Просили распространить: ""На всякий случай размещаю перевод поста на английский (взят из комментов, сокращен - нет статей УК, приведенных в русском тексте).
A bulldozer assault on Okhta
This is no longer a metaphor. What which was awaited for, feared but not believed finally happened - the bulldozers of Gazprom assaulted the ruins of Nyenskans (XVII century) and Landskrona (1300) fortresses. They broke into one of the bastions, leaving a 50 square meters pit where an 1.6 meter ancient earthen wall stood. A hole large enough for an armored regiment to break in. A part of Landskrona moat was destroyed as well.
This is our first unrecoverable loss.
We won't start making guesses whether the barbarians were influenced by the experience of Brezhnev's bulldozer attack on an avantgarde art exhibition (15 September 1974, Moscow), but this time they were acting in best traditions of any scum - under the cover of night.
They began on late evening of 8 October, on a site already explored by archeologists, conserved (covered with earth) and transfered under the responsibility of Gazprom. They continued at morning, when archeologists were back at work. In the wake of a citywide demonstration against "Okhta-center" it was clearly a provocation against both the archeologists of Pyotr Sorokin and the city as a whole.
The archeologists were not provoked and did not complain to the press. They stopped Gazprom vehicles, photographed the destruction and reported the incident to powers that be.
The commission of the city Comittee for state control, usage and preservation of memorials (KGIOP) visited the site but didn't bother to find out who was responsible for the assault. The bureaucrats cited that the incident happened at night as an excuse.
The Moscow commission of Federal Service for overseeing the laws concerning the preservation of cultural heritage (Rosokhrankultura) will begin its investigation on the site in Monday.
For now, the bulldozers are stopped. The only assistance we need is spreading of information. But we need it a lot - this can repeat at any time.
We are not aware whether the Moscow commission will feature criminal investigators, but this act is clearly a violation of articles 243 and 244 of russian criminal law.
Update: the information on bulldozer assault was verified and confirmed by Oleg Ioannisyan (Architectural archaeology sector chief for The State Hermitage, a member of the Council for preservation of cultural heritage of St.Petersburg government, a member of the leadership of St.Petersburg chapter of Russian society for preservation of historical and cultural memorials (VOOPIiK), docent of an academic department of museums and preservation of memorials of St.Petersburg State University).
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Date: 2009-10-17 12:14 am (UTC)""На всякий случай размещаю перевод поста на английский (взят из комментов, сокращен - нет статей УК, приведенных в русском тексте).
A bulldozer assault on Okhta
This is no longer a metaphor. What which was awaited for, feared but not believed finally happened - the bulldozers of Gazprom assaulted the ruins of Nyenskans (XVII century) and Landskrona (1300) fortresses. They broke into one of the bastions, leaving a 50 square meters pit where an 1.6 meter ancient earthen wall stood. A hole large enough for an armored regiment to break in. A part of Landskrona moat was destroyed as well.
This is our first unrecoverable loss.
We won't start making guesses whether the barbarians were influenced by the experience of Brezhnev's bulldozer attack on an avantgarde art exhibition (15 September 1974, Moscow), but this time they were acting in best traditions of any scum - under the cover of night.
They began on late evening of 8 October, on a site already explored by archeologists, conserved (covered with earth) and transfered under the responsibility of Gazprom. They continued at morning, when archeologists were back at work. In the wake of a citywide demonstration against "Okhta-center" it was clearly a provocation against both the archeologists of Pyotr Sorokin and the city as a whole.
The archeologists were not provoked and did not complain to the press. They stopped Gazprom vehicles, photographed the destruction and reported the incident to powers that be.
The commission of the city Comittee for state control, usage and preservation of memorials (KGIOP) visited the site but didn't bother to find out who was responsible for the assault. The bureaucrats cited that the incident happened at night as an excuse.
The Moscow commission of Federal Service for overseeing the laws concerning the preservation of cultural heritage (Rosokhrankultura) will begin its investigation on the site in Monday.
For now, the bulldozers are stopped. The only assistance we need is spreading of information. But we need it a lot - this can repeat at any time.
We are not aware whether the Moscow commission will feature criminal investigators, but this act is clearly a violation of articles 243 and 244 of russian criminal law.
Update: the information on bulldozer assault was verified and confirmed by Oleg Ioannisyan (Architectural archaeology sector chief for The State Hermitage, a member of the Council for preservation of cultural heritage of St.Petersburg government, a member of the leadership of St.Petersburg chapter of Russian society for preservation of historical and cultural memorials (VOOPIiK), docent of an academic department of museums and preservation of memorials of St.Petersburg State University).
Sources:
vveshka.livejournal.com/29348.html
http://karpovka.net/2009/10/16/11772/
Tags:
* "газоскрёб",
* Ниеншанц,
* Санкт-Петербург