http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1928/ Local Residents against Developers and Officials: a Case Study of Protection of Architectural Ensembles of Chesma Palace and Alexandrino Country Estate in Saint Petersburg (Russia) Since 2010-2012, residents of St. Petersburg supported by city-defending activists, experts and politicians have been fighting against construction works carried out in proximity to two protected architectural ensembles of the XVIII century, the Chesma Palace (1774-1777, architect J .I. Felten, 1831- 1836, architect A. E. Schtaubert) and the Aleksandrino Country Estate (1760s, architect J. B. Vallin de la Mothe). These objects are situated within the boundaries of Components №540-034а 'Moskovskaya road (highway)' and №540-034g 'Peterhofskaya Road (Highway)' of the World Heritage Site C540 'Historic Centre of St. Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments', respectively. By means of official addresses to governmental agencies, court actions, civil rallies, pickets etc, local residents together with the authors of these proceedings try to persuade the authorities and developers to drop their plans of building multistorey residence houses in proximity to the mentioned monuments. The construction in progress distorts protected views and panoramas and poses threat to physical safety of monuments. With consent of local officials and arguably via corruption schemes, developers try to undertake projects that contradict the law. A global problem is the reluctance of local officials to follow the requirements of Paragraph 172 of Operational Guidelines for Implementation of World Heritage Convention (hereinafter Operational Guidelines) and their refusal to evaluate constructing projects' impact on the outstanding universal value of the World Heritage Site. Since 1990, when St. Petersburg was recognized as a World Heritage Site, Paragraph 172 of Operational Guidelines has never been observed. The situation has gone so far that in 2016 the Russian President charged the Russian Ministries of Culture and of Foreign Affairs with a task to ensure that the Convention Concerning Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage and Operational Guidelines to be observed in Russia. However, local officials, namely the executive agencies of the Administration of St. Petersburg, stick to ignoring these norms of law. Lavrentyev, Nikolay Chernushev, Vladimir Malysheva, Elena Romanovskaya, Nataliya D02 E09 E11 L04 M04 Local Residents against Developers and Officials: a Case Study of Protection of Architectural Ensembles of Chesma Palace and Alexandrino Country Estate in Saint Petersburg (Russia) 2018-11-16T13:47:14Z Lavrentyev, Nikolay et Chernushev, Vladimir et Malysheva, Elena et Romanovskaya, Nataliya (2018) Local Residents against Developers and Officials: a Case Study of Protection of Architectural Ensembles of Chesma Palace and Alexandrino Country Estate in Saint Petersburg (Russia). In: ICOMOS 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium "Heritage and Democracy", 13-14th December 2017, New Delhi, India. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier] application/pdf