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    Мой район, 3 February 2020
    What will the industrial zones of Moscow become?

    Dmitry Gorbik

    There are more than 200 industrial zones in the capital, they occupy 18.8 thousand hectares, or 17 percent of the city's land within the old borders of Moscow. They are turning from a “rusty belt” into a “gold reserve”, since there is almost nowhere to build, especially in the center. Dmitry Gorbik, Chief Project Engineer of Metropolis, gave a comment to My District about how industrial zones are being developed today and what transformations await them in the future.

    Since the beginning of the 2000s, a construction boom began in Moscow, as a result of which all more or less simple land plots in the capital were sold out and built up with residential and commercial buildings. As a result, finding a place for a new facility in Moscow today is not as easy as it was 20 years ago, which is why the need to redevelop unused and obsolete industrial facilities in the city is becoming increasingly urgent. Their place should be taken either by more modern and environmentally friendly production facilities, or the city needs objects of a different nature - parks, shopping or office complexes, residential buildings.


    Moscow has great industrial potential, industrial territories account for 17% of its area. Realizing the need to renovate the city, the government adopted a city program to reorganize a number of industrial enterprises. It included more than half of the industrial zones of Moscow - about 13 thousand hectares out of 18 thousand hectares occupied by the "rusty belt". Today the program is being actively implemented. Work is underway on the territory of the ZIL, "Hammer and Sickle" factories and other large facilities. From 2011 to 2016 more than 60 site planning projects were approved.


    Industrial land is not the easiest to develop. Often there are contaminated soils on the plots that need to be removed, disposed of and replaced with clean soil. It is also not uncommon for documents to be lost on objects of Soviet or pre-revolutionary construction, which complicates the search and relocation of engineering networks. All these features must be taken into account when working with industrial areas not to get unpleasant surprises when entering the construction site.


    Read the article in "My District".