The Marso Polo restaurant, located near the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, may lose its veranda in the Mikhailovsky Garden.
The Committee for the Protection of Monuments (KGIOP) is asking the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region to compel individual entrepreneur Arkady Teplitsky, co-owner of the Adamant holding company (No. 23 in the DP Billionaires Rating – 2025), to dismantle its wooden podium.
The structure is located in the northwestern part of the Mikhailovsky Garden cultural heritage site, which is part of the federal monument “Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III.” The podium houses the Marso Polo restaurant’s summer veranda.
In August of this year, after KGIOP received information about the restaurant’s summer veranda being located within the boundaries of the cultural heritage site, the committee conducted an inspection. The identified violations gave the committee grounds to file a lawsuit in November of this year demanding the dismantling and restoration of the damaged landscaping.
Arina Dovzhenko, Partner and Head of the Real Estate and Construction Practice at Nordic Star Law Offices, comments:
In Russia, the regulation of issues related to the preservation and protection of cultural heritage sites is complex and multi-layered. Legislation regulating the protection of cultural heritage sites prescribes restrictions on economic activity on or near cultural heritage sites, which vary depending on the distance from the cultural heritage site, as well as other circumstances. In this situation, cultural heritage site protection legislation overlaps with St. Petersburg legislation on the protection of green spaces, since we are talking about activities directly on the territory of cultural heritage sites, within the boundaries of public green spaces.
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