Auditors to Resettle St. Petersburg Mint
Russia’s Audit Chamber recommended the government September 9, 2005 to remove St. Petersburg Mint from Petropavlovsk Fortress. The auditors think the special work mode of the enterprise that was established far back in 1724 impedes rebuilding. Goznak said in return, they don’t intend to take the auditors’ advice.
On Friday, the Audit Chamber of Russia announced the results of its July probe into the progress of rebuilding work in the State Museum of St. Petersburg History. For iconostasis of Petropavslovsk Cathedral, which restoration started in 1993, the work completion stands at 14.7 percent of the total estimate, the Audit Chamber specified in the news release, attributing the delay to the Mint operation, to be more precise to peculiar mode of its work, and recommending the government to consider advisability of its whereabouts in Petropavlovsk Fortress.
Boris Arakcheev, director of the State Museum of St. Petersburg History, was more than cautious when commenting on the auditors’ proposal. “The question is not even that someone impedes the work but that the industrial area contradicts historical and cultural designation of Petropavslovsk Fortress,” Arakcheev told Kommersant. “The case in hand is not to completely dislodge the Mint from Petropavslovsk Fortress. We just want the premises that are used as the metal/ready product warehouses to be vacated.
“We won’t even be thinking of the Mint’s transference in the nearest years,” rebuffed Arkady Trachuk, Goznak general director.
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