'Smart home' for Patriarch Kirill: Russia is building a residence worth more than $ 40 million

For the head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Patriarch Kirill, a personal residence is being built at state expense in the city of Pushkin near St. Petersburg, writes “Currently,". The cost of the project is 2,8 billion rubles ($40,482 million), the customer is the Presidential Administration, and the territory of the former courtyard of the employees of the Feodorovsky Sovereign Cathedral on Academichesky Prospekt is being restored as a residence.

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The Patriarch’s press service does not comment on the construction, but the Administrative Office confirmed that the space is intended “for use by the Russian Orthodox Church, including when the Patriarch is there.”

“The complex is intended for the stay of senior government officials, invited guests, including foreign delegations during their visit to St. Petersburg, as well as for visiting parishioners,” the department said.

Fedorov Compound in March 2018 year Photo: Google Earth

According to the publication, the competition to select a contractor was announced in early autumn 2017 and completed at the end of October. The contract was concluded in January 2018; the Geoizol company, founded in 1995 by entrepreneur Elena Lashkova, was chosen as the contractor. She also owns the Pushkin Machine-Building Plant in St. Petersburg.

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Geoizol previously repaired several dozen junctions and roads in St. Petersburg and built a cable-stayed bridge across the Neva. The company also worked at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy in St. Petersburg, restored historical buildings in the Tsarskoe Selo museum-reserve, built the Bureyskaya hydroelectric power station in the Amur region, and worked at the Krasnaya Polyana facilities in Sochi. The company began work in Pushkin in 2019 and plans to complete it in December 2021.

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The Bell emphasizes that the contract was immediately classified: only the customer was indicated on the public procurement website and the cost of the work was 2,8 billion rubles ($ 40,482 million). To get the project and apply for it, the contractors had to send a package of documents about themselves to the Manager of Departments, including a copy of the license of the Federal Security Service of Russia for works related to the state secret.

Initially Feodorovsky town began to build in 1909 year on behalf of the emperor Nicholas II - in the image of the old Russian court. From 1918, the town was under the jurisdiction of the Petrograd Agronomic Institute, and in 1994, the complex was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church. The total area of ​​the plot for the patriarch on the general plan is almost 20 thousand square meters. meters Of these, the building area is 5 thousand square meters. meters, the area of ​​greenery - 6,7 thousand square meters. meters

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According to The Bell, the residence of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church itself will take almost 3,5 thousand square meters. meters The building will consist of two parts - three-storey and two-storey. From one of the windows of the chambers there will be a view of the Theodore Cathedral, from the others - the garden.

The residence will house a church, a living room, a library with a billiard room, the possibility of an elevator device is being considered.

The patriarch’s chambers will be equipped with a “smart home” system, another source told The Bell. He compared the complex to an elite hotel: it will have everything that is usually included in such buildings.

For those accompanying the patriarch, they will equip the living quarters in another house in which the caretakers, janitors, watchmen, and other employees used to live - this is a one-story stone building along the northern wall of the town.

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