Destruction of old Moscow continues

Kadashi Church (1695) has got over its lifetime: in 1812, it looted, set on fire, and then it made a stable Napoleon's troops, one hundred and twenty years have come and made other adversaries have closed the Temple Sports Club sausage factories and KGB archives. Now here again, next to the temple break the historical buildings to make here once a luxury residential complex with underground parking. Whether it will survive the construction of one of the last truly historic churches in Moscow - nobody knows.

And while the destruction of the quarter next to the church, despite the lack of the necessary documents for the demolition continues. Half an hour ago, several workers digging the walls with jackhammers. At the gated entrance to the construction site there were several people from the community activists who are trying to prevent further destruction of the historic quarter. Factory buildings of the XIX century are a sad sight - they are living their last days. Another historical object belonging to the church, a deacon House - almost completely demolished.

"It is amazing that this story every day is repeated in the same form. Even after it became absolutely clear that the actions of the developer is illegal, the authorities do not take any action to stop it, "- says the coordinator of the public movement" Arhnadzor "Natalia Samover.

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