Today I decided to look back and add up the results of our work over the past few years.
Since 2022, I have been supporting and administering entries to the national competition for the best projects to create a comfortable urban environment.
Initially, this work was carried out at the Urban Environment Competence Centre of the City of Omsk, and subsequently at the Omsk Region Urban Environment Development Competence Centre. Alongside projects in Omsk Region, we also supported competition entries from the Luhansk region.
An important part of this journey has been our collaboration with the Flotilia design team on competition submissions. We have been working hand in hand for four years.
During this time, I have worked on projects from Omsk Region to Sakhalin and from Irkutsk Region to the Luhansk region.
The results of five years of work:
• 23 winning projects in the national competition for the best projects to create a comfortable urban environment;
• almost RUB 1.9 billion in federal funding secured for public spaces, excluding regional funding.
• 23 winning projects in the national competition for the best projects to create a comfortable urban environment;
• almost RUB 1.9 billion in federal funding secured for public spaces, excluding regional funding.
These include:
• Omsk Region: 11 winning projects;
• Sakhalin and Irkutsk Regions: 9 winning projects, together with Flotilia;
• Luhansk region: 3 winning projects.
• Omsk Region: 11 winning projects;
• Sakhalin and Irkutsk Regions: 9 winning projects, together with Flotilia;
• Luhansk region: 3 winning projects.
Every winning entry represents months of work: meetings with residents, an exploration of local identity, collaboration between design teams, architects, designers, municipalities and experts, and many hours spent preparing competition materials.
The most rewarding part is returning to these places later and seeing ideas that once existed only on paper become real parks, squares, embankments, visitor routes and public spaces full of people.
The work continues.
This year, I was entrusted with supporting entries for eight places:
• Belovo, Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass;
• Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass;
• Myski, Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass;
• Kartaly, Chelyabinsk Region;
• Biysk, Altai Territory;
• Aksakovo, Ulyanovsk Region;
• Khanty-Mansiysk, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra;
• Kreminna, Luhansk region.
• Belovo, Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass;
• Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass;
• Myski, Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass;
• Kartaly, Chelyabinsk Region;
• Biysk, Altai Territory;
• Aksakovo, Ulyanovsk Region;
• Khanty-Mansiysk, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra;
• Kreminna, Luhansk region.
Every place is unique. Some projects focus on tourism potential, others on conserving heritage, and others on creating new public spaces for residents.
Today, submissions to the national competition were completed for every project except Kreminna, where work is continuing.
For most teams, months of preparation, discussion, exploration, approvals, design and documentation are now behind them. The wait for the results begins.
My sincere thanks go to all the municipal teams, architects, designers and colleagues who have shared this journey. I wish every project the chance to represent its town with distinction, and hope to see as many as possible of the places I have worked with this year among the winners.