11.12.2007 // Interfax

Office complex of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation worth 30bln RUR will built in the south-west of Moscow by the end of 2011

The office complex of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation worth 30bln RUR is supposed to be built in the south-east of Moscow by the end of 2011, the director of the project Denis Kozyrev told journalists on Tuesday.

He said that the complex will be built in the territory of the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP). The complex will have a 150-meter-high tower to be built at the corner of Sevastopol and Nakhimov avenues.

The offices of Rosatom will cover a total area of 60,000 sq m, the offices of Atomenergoprom and its six subsidiaries – 135,000 sq m. The complex will also have conference halls and laboratories. 

The total area of the complex will make up to 300,000 sq m (100,000 sq m – underground parking area). The designer of the complex is Senab Project Bureau, the chief architect is Dmitry Prokofyev. 

The design is supposed to be ready by mid 2008, the construction is to be started in early 2009.

The owner of the project will be Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation. Almost all contractors and sub-contractors will represent the nuclear industry. The project will be financed by creditors under Rosatom’s guarantees.

ITEP’s territory covers almost 75 h in Cheryomushki, South-Western District of Moscow. The neighbors of the future complex are such historical monuments as the Mansion of Menshikovs-Golitsyns (XVII) and the Church of the Sign (XVIII). So, the designers are faced with a number of landscape and visual restrictions.

“The new buildings must not overhang over the monuments. We are not going to trespass the historical area. Our site is the area along Sevastopol Avenue,” Kozyrev said.

One of the buildings will house a museum of nuclear industry. The complex will also have a four-star hotel, a campus, medical and sports facilities.

Today, ecology, transport and energy are the key requirements to new construction projects in Moscow. All ecological requirements will be observed: the complex will have a big recreation area. The problem of transport will be solved by the fourth ring-way near Nakhimov Avenue, the problem of energy – by 40MW gas-reciprocating units and a 40MW boiler. “We are also planning to reconstruct the electric networks of the district,” Kozyrev said.

One of the key requirements to the project is preservation of the research activities of ITEP. “We are planning to modernize the institute’s hadronic accelerator built in the 1960s. We are also considering the possibility of building a nuclear medicine center,” Kozyrev said.

“The complex should have an original name. For this purpose we are planning to announce a special contest,” Kozyrev said