone Museum" Clear Glade "and, according to the protection regime, the building where prohibited.

Now being tested, which resulted in the local administration will be issued an instruction to cancellation of the building, "- said Zaitsev, included in management fee Rosokhrankultura the central federal district, which examines the situation on behalf of the Deputy Minister of Culture.

"Testing has completed on August 11, but pre-studied decision, we can say that there will be requirement to cancel orders Shchekino District Administration to grant a lease of land to developers," - said the official.

He explained that the rules of construction, improvement and maintenance of buffer zone Museum prohibit any construction and carrying out activities not related to the preservation of the museum. In particular, they suggest limiting the expansion of settlements.

"Thus, the disorder is not the fact of granting administration to lease land, and then, for what purpose the land will be used. The fact that the land want to build up, contrary to the maintenance of security zones" - said Zaitsev.

Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy's "Clear Glade" was founded in 1921. Clear Glade - the writer's ancestral home, where he spent most of his life.

At this time, memorial landscapes estate (gardens, parks, ponds, forests planted by Tolstoy), as well as the building late XVIII - early XIX centuries, supported by a fixed historical form. In 2008 the museum was awarded a grant of the European Union under the "Support the initiatives of cultural cooperation", intended for the project "The light shines in the darkness" (together with the German Foundation for Schloss Neuhardenberg GmbH). Museum - winner of the project "The Changing Museum in a Changing World" in 2005 and 2008.

Topic: "Clear Glade", RIA, CFD, XVIII, XIX