Crimean officials will one of these days decide the fate of the ancient Meller-Zakomelsky estate, which is located on the “golden land” in the center of Yalta - earlier developers, under the pretext of the dilapidation of the historical building, wanted to demolish it, replacing it with a high-rise building, which caused public protests.
“The Ministry of Culture plans to hold a scientific and methodological council on cultural heritage, which will consider the fate of the ancient Meller-Zakomelsky estate on Chekhov Street, 26 (now the Kiev sanatorium)... If there is even the slightest opportunity to save the building, the administration will do everything from depends on her. “Together with the Crimean Republican Branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, all the necessary documents were prepared and, together with an application for inclusion of the estate in the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Objects (historical and cultural monuments) of the peoples of the Russian Federation, they were sent to the Ministry of Culture,” said the mayor of Yalta, Yanina. Pavlenko.
PolitNavigator reported, that the public of Yalta demands to prevent the demolition of another historical building in the city center - the estate of the Meller-Zakomelsky barons on Chekhov Street, built in the second half of the 1880s, known in Soviet times as the Kiev sanatorium.
“The existence of one of Yalta’s historical buildings, which creates the unique appearance of the “Russian Riviera,” is under threat. The current owners, as it turned out, are ready to demolish the unsafe mansion and build a modern high-rise building in its place. The house with a 140-year history, which belonged to one of the 12 Russian baronial families, is not even recognized as a cultural heritage site. Now it will depend only on the city authorities of Yalta and the public of Crimea whether or not this island of Russian cultural identity will exist in modern Yalta,” this is how Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a publication of the Russian government, described the situation.