Kudrin’s daughter will settle Masters in the center of St. Petersburg
The Masters School, led by Polina Bondareva, the daughter of Alexei Kudrin, a top manager at Yandex, will be creating a new public area within the reconstructed Levashovsky bakery in the Petrogradsky district. This will be in collaboration with RBI.
As per the developer, the school will occupy 700 square meters on the first floor of the former Levashovsky bakery on 4 Barochnaya street. The specific terms of the agreement have not been disclosed by the involved parties, but experts estimate that the rent may cost between 500-700 rubles per square meter per month.
Polina Bondareva stated, “The school will utilize both lecture halls and is developing a comprehensive exhibition and concert program. This will include exhibitions, digital art, modern theater performances, and festivals.”
Established in 2015, Masters School is a private arts education initiative offering courses in the history of fine and decorative arts, architecture and design, theater and film, as well as music and literature.
In addition to the school, the building will house a permanent exhibition showcasing the history of the Levashovsky bakery and the besieged memorial created by the Lev Lurie House of Culture team and the Genius Loci urban transformation agency led by Mark Kalinin and Dmitry Simanovsky. The remaining areas (four floors out of six) will be utilized by the office of the RBI group. The total area of the building is 6 thousand square meters.
The RBI Group has invested 1.2 billion rubles into the reconstruction of the Levashovsky bakery building, with approximately 90 million rubles being allocated for establishing a cultural space featuring exhibition areas, lecture venues, and street light installations. Additionally, the developer has constructed 20 thousand square meters of housing on the land adjacent to the plant.
As reported by RBC Petersburg, KGIOP issued a permit to the RBI Group in November of last year for the commissioning of the complex at the former Levashovsky bakery. A new cultural and business space is expected to open to visitors in the first half of 2023.
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Construction of the Levashovsky bakery buildings began in April 1932 based on the design by engineer Georgy Marsakov, who developed a vertical-ring cycle for bread production. The main buildings, a six-story circular production building and a dome-covered boiler room, were completed by the autumn of 1933. Additionally, the Kushelev bakery was also built on Politekhnicheskaya street based on Marsakov's design. During the blockade of Leningrad, the Levashovsky plant continuously produced bread. The enterprise underwent restructuring in 1996 and was recognized as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance in 2012.
