Project of the satellite city “Yuzhny. Satellite city Yuzhny: the first quarter went to Yuzhny Satellite

Satellite City "Yuzhny" is a large-scale development project for a site in the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg. The complex is located on both sides of the Kyiv highway. An entire city with its own infrastructure and utilities will be built on an area of ​​more than 2 thousand hectares.

Project Description

"Start Development" intends to sell about 4.3 million sq.m. in the residential complex. living space, which can provide housing for 134 thousand people. Well-known architectural studios - Urban Design Associates and Gillespies - took part in the design of the houses. A period of 14 years has been allotted for the development of the area (completion in 2028).

The territory of the Yuzhny residential complex is divided into 3 zones:

• the northern part is made up of individual-type cottage houses and mid-rise buildings. The quarter will have access to the Kyiv highway and the railway. There is a retail park nearby.
• The central part is the commercial zone of the city with restaurants, offices and shops. A square with a park and a lake will be built in the center. There will also be entertainment pavilions, and residential development will be adjacent to the park.
• southern - various types of housing with administrative buildings, schools, kindergartens, sports complexes, medical institutions, etc. The central street of the microdistrict will be Gatchina Highway. The road will be landscaped with sidewalks and a boulevard with green spaces.

Satellite city "Yuzhny" is a project of the START Development company, implemented in the southern part of St. Petersburg, on the border of the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

Satellite city "Yuzhny" will be built on an area of ​​about 2 thousand hectares located in the southern part of St. Petersburg.

"Yuzhny" is one of the largest investment housing construction projects in Russia. About 4.3 million square meters will be built here. m of housing.

Housing construction will be accompanied by large-scale development of public services and engineering infrastructure.

The total investment volume will be 176 billion rubles.

The future satellite city is located in the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg on both sides of the M20 federal highway (Kyiv highway).

The project is based on the principles of “green development”, which involve creating favorable conditions for people’s life, leisure and work with minimal impact on nature.

A single, environmentally friendly space, soft undulating terrain, extensive parks and open spaces, a street network complemented by parks and green stripes will create a comfortable place for life and recreation for residents of the satellite city.

What is a satellite city?

A satellite city is usually understood as a settlement located near another metropolis.

According to the logic of the name, satellites are a single whole with the object that they “accompany”, they are located within its administrative boundaries, but at the same time they can exist independently of it.

The formation of satellite cities is an almost inevitable future for any large city, which will sooner or later run out of land for residential development and territories on which new production facilities could be located for the further development of the city economy. In the case of the Yuzhny project, the initial plan arose based on these factors.

The development of the southern territories of St. Petersburg was included in the “Start Development” strategy, since it is here that it is possible to create the main product for the company - the development of land for comfortable and affordable housing.

In 2009, based on the results of market monitoring, a plot suitable for these purposes was acquired - a large area (2012 hectares), without encumbrances, without the need to destroy or wash anything, near St. Petersburg, on the road to Moscow and close to developing industrial sites.

Now the investor is going through one of the important stages of implementing the plan - public hearings on changes to the General Development Plan of the city, as a result of which adjustments will be made to this document and the “portrait” of the satellite city will become finally clear.

We will tell you in more detail about what satellite cities are, who will build roads and utility networks on a vast territory and with what money, as well as what is the opinion of experts - real estate specialists, urbanists - about the prospects of this plan, what they see as its advantages and potential pain points.



« Southern" in numbers:

Land area - 2012 hectares

Housing area - 4.9 million square meters. m

area of ​​commercial and industrial real estate - 1.5 million square meters.

number of inhabitants - 134 thousand people

number of jobs - about 21 thousand.

The volume of investments is 176 billion rubles.

Implementation period - 19 years

About the project of the satellite city "Yuzhny"

Companies from the USA (Urban Design Associates) and Scotland (Gillespies) were involved in the execution of the project.

Project implementation period: 2010 - 2028. Work will begin in 2014. Today, more thorough preparation of the project, work to coordinate the project, and research work are underway.

According to the project plans, at least 300 thousand square meters will be commissioned annually. m. of area.

The Yuzhny satellite city project includes:

• residential buildings
• preschool institutions (at least 60)
• general educational institutions (at least 30)
• medical centers for the whole family (at least 10);
• sport complexes
• shopping and entertainment complexes

The number of social and commercial infrastructure is very approximate, because According to START Development plans, the satellite city will be constantly completed and developed.

The number of houses has also not yet been approved. But it is already known that this will not be a multi-storey development of the territory.

Mainly low-rise (no more than 3-4 floors) houses will be built, as well as cottages, duplexes and townhouses.

Transport accessibility of Yuzhny

The population of the satellite city is expected to be at least 170 thousand people.

The development company will do everything in its power to ensure that the residents of Yuzhny are provided with everything within this territory.

Although the development is being carried out between two federal highways M10 and M20, and the road to the Ring Road will take no more than 10 minutes, the existing transport routes will not be able to cope with the new flow of cars.

Without traffic jams, the journey to St. Petersburg will take less than an hour.

The only way out is to develop transport networks along with the development of the area.

Social orientation of the project

It is expected that this area will provide high-quality and comfortable housing to the middle class. The cost per square meter will be from 40 thousand rubles. The price limit remains at 60 thousand rubles for now. per square meter.

Do not forget that the housing area in low-rise buildings is larger than in multi-apartment high-rise buildings. Therefore, the final price will be at the level of ordinary apartments in new buildings in St. Petersburg.

Who will build the satellite city “Yuzhny”?

The general developer of the territory will be the owner of the land - the management company "Start Development" .

Having sufficient experience in the real estate sector, in this project the company will be responsible for preparing the concept of the satellite city, coordinating it with the authorities (including amendments to the General Plan), and developing infrastructure.

Other development companies will directly conduct development on the territory - they will receive already prepared engineering land plots for the implementation of their projects under a single concept, but it is possible that up to 30% of the total area will be developed by Start Development independently.

Information about the developer:

Start Development Management Company has been operating in the real estate market since 2007.

The project portfolio includes the low-rise Golden Keys district, plots for summer cottage construction in the Tayberry project, land plots in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region and the Pushkinsky district of the city for housing construction, the Doni-Verevo industrial park project and other commercial real estate objects.

The total volume of the company's land bank is more than 40 million square meters. m.

Where does Yuzhny have water, electricity and roads?

In accordance with the agreement that Start Development signed with the administration of St. Petersburg in June last year, issues of providing the territory with infrastructure will be resolved jointly.

The investor will be responsible for the creation of water supply, sewerage, heat and electricity networks, as well as streets and roads of local importance, and the city will cost the main citywide and regional roads and social infrastructure facilities.

In Yuzhny it is planned to build 37 kindergartens, 16 schools, 21 sports and leisure centers, 9 medical centers).

The total cost of infrastructure is estimated at approximately 30 billion rubles. For example, it is planned to expand the Kievskoye highway and repair the Starogatchina highway.

One of the issues related to water supply and sewerage has been resolved by Start Development. In August 2011, Start Development became the owner of 75% minus 1 share of the Leningrad Regional Utility Systems (LOKS) company and in just over a year carried out work to restructure the company and bring it out of the crisis.

Now, having prepared the contractual basis for Yuzhny, the developer has put LOX up for auction in order to find a specialized company that will continue to operate the networks.

It is possible that a number of projects for the construction of infrastructure facilities will be solved in Yuzhny on the basis of public-private partnership.

The reconstruction of the M-20 highway in the section from the road to Pushkin to the Don, as well as the M-10 highway in the section from the Ring Road to the village, has been completed. Yam-Izhora within the administrative boundaries of the city

A promising highway is the planned ring highway KAD-2.

It is planned to build a latitudinal highway in the direction Volkhonskoe Highway - Petrozavodskoe Highway, as well as the first stage of construction of the extension of Vitebsky Avenue.

The General Plan of St. Petersburg provides for the construction of a light rail line from the station. metro station "Zvezdnaya" along Pulkovskoye and Kievskoye highways to the satellite city "Yuzhny".

Is low-rise or multi-storey development planned for Yuzhny?

Cottage, low-rise and mid-rise buildings are planned for the project area.

In the central part of the site there will mainly be buildings up to 30 meters high, in the outer zone - up to 15 meters.

The developer will offer construction companies different options for plots: from 10 hectares, which may be of interest to large construction companies, to 1-5 hectares for medium and small developers.

Who will live and work in Yuzhny?

On the territory of Yuzhny, 126 hectares are provided for the location of production facilities.

About the same amount is located on the territory of the Leningrad region, adjacent to Yuzhny from the village of Doni.

Several large telecommunications and radio electronics companies, as well as automakers, are considering the possibility of locating their facilities in Yuzhny.

The main thing that should attract production to a satellite is the presence of prepared sites in a good location (close to the airport, main highways, port). Potential home buyers in Yuzhny will include residents of St. Petersburg who want to improve their living conditions, as well as buyers from the regions.

The government of St. Petersburg has created a working group to attract industrial enterprises to the South.

Negotiations are underway with RosNano about the creation of Nanograd.

Expert opinions

Director of the Urbanika Institute of Territorial Planning Anton Finogenov:

The main risk for the project is the state’s failure to fulfill its infrastructure obligations





What conditions are important to take into account in order for the Yuzhny satellite city project to be implemented successfully?



In my opinion, the project developer realizes that for the successful implementation of the Yuzhny satellite city, he will need to turn the existing restrictions on the construction of the city into opportunities for its dynamic development.

Firstly, there are currently few points of attraction in the project area - there are practically no places of employment, no large settlements.

The developer is preparing to create such attractors independently - not only through the developing Doni-Verevo industrial zone, but also through the targeted invitation of a number of large innovative companies to the territory.

Secondly, the development of Yuzhny will have to set a new territorial trend for large-scale development in the St. Petersburg agglomeration, since the project is located to the south of the already existing mass construction zones.

Thirdly, the engineering infrastructure in the territory is, of course, insufficiently developed, and the developer will have to solve many issues from scratch - laying networks, roads, while simultaneously providing not only his own needs, but also the needs of neighboring towns and villages.

Certainly. Thus, some distance from the ring road creates a more favorable environmental situation.

The presence of a railway line and two stations on the project territory already makes it possible to get to the center of St. Petersburg - the Baltic Station - in less than 30 minutes.

In addition, about 800 thousand people live within 15-20 km from Yuzhny - and it is they who can create the primary demand for housing and become users of all those objects of attraction that will be created in Yuzhny.

Accordingly, in order for the advantages to “play out”, it is necessary to competently deal with the existing disadvantages and, not in words, but in deeds, create places of employment, a high-quality living environment, public service facilities, and public transport.

What are the main risks for the implementation of the project?

The main risk for the project's implementation may be the same factor that has turned many other satellite city projects into just more areas of mass residential development - the state's failure to fulfill its obligations to create basic transport and engineering infrastructure.

Nowhere in the world are there successful projects of not only mass, but also high-quality residential construction, where the developer will solve absolutely all the issues independently.

Director of the Center for Applied Research of the European University in St. Petersburg, researcher at the Center for Independent Sociological Research, sociologist and urbanist Oleg Pachenkov:

The experience of unsuccessful projects of satellite cities in Russia and abroad will help to avoid similar mistakes



What do you see as the main dangers when implementing such a large project?



It is important to understand that the project will be implemented in the long term. The lack of successful experience of similar projects (satellite cities) in Russia is, yes, potentially a problem.

On the other hand, the experience of unsuccessful or relatively successful projects with us allows us to understand what mistakes should not be made and what we should strive for. The experience of such projects implemented abroad will also help - also with varying degrees of success.

I see the main dangers for the project as follows. For example, if the state promises support and abandons the project.

We see analogues in other projects in Russia and even in St. Petersburg, for example, unfulfilled promises on transport infrastructure greatly let down the satellite city “Academic” in Yekaterinburg and the “Baltic Pearl” project in St. Petersburg, reducing their quality and creating problems for investors.

It is also dangerous if the concept of a satellite city is left to chance and is not respected during implementation - before the project begins to function and reproduce itself.

The danger also lies in the situation if any of the key aspects of the development and growth of the satellite city (employment, infrastructure and environment) are sacrificed and implemented in poor quality.

As the experience of satellite city projects in Russia and in the world shows, this will lead to the degradation of other aspects and gradually the entire project as a whole: low-quality employment will have a bad impact on the environment, poor urban environment or infrastructure, including transport, will push away potential high-quality workers and prestigious jobs, will not allow the city to be actively populated, which will lead to its financial failure, and so on.

It is extremely important that the project of the satellite city is focused on the needs and potential of St. Petersburg and the agglomeration, on their concept and strategy - and in fact there are none. And if they are not created, if the city itself does not clearly fix its priorities, then the authors of the satellite city will not be blamed for the fact that the satellite city does not work for the development of areas that are strategically important for the city...

Head of the project direction of the Foundation "Center for Strategic Research "North-West" Dmitry Sanatov:

The main thing is that the developer’s plans are implemented in strict accordance with the existing concept



What is the main problem that a developer might encounter when implementing a project on such a large territory?



The main problem that the project may encounter is the quality of implementation of the plans.

The fact is that the project has been developed with dignity in its conceptual part. There are solutions to possible transport problems, an industrial park project is being implemented in which residents of Yuzhny will be able to work, solutions have been announced in the field of green and energy-efficient technologies, and much more.

But we must understand that the implementation of many of these solutions is beyond the competence of the developer company.

Much depends on the policies of city authorities. Probably, for successful implementation, the company will have to solve complex issues of finding effective contractors and organizing control over their activities.

It will be necessary to keep the project within the outline of the initially stated goals, even if market conditions change. There are substantive questions about the innovations of the Yuzhny project themselves.

For example, the Doni-Verevo industrial park located nearby - what level of wages can be offered there so that residents of the area can pay for housing using “green technologies”?

Or light rail transport - will there be funds in the city budget for this project? The announced construction of Ring Road-2, which should be a serious help in solving the city’s probable transport problems - will it be implemented by 2025, when Yuzhny reaches full capacity?

Is there a roadmap for introducing social facilities or will the full set of declared social facilities be created only by 2025?

The strength of the project is the financial security of the developer company, and also, despite all the criticism, it is a good attempt to implement the project comprehensively in the full sense of the word.

For example, there is a job creation solution that comes before housing construction. It is important that the project does not grow spontaneously and does not contribute to the sprawl of the city.

So that long-outdated Soviet standard layouts and monotonous architectural solutions are not reproduced, turning life in other construction complexes in St. Petersburg into a dull existence.

The dullness and monotony of complex projects can not so much scare off future residents (given a housing shortage, demand will certainly be high), but rather set a trend for the emergence of a number of social problems in the future, which all large-scale construction projects face. It is important that this does not happen.

The Yuzhny satellite city project in 2013

October 15, 2013 The developers of the concept of the satellite city "Yuzhny" took the initiative to create A public expert council to support the project throughout the entire development period of the territory, designed for 19 years.

The first meeting of the council was chaired by the General Director of the State Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky.

The result is a resolution in support of the Yuzhny satellite city project, sent to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

The Public Expert Council included representatives of scientific, cultural, public organizations and the Russian Orthodox Church, business associations, architects, developers, political scientists, as well as representatives of the administration of St. Petersburg and Pushkin. Each of them, during the council’s activities, will be able to make comments and suggestions on the development of the satellite city “Yuzhny”.

“We want to implement one of the most ambitious urban development projects in the country,” noted Zakhar Smushkin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of START Development Management Company.

The creation of a new district in the south of St. Petersburg, in addition to engineering and economic calculations, will require the adoption of non-standard decisions related to the cultural, educational and spiritual life of the city.

We believe that the Public Expert Council will become not only a guarantor of making the right decisions, but also a platform that will help balance the interests of the city, the legislative branch, society and business.

Our Council included the heads of the Tsarskoe Selo and Pavlovsk museum-reserves, as well as representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and leading universities of the city.

Their opinion will play an important role in discussing issues of maintaining environmental balance and preserving historical heritage.

We have chosen a responsible public engagement approach for this project and would like to recommend that the government of St. Petersburg take into account the recommendations of the Council, in particular, on our project, and also consider the possibility of introducing the practice of Public Councils in general.”

The very first meeting of the Public Expert Council became a platform for proposing new ideas for Yuzhny.

Advisor to the Governor of St. Petersburg Vyacheslav Semenenko urged the developer to take a creative approach to the issue of placing social facilities on the territory of the satellite city.

“Modern innovative enterprises should be located in Yuzhny, which will attract residents of the appropriate level. This is a European practice; our neighbors, the Finns, also have training centers and high-tech production facilities on the outskirts.

But for the residents and workers of Yuzhny it will be necessary to create an appropriate urban environment. For example, build schools using non-standard designs, which can significantly affect the level of knowledge acquired there,” he said.

Representative of the Guild of Managers and Developers Boris Yushenkov proposed that in each microdistrict of the satellite city a small plot should be left, the fate of which its residents could control, as is sometimes done in Western urban planning practice.

Director of the Research Center for the General Plan of St. Petersburg Yuri Bakei stated that projects such as “Yuzhny” help the city authorities implement the global task of increasing the standard of housing for St. Petersburg residents.

“This norm can get closer to European indicators - 35 sq.m per person - only through the development of new territories.

Another thing is that for now it is possible to allow the construction of a self-sufficient city only in this project. But what is especially important is that the project reflects the development prospects of neighboring territories and is unique for St. Petersburg in terms of density and height of development.

We included in the project indicators according to new regional standards, more stringent than those in force today. As a result, the building density of Yuzhny is 2.5 times lower than in the existing residential areas of the city,” he said.

For the first time in St. Petersburg, a project is planned, in which, at the initial stage, the construction of everything necessary is planned - jobs, schools, kindergartens, clinics, etc.

Head of the Pushkinsky District Administration Nikolai Bondarenko noted:

“Yuzhny has no analogues in terms of green space - 25% of its territory is given over to green areas and recreation. But the main thing that captivates is that the investor openly discusses the problems existing in the area and is ready to provide real support in solving them.”

First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of the Government of St. Petersburg Yuri Mityurev:

“The project of the satellite city “Yuzhny” initially included a balance between who will live there and who will work there. The developer has already done a colossal amount of work regarding functional zoning, security obligations, high-rise construction, infrastructure development, etc.

In order for this work to be completed, it is necessary to develop a project for the planning of the territory, which should reflect in its content the function that will dominate in this place,” he concluded.

Director of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Olga Taratynova raised the issue of reconstruction during the construction of the “Southern” Taitsky water pipeline, which historically fed ponds and supplied water to the population of Tsarskoe Selo.

Chairman of the Public Expert Council of the satellite city "Yuzhny" Mikhail Piotrovsky noted that the issue of full and partial reconstruction of the Taitsky water pipeline will be discussed during the next meetings of the council.

“I really like this project. This is an interesting urban planning initiative that could be a serious step towards solving the problems of compact development, overcrowding in the historical part of St. Petersburg and the development of industry outside the city.

A truly comprehensive approach to the development of the territory is presented for consideration, taking into account modern views on demography, urbanism and sociology.

I am also pleased that the developers are sincerely interested in the public success of Yuzhny.

The practice of creating a Public Expert Council is unique and very important for the city.

We realized that we were interested and that we were ready to continue working with this project. Discussions will continue in the World Club of St. Petersburgers, of which I am the chairman, and in the European University, and in the Union of Architects in order to comply with modern global standards, while at the same time preserving the uniqueness and originality of the most European city in Russia.”

In conclusion, members of the Public Expert Council signed a resolution in support of the Yuzhny satellite city project and the draft law “On Amendments and Amendments to the Law of St. Petersburg “On the Master Plan of St. Petersburg,” which will be sent to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

Mikhail Piotrovsky, Chairman of the Public Expert Council, General Director of the Federal State Cultural Institution “State Hermitage”;

Yuri Bakei, Director of the St. Petersburg State Government Institution “Research and Design Center for the Master Plan of St. Petersburg”;

Nikolay Bondarenko, Head of the Administration of the Pushkinsky District of St. Petersburg;

Vadim Larionov, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg;

Olga Taratynova, Director of the State Museum-Reserve “Tsarskoye Selo”;

Vera Dementieva, Director of the State Museum-Reserve "Pavlovsk";

Vladimir Vasiliev, Rector of the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics;

Dmitry Gavra, Head of Department, St. Petersburg State University, Professor, Doctor of Sociological Sciences;

Mikhail Osipov, Vice-Rector for Development of the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance;

Andrey Rudskoy, Rector of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University;

Evgeniy Podgorno c, head of the architectural workshop "Intercolumnium";

Boris Yushenkov, independent expert, representative of the Guild of Managers and Developers;

Gennady Zverev, rector of the St. Sophia Church of Tsarskoye Selo;

Dmitry Sinochkin, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Prigorod”, chief editor of the weekly “Real Estate and Construction of St. Petersburg”;

Igor Sklyar, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

The following also took part in the discussion of the project:

Yuri Mityurev, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of the Administration of St. Petersburg:

Vyacheslav Semenenko, Advisor to the Governor of St. Petersburg

Anton Finogenov, head of the Urbanika Institute

Zakhar Smushkin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Management Company "START Development"

Andrey Nazarov, General Director of Management Company "START Development".

Reference

year 2009 - acquisition by Start Development of a land plot for the Yuzhny project



April 7, 2011 - the Yuzhny project received the status of a strategic project of St. Petersburg


February 7, 2012- the Yuzhny project was included in the list of priority investment projects approved by the Russian government

July 25, 2012- an agreement was signed between “Start Development” and the administration of St. Petersburg on the implementation of the strategic investment project for the creation of the satellite city “Yuzhny”



October 18, 2012- the commission on amendments to the General Development Plan of St. Petersburg approved proposals to make adjustments to the document in connection with the implementation of the Yuzhny satellite city project and recommended them for submission to public hearings

March 28 - April 2, 2013 - Public hearings were held in all districts of St. Petersburg on amendments to the General Plan of St. Petersburg related to the implementation of the Yuzhny satellite city project



June 26, 2013 - The first hearings were held in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. Deputies passed the bill in the first reading. There is time until October 7 to make amendments. Consideration of the bill at the plenary session will take place on October 23, 2013

July 2013 - creation of a working group under the Government of St. Petersburg to attract industrial enterprises to locate on the territory of the satellite city “Yuzhny”

St. PETERSBURG, November 13 – RIA Novosti. The project of the satellite city "Yuzhny" in the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg is almost at the start - on Wednesday the city parliament, in the third reading, approved changes to the General Plan, which allow construction to begin. However, the project is assessed ambiguously by experts, and discussions about the future of the city continue.

Construction of the Yuzhny satellite city, which will take about 13 years, is scheduled to begin in mid-2015. A new city, designed to accommodate 134 thousand people, is planned to be built in the Pushkinsky district on both sides of the M20 federal highway (Kyiv highway). The total investment in the project, which is being implemented by the Start Development company, will amount to about 176 billion rubles.

During the entire period of development of the territory, the implementation of the project will be monitored by a public expert council, which includes, among others, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the research and design center of the General Plan of St. Petersburg, Yuri Bakey.

The public fears for the Kondakopsha forest

Of particular concern to experts and residents of the Pushkinsky district is the impact of the project on the ecology of the area where construction is planned. They fear that the Kondakopsha forest will be cut down in this territory, the Taitsky water pipeline will be destroyed, and the Kuzminka River may dry up.

According to the director of the Ekom Center of Expertise, Alexander Karpov, the future city will occupy a significant part of the Kondakopsha forest. At the same time, not only gardens and parks will appear in its place, but also residential buildings, hotels and sports facilities. “All together will lead to the destruction of the swamp, from which the Kuzminka and Popovka rivers still flow. Accordingly, they will be destroyed as natural objects, which will seriously worsen the landscape and recreational properties of both the Pushkin and Pavlovsky parks,” he believes.

General Director of the Start Development company Andrei Nazarov assures that these claims are greatly exaggerated. “That part of the forest that is complete will be preserved. The part of the forest where construction is possible will be built up with cottages and townhouses located at a considerable distance from each other, and not high-rise buildings,” he noted, adding that in the northern, southern and the central part of the satellite city "Yuzhny" it is planned to create boulevards with views of parks and the lake.

According to Nazarov, the Kuzminka River, for whose fate the public fears, is fenced with protective zones, and in the future a special examination will be carried out to study the influence of the satellite city on the water environment. The Taitsky and Orlovsky water pipelines are also designated as protected zones.

Infrastructure needs to be thought through

The infrastructure of the future satellite city also causes a lot of controversy. According to experts, Yuzhny may encounter transport problems, and this issue needs additional study.

“Despite the expansion and reconstruction of the Kievskoye highway, the construction of an interchange on the Pulkovskoye and Petersburgskoye highways, the presence of a backup highway through Shushary, the transport system is not yet sufficiently developed. The satellite city will most likely encounter such a phenomenon as a “pendulum” in the migration of the population to work and back, since it is unlikely that the entire population of the region will work at those enterprises that will be built here according to the investor’s plans. This means that a thorough study of public transport, including the metro, is necessary,” says the head of the research department of Colliers International in St. Petersburg Veronica Lezhneva.

There are also fears that Yuzhny will turn into just a densely populated residential area. Director of the investment sales department of NAI Becar in St. Petersburg, Andrey Boykov, advocates “thinning out” the development. "This area has a large number of advantages. For example, it is located near the city and the airport, but, nevertheless, is located in an environmentally friendly place - near parks. The launch of the project will entail the development of this area in terms of infrastructure. The main thing is that the developer can to avoid dense development when constructing a new area,” he noted.

Igor Kokorev, head of the strategic consulting department at Knight Frank SPb, is confident that the satellite city needs large commercial and socio-cultural facilities. At the same time, according to his assessment, the satellite city project as a whole will avoid excessive centralization of St. Petersburg. “Potentially, the city needs settlements in its immediate surroundings, relatively autonomous, but connected to its center. This will enhance the decentralization of the city,” the expert said.

According to Lezhneva, creating jobs in the satellite city requires a systemic solution. Moreover, developers will have to decide how to attract to the satellite city exactly those residents who will be in demand at the enterprises built here. “If we manage to gradually implement at least a few high-tech enterprises, then the likelihood that residents of the satellite city will work there will increase. However, even here a skillful balance of different components will be required: the quality and price of housing, the quality of the population, the presence of social infrastructure and the availability of actual jobs ", - she said.

Director of the Center for Sociological Research Oleg Pachenkov believes that the creation of polycentric centers, one of which could be “Yuzhny,” lays claim to the basic model for the development of St. Petersburg. “Yuzhny” is turning from a private project of a developer into an instrument for the development of the city and agglomeration and creates a model of a new approach to the development of territories and cities on a national scale,” he notes.

A development plan for a site with a total area of ​​48.5 hectares in the area of ​​the village of Lesnoye was brought up for discussion. This is a small part of a gigantic project, within the framework of which it is planned to develop more than 2 thousand hectares.

48 hectares for a new life

The project for planning the territory near the village of Lesnoye was presented by Konstantin Kovalev, Deputy General Director for Development of START Development LLC. Here's what he said.

Seven mid-rise apartment buildings will be built here (maximum height will be 33 meters, 220 thousand sq. m), a school for 825 students, three kindergartens for 423 places in total. Also, as part of the reconstruction of the existing facility, an outpatient care center with an area of ​​more than 700 square meters will be created. m, MFC (200 sq. m), social protection center (300 sq. m), post office (300 sq. m), passport service (150 sq. m) and law enforcement stronghold (100 sq. m).

In addition, a shopping complex is planned, under one roof which will house a library and a teenagers club (total area of ​​about 700 sq. m).

Photo report from public hearings (13 photos)

“By starting the construction of the Yuzhny satellite city on the site under consideration, we are solving two problems at once,” noted Konstantin Kovalev. - Firstly, this territory can be transformed for the better thanks to new investments in the development of this part of the Pushkinsky district. This will create new jobs and improve nearby land plots: build roads, plant hundreds of trees, organize extensive public recreational areas. Secondly, the project provides for the creation of modern social facilities, the services of which will be available not only to new residents, but also to about one and a half thousand people living in the village of Lesnoye. Today, the situation with the existing social infrastructure in this territory leaves much to be desired: one overcrowded kindergarten and a school for nine grades of education. There are problems with electricity supply and sewerage.”

South will start from here. The site where the first stage of the project will be implemented

Parking lots, roads and other infrastructure

It is expected that the construction of social and road infrastructure will be carried out simultaneously with the construction of residential buildings.

The PPT also provides for the creation of parking lots on the territory of the block (about 4.4 thousand parking spaces), including the construction of five separate multi-level parking lots for 1.25 thousand cars.

A public transport depot will also be needed as new routes to St. Petersburg will appear. The road network, naturally, will also fall on the shoulders of the developer. But highways are the city's concern.

In terms of transport accessibility, the territory also has a reserve in the form of a railway connection. Today, trains do not stop at Lesnoy, but when the population begins to arrive, both a platform and additional flights will appear on the schedule of the same “swallows”. The developer is already negotiating this with Russian Railways in advance.

The head of the urban planning department of LenNIIproekt, Yuzef Parkman, spoke in detail about the engineering support of the quarter: “The loads were calculated in detail for each section of the territory. In terms of electricity, this is 11 mW. In total, two distribution points and 13 substations will be built in the satellite city of Yuzhny. This guarantees uninterrupted power supply. There will be no problems with the water supply, everything complies with the standards and has been agreed upon with the relevant departments.”

No one is forgotten

Speculation around the Yuzhny satellite city project began quite a long time ago. One of them is completely beyond the bounds: supposedly construction will take place on the bones of our soldiers who died during the war and have not yet been buried.

The commander of the search team “Ingria”, associate professor of the history department of St. Petersburg State University Evgeniy Ilyin, gave a unique report on this topic. He cited archival data that in the Kondakopshino area the losses were not as great as some claim: not thousands or even hundreds, but dozens (in 1944) or even a few (in 1941) of defenders of the Fatherland. The Ingria search party explored the entire territory of the first quarter of the South. And two years ago, the remains of four of our soldiers were discovered not far from the future construction site and were reburied in a military cemetery. Since then, work has continued, but other than shell casings, rifles and unexploded shells, there have been no finds. Some local activists advised expanding the scope of the search, exploring the nearby swamps... But there will be no construction there.

The search around the village of Lesnoye, Ilyin noted, was hampered by a large number of garbage dumps: tin cans, scraps of metal, reinforced concrete slabs with reinforcement. It's hard to work with a metal detector.

At public hearings there is always a place for both demagoguery and emotions. These were quite typical. However, some interesting details also emerged. For example, residents of Pushkin, who were very worried about places in their schools and were preparing to repel the advance of the Varangians, learned that it is from Pushkin that children are transported to Lesnoye today and the school there is overcrowded.

The owners of garages, who had been using them for several decades, suddenly found out that they had no legal right to do so. Approximately 500 of these buildings, which have turned into warehouses, cellars and outbuildings, are doomed to demolition. This was reported to those present by Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Yuri Bochkov, who was forced to admit: “There are no legal grounds for the existence of these garages. You will be demolished, I won’t lie.”

By the way, the representative of START Development Konstantin Kovalev was not as categorical as the people's representative from the city of Pushkin. He proposed creating a working group and dealing with each specific case separately. In general, the law is harsh, but there is also the good will of the developer. And the developer, fortunately, is ready for dialogue.

After the public hearing, four days are given to submit reasoned objections and proposals. The course of the discussion in the Pushkinsky district administration building suggests that they will not happen. This means that by the end of this year the first PPT for the satellite city of Yuzhny will be approved, which can be considered the start for the entire project (by the way, only after the PPT is approved can social facilities be included in targeted investment programs). In 2018, it is planned to present the next quarter's PPT on 230 hectares.

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The Yuzhny satellite city is a planned new district of St. Petersburg. One of the main stimulators of urban development is the Innograd of Science and Technology - a joint project of RUSNANO, St. Petersburg, Yuzhny Satellite City LLC and ITMO University. The Innograd will be located on an area of ​​100 hectares.

The Yuzhny satellite city is a strategic project of St. Petersburg and is included in the short list of priority projects of the Russian Federation. Construction of the satellite city should begin in 2018 and will last 15 years. In Yuzhny there will be 4.3 million sq. m of housing (for 134 thousand people). The area of ​​commercial real estate will be more than 1 million square meters. m. Also, more than 60 thousand jobs will be created in the new area. Investments in the project are envisaged in the amount of about 219 billion rubles.

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The new satellite of St. Petersburg, the city of Yuzhny, should become the largest development project in Russia and one of the alternative centers of St. Petersburg, capable of providing work for more than 100 thousand citizens. The concept of its development was presented on June 13 by a strategic investor, the Start Development company of Zakhara Smushkin. The implementation of the project is expected to cost about 180 billion rubles and take 15 years. The plan will succeed if the administration of St. Petersburg can create reasonable rules of the game for developers and ensure timely investments in infrastructure. As it turned out, the investor will not control the progress of construction - the engineered areas will be put up for sale.

The new satellite of St. Petersburg, the city of Yuzhny, should become the largest development project in Russia and one of the alternative centers of St. Petersburg, capable of providing work for more than 100 thousand citizens. The concept of its development was presented on June 13 by a strategic investor, the Start Development company of Zakhara Smushkin. The implementation of the project is expected to cost about 180 billion rubles and take 15 years. The plan will succeed if the administration of St. Petersburg can create reasonable rules of the game for developers and ensure timely investments in infrastructure. As it turned out, the investor will not control the progress of construction - the engineered areas will be put up for sale.

UK Start Development LLC presented the concept for the development of the satellite city Yuzhny, which should appear on the border of the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region by 2028. The document was developed by a working group of experts from the Center for Applied Research of the European University. The new settlement should extend to the south, where on the border of the city and the region there are territories suitable for integrated development, part of the functions of the historical center of St. Petersburg and become an agglomeration center along with the Lakhta Center, Pulkovo-3 and the Expoforum project. The satellite city should add 0.4% to the gross regional product for the metropolis, added Andrey Nazarov, CEO of Start Development.

The population of the satellite with an area of ​​1910 hectares will be 134 thousand people. For comparison: about 140 thousand live in neighboring Gatchina, and about 220 thousand live in Pushkin and Pavlovsk. About 180 billion rubles will be invested in the implementation of the investment project, which has found support at the federal level, of which approximately 150 billion are investments from the Start Development company, banks and developers. Regional and federal investments are tentatively estimated at 33 billion rubles. They will be used to create the necessary transport and social infrastructure not only for the satellite city, but also for the entire southern suburb. The corresponding investment agreement between St. Petersburg and Management Company Start Development was signed last July.

To work from St. Petersburg to Yuzhny

The development concept for the South is based on the idea of ​​“jobs first, housing second.” This model has already shown effectiveness in creating satellite cities in England, the USA, South Korea and other countries. According to the plan of the European University, about 116 thousand jobs should be created in the city, which will employ almost 29 thousand residents of the South, or 45% of the working population of the satellite city. The remaining 87 thousand jobs will be filled by residents of the south of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. However, the process of pendulum migration from the new settlement to St. Petersburg and back is inevitable, says Oleg Pachenkov. According to his calculations, 35.5 thousand people living in the satellite city will commute to work in the metropolis.

The second point is the quality of the jobs created. In accordance with the directive of Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, it is planned to develop innovative, research enterprises and pilot production on the territory of the satellite city. More than half of the jobs must be designed for highly skilled labor. According to Andrei Nazarov, negotiations on attracting the first employers are already close to the final stage, and the first contracts may soon be announced.

The “southerners” will also work in the Doni-Verevo industrial zone with an area of ​​183 hectares, which is also being developed by Start Development. It is planned to locate warehouses and low-hazard production facilities there: assembly, manufacturing enterprises, enterprises in the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry, and the production of building materials. The company is currently working on engineering support for the territory. Its layout project has already been approved, said Andrei Nazarov.

In total, 56% of the areas under construction, or 4.1 million square meters, will be allocated for housing. m of building. The remaining 3.1 million sq. m - commercial real estate. The lion's share, 1.3 million square meters, will be taken up by parking lots. The area of ​​office real estate and technology parks will be 475 thousand square meters. m, retail - 200 thousand sq. m. m. A theme park will be located on 10 hectares of the Kondakopsha forest. Hotels, sports facilities and catering infrastructure are also planned in the satellite city.

Responsibility will fall on the city

They intend to begin construction of both the infrastructure and the buildings themselves in Yuzhny in mid-2015, said Andrei Nazarov. Before this time, all permitting documents must be ready - amendments to the General Plan and Land Use and Development Rules must be approved by the Legislative Law. The company is currently developing outlines for these documents.

The first to be developed, according to Nazarov, is an area of ​​209 hectares. According to the authors of the concept, the one-time commissioning of real estate should be at least about 150 - 200 thousand square meters. m of housing designed to accommodate 5 - 7 thousand people, and 200 - 300 thousand sq. m. m of non-residential space, including enterprise buildings that create jobs, retail real estate, entertainment and guest infrastructure.

Construct the entire volume of planned development - 7.2 million square meters. The company does not intend to do this on its own. The land will be sold to developers in accordance with their “appetites”. The investor expects to attract not only large construction holdings, most of which have already formed their own land banks, but also medium-sized and even small companies. How exactly the plots will be put up for sale is still unknown.

The architectural appearance, as well as the frequency of commissioning of housing, business development, commercial space and all necessary infrastructure should be regulated by the city and the market. Similar mechanisms now control development in Shushary, in the south of the city and in the Primorsky district. As practice shows, the construction of social and transport infrastructure in these areas lags significantly behind the pace of housing construction, and the quality of the urban environment and the appearance of the neighborhoods often leave much to be desired.

The creation of a transport connection between Yuzhny and St. Petersburg also depends on the city. If the existing infrastructure is not developed, not only home buyers in the new city, but also residents from Gatchina, Pushkin and Pavlovsk will get stuck in traffic jams on the Kievskoye and Pulkovskoye highways. The city will inevitably develop transport infrastructure in the southern direction in connection with the development of large projects in Gatchina, Andrei Nazarov hopes.

Plans for the development of public transport from St. Petersburg and Pushkin to Yuzhny are also just being developed. “The cheapest option is to run a high-speed bus along a dedicated lane to Pulkovo, from where you can get to the city by metro or Aeroexpress,” said Oleg Pachenkov. However, he considers the optimal option to extend the Aeroexpress line to Yuzhny and Gatchina.

Local residents expressed concern about the future of the Kondakopsha forest. Start Development owns about 130 hectares of green space, of which about 30 hectares are planned to be developed with low-rise buildings. In response to the claims, the investor company says that green areas occupy about a quarter of the satellite city’s area - more than 500 hectares. In addition, there are no plans for mass deforestation - the cottages will be built right in the forest, at a distance from each other.

In a similar controversy surrounding the impact of the project on the future of the Kuzminka River, which feeds the ponds of the Pushkin and Pavlovsk parks, and regarding the preservation of the Taitsky and Orlovsky water pipelines, the company claims to preserve water bodies.

As for the part of the project located in the Leningrad region, which is about 1.5 thousand hectares, the company does not yet have plans for its development. “It’s too early to talk about housing development in this part of the territory,” said Andrei Nazarov. The head of “Start Development” limited himself to saying that the solution to infrastructure, engineering issues and the creation of development plans must be coordinated between regions.