Developer plans business centre in Kolpachny Lane and demolition of existing buildings

However softly the developers with a stake in a billion-rouble project may lay the bedding, the bed turns out rather hard. Will you feel better if, instead of an elite residential block, a new Patriarch's Ponds or the Pit so idly invoked by the head of the management company, there appears in Kolpachny Lane, amid old courtyards, between the chambers of the clerk Ukraintsev, the building of the College of Foreign Affairs and Jurgenson's music printing house
a business centre with an underground garage for as many as 53 cars? And what if we are magnanimously allowed to keep the Hyperion bookshop? And what if Artemy Lebedev is to answer for all this beauty (the developer has decided to bring in the heavy artillery)? But the demolition still includes the outbuilding of the chambers of the clerk Ukraintsev, Jurgenson's office building by the architect Velichkin, the secret garden described in Quiet Flows the Don, the playground in the poplar avenue and the very building of the Institute of the International Workers' Movement itself, which is already being slated for inclusion among the classics of Soviet architecture.