Amount of financing of “Miras-Heritage” program to make 1.1 bln roubles

Total amount of financing of the republican long-term program “Miras-Heritage” for 2013-2016 that was approved by the RT Government Decree in November will make 1 bln 94 mln roubles. Next year 322,5 mln roubles will be allocated for the program realization. Such information has been presented today by the RT Minister of culture Airat Sibagatullin at a briefing at the RT Cabinet.

Aide to the RT President Olesya Baltusova and Deputy Minister of culture Svetlana Persova participated in the briefing.

The program is aimed at realization of measures on ensuring preservation of the cultural heritage (reconstruction of historical monuments).

A part of funds will be directed to regions in the form of targeted subsidies for co-financing measures aimed at preservation of the cultural property realized by municipalities.

The preliminary list of objects to be restored under the program next year includes seven historical monuments. Five of them are located in Kazan. They are Baratynsky museum, Mikhlyaev-Dryablov’s House, Lev Tolstoy’s House, Galeev Mosque, Lutheran church, medrese in Bogatye Saby settlement and Gubaidi medrese-house in Yutazinsky region.

Aide to the RT President Olesya Baltusova said that the priority measures to be realized in 2013 under the program imply preservation of the oldest objects. She informed that restoration of the historical objects would also be implemented outside the capital. There are now 1.5 thousand historical objects in Tatarstan, one third located in Kazan.

Activity on attracting investors to restoration of the cultural property will also be continued.