The destruction of monuments of history and culture

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MOSCOW, March 17 - RIA Novosti. Rosokhrankultura requires prosecutors to take action in connection with the irretrievable loss of RF cultural monuments of federal importance and did not shrink from mandated functions, reports on Tuesday site supervisory authority.

"Every year, the impact of various negative factors, primarily because of the unlawful acts of individuals and organizations, lost about 200 monuments of history and culture of Russia ... Rosokhrankultura not always taken adequate steps with all violations. The question of bringing the guilty to statutory shall not be put "- said in a press release.

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According to the agency, established numerous facts of destruction, damage and destruction of historical and cultural monuments located on land with high investment attractiveness.

"In order to release the sites of cultural heritage sites are committed to arson, illegal demolition, often carried out under the guise of transferring an object in a different place," - says.

Prosecutor General of Russia has made a submission management Rosokhrankultura in connection with the identified violations of the law, said in a press release.

Contrary to the requirements of the Federal Law "On Objects of cultural heritage (monuments of history and culture) of RF nations" do not provide adequate control and supervision over the completeness and quality of the organs of state power of subjects of the RF power transferred to them, notes the prosecutor's office.

"This leads to what is now referred to the authority did not actually executed in 40 regions of Russia. In most regions do not identify bodies of state authority, entrusted with such power," - said in a statement.

This situation contributes to irreversible loss of cultural heritage of federal importance, noted in a press release.

Prosecutors cited the example of a situation in Irkutsk, where JSC RosFinStroyHolding "improperly shifted the two historical and cultural monuments of federal significance, including" House of the civil governor, in which the period of stay in exile, there were many of the Decembrists. " These sites have not yet been restored, the old structure of the buildings actually lost.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, distributed violations of state power bodies and local self-government Land Code in granting land plots, which are monuments of history and culture, for purposes not related to their use and conservation.

In addition, a significant number of historical and cultural monuments of federal significance are operated in violation of fire safety requirements, technical standards and regulations, without a repair and restoration work. In particular, the failure of restoration measures in respect of "Arakcheyev barracks" (eighth century) in the Novgorod region has led to the actual loss of a monument in connection with the natural destruction.

"Many cultural heritage sites do not have passports, approved in accordance with the law of zones of protection, information labels on the prisoners with their owners (users) of security commitments. Approved protection zones have only a 8515 historical and cultural monuments of federal value of 61,395, which impedes the implementation of public safety cultural heritage ", - said the prosecutor's office.

According to the audits throughout business entities conducting construction, repair and other works on the territory of historical and cultural monuments, as well as their protected areas without the consent of the authorities to protect cultural heritage, or violations of security commitments.

"Only in the construction of a road-Alekseevskii Almetjevsk in the Republic of Tatarstan in 2006-2008 killed 11 archeological monuments of federal significance. In the Chechen Republic as a result of the unauthorized extraction of clay JSC Shelkovskiy brick factory in March 2008, the damaged object of cultural heritage of federal significance" Settlement "Mamaevskoe", - informs the agency.

Also in the Leninsky district of Samara builders in early March this year when construction of apartment house illegally demolished the construction site located next to the object of cultural heritage "Bath merchant NI Lebedev. 1912. For all these facts of criminal cases.

"Rosokhrankultura ... improperly implemented license monitoring compliance of licensing conditions and requirements in carrying out restoration work on cultural heritage objects. These violations lead to irretrievable change of historic settlements, damage and loss of historical and cultural monuments," - continued to General Prosecutor's Office .

Oversight agencies raised the question of disciplining those responsible for staff and oversee the elimination of identified violations of the law.