The developer is seeking an exemption from the cultural heritage protection for a Constructivist-era building in the center of Yekaterinburg.

      The company "Riviera-Invest-Ekb," which purchased a house on Lenin Avenue, 79 in Yekaterinburg, is seeking to exclude the building from the register of cultural heritage sites. This was reported by the EAN agency. An expert assessment commissioned by the developer indicated that the building is allegedly no longer possible to restore.

      The building is a monument of the constructivist era, built in 1933. Once, the chemical technology faculty of the Ural Forest Engineering Institute was located in this building. It has been under state protection since 1986 as a building associated with the activities of the scientist-forest chemist V. N. Kozlov.

      Despite its status as a cultural heritage site, it remained the largest abandoned building on the city's main street for many years, notes EAN. However, last year the house, along with the land plot, was sold at auction by "Dom.rf." During the auction, the price increased more than four times—from 36 to 145 million rubles.

      The fate of the building is to be decided by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, to which the building's owner has submitted a historical and cultural expert assessment. According to it, the house is effectively lost, and the structures have reached a stage of destruction where they could collapse at the start of any work.