TOMSK,
Feb 20 – RIA Tomsk. Director of Heritage Institute, the
head of the Center of State Cultural Policy of the Russian Federation Evgeny
Bakhrevsky visited Tomsk with a lecture about wooden architecture and estimated
the prospects of inclusion of the Tomsk wooden architecture in the list of the
protected objects of UNESCO. Opinion of the expert – in material of RIA Tomsk.
Tomsk is founded in 1604, wooden and stone houses of the 18-19th
centuries remained in the city. The program of preservation of wooden
architecture includes 701 houses, 189 of them are now monuments of federal and
regional importance.
Difficult,
but feasible
"Today there are 1073 objects worldwide in the list of the world
heritage of UNESCO and top five of the list – France, Germany, Italy, Spain and
China – occupy 25% of all list. Russia is on the ninth place", –
Bakhrevsky told at the press conference in the RIA Tomsk media center.
According to him, the Russian objects of wooden architecture were
regularly included in the list of the world heritage in recent years.
"As for Tomsk, the most important requirement of UNESCO is the
unique value (of objects) for all world culture. Undoubtedly, there is a
potential in Tomsk. Especially it concerns wooden architecture. There is a lot
of it, but they are (houses) about one period, it is merchant architecture in
modernist style, it is really rather unique phenomenon", – Bakhrevsky
shared.
He noted that "it is very honorably to be the owner of an object of
the world heritage". According to the expert, it increases tourist appeal
of the region for 20% in average.
"But heavy responsibility is imposed because the act of transfer in
itself – inclusions of the object in lists of the world heritage – means some
rearrangement of sovereignty over this object... It becomes not an object of
the Tomsk region, but of the world. Residents of Tomsk will begin to bear
responsibility to the whole world for its safety, and it is difficult", –
Bakhrevsky emphasized.
Also he reported that it is very difficult to be included in the list of
objects of UNESCO as it is required to prepare a special package of documents
and to pass a number of tests for recognition as an object of world heritage
that "difficult, but it is feasible".
The secret of uniqueness
© РИА Томск. Павел Стефанский
Chairman of the Committee on protection of objects of cultural heritage of the Tomsk region Elena Peretyagina
As the сhairman of the Committee on protection of objects of cultural
heritage of the Tomsk region Elena Peretyagina specified to journalists, Tomsk
is "a unique example of world culture".
"The wooden architecture in many cities is presented only by
national architecture, generally it is the repeating examples of houses. And
the wooden architecture in Tomsk is presented by a large number of a carving
which is various both on the equipment, and on technical characteristics",
– she explained.
According to her, the famous architects building the universities and
other important objects of the country worked in Tomsk.
"It is much presented by styles: modernist style, style classicism
and many others. Such houses form special style complexes. The value of wooden
architecture represents a submission element with a landscape which forms
unique parts of the urban environment", – Peretyagina noted.