City to upgrade Maly Theatre in 2017

There are plans to build and upgrade three major facilities, including the State Academic Maly Theatre, the Petrovsky Surgery Centre and the Moscow Conservatoire student complex/campus throughout 2017, said Sergei Lyovkin, the head of the Department for Urban Development.

The State Academic Maly Theatre at 1 Teatralny Proyezd is a 19th century architectural landmark. The city moved to upgrade the building and to preserve its traditional image in 2012, and the project is financed from the Federal Targeted Investment Programme.

The Petrovsky Surgery Research Centre’s two buildings and superstructure at 2 Abrikosovsky Pereulok are also being upgraded. A hospital with operating rooms and an outpatient clinic will be opened. The clinic will screen patients and follow through on post-operative rehabilitation. The centre will receive the latest medical and utility equipment.

The Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire’s building for the student complex/campus, now under construction on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, will also open this year. This dormitory for 156 people will be followed by two more dormitory buildings with a total capacity of 900 students. Three rehearsal rooms, a cinema/concert hall for 150 people and a hall of ceremonies for 200 people, a sport centre, a medical unit, a cafeteria for 40, a bi-level car park for 90 vehicles, and another area for 150 bicycles are also planned.

Three ambitious investment projects, including the Oleg Tabakov Theatre, were completed in central Moscow last year, Mr. Lyovkin recalled. The Beijing Gardens deluxe residential building/administrative centre and a hotel/office development at 1/17 Bolshaya Pionerskaya Street also opened last year.