(KZN.RU,
May 11, Alsu Safina). Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, instructed to develop
requirements for objects, located on Bauman Street, and to present a general
concept of its development during the inspection of the central pedestrian
street of the city. The Mayor discussed the integrated development of Bauman
Street together with Andrei Lobov, the head of the Vakhitovsky and Privolzhsky
districts’ administration, Ivan Kuznetsov, the deputy head of the Executive
Committee, Tatiana Prokofieva, the chief architect of Kazan, and Zhanna
Belitskaya, the city's chief artist. The Mayor inspected the objects of
seasonal trade, summer cafes, as well as yards on the street.
According
to Tatiana Prokofieva, the chief architect of Kazan, a comprehensive solution
to the concept of this street should include the placement of seasonal trade
objects, summer cafes, the study of building facades, street paving and many
other features that would make this central city street more comfortable for
Kazan citizens and tourists and contributed to its complete perception. As
Zhanna Belitskaya, the head of the department of urban design of the Department
of Architecture and Urban Planning, it is important to conduct a preliminary
pedestrian-transport analysis at the first stage to determine how pedestrians
will walk and how the objects will be located on the street depending on this.
The Mayor has set the task to develop the concept of the territory before the
World Cup in 2018.
The Mayor
examined the yard behind the McDonald's restaurant, which is not yet
well-maintained and is neglected, and asked the tenant for his plans on this
territory. Ilsur Metshin suggested that the tenant arranges this space.
According to the Mayor, just planting flowers is enough for this.
As Zh.
Belitskaya explained, there are many cozy back alleys and yards on the Bauman
Street that could be made livelier. The territory, which is now empty and is faceless,
could become interesting. But often owners and lessees do not know how to do
this and they do not have enough professional assistance. At the same time, it
does not take a lot of money to revive the yard territory.
Ilsur
Metshin was shown how the area of the yard of the complex “Kazanskoe Podvorie”
is equipped, as a positive example. The hostel is located in the building on
Street Bauman, 68, which became the best hostel in Russia in 2016 according to
the version of the “Russian Hospitality Awards”. Farhat Ibraev, the manager of
the complex “Kazanskoe Podvorie”, told the Mayor about the hostel, walk him
into the cafe, in which there were many visitors at that moment, and also
showed a cozy summer terrace in the yard.
Another
area that could be used more efficiently is the yard at the cafe “Skazka”. It
is quite a large territory, hidden from prying eyes, actually unites the yards
of several buildings at once. Maksim Sharipov, co-founder of the cafe “Skazka”,
said that the territory that belongs to them is mainly used as a parking.
The Mayor
of Kazan noted that this territory could be used more efficiently and
recommended discussing this issue together with the owners. “It's a sin not to
use such territory in the center of the city”, the Mayor said, adding that a
huge tourist flow passes along Baumana Street and the city's residents could
come here because there is a convenient entrance to this territory.
Ilsur
Metshin paid special attention to summer cafes. According to him, the evolution
that has occurred in recent years is evident. Many places have appeared in the
city, where you can leisurely sit with a cup of coffee. “Thank God, it
appeared. Now we see that there are many summer cafes”, noted I. Metshin and
added that it is also necessary to develop regulations for the World Cup-2018,
which would provide the parameters of temporary buildings, their color
solution, and other characteristics.