An era is passing: What is happening on Sennaya Square. “Stalls are everything”: stationary retail outlets are being removed from Sennaya Square. Demolition of stalls on Sennaya Square.

All seven shopping pavilions on Sennaya Square will be demolished by the end of October. The lease term for them has expired, and the city did not want to renew it due to the upcoming reconstruction of the space.

Eight one-story pavilions were built in 2003, when the improvement of Sennaya Square after the construction of the Sadovaya metro station was completed for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. The structures, assembled from metal structures and designed by Lovkachev and Partners Architectural Design Bureau LLC, were intended to be reminiscent of hay barns. The buildings were erected as temporary by Okean LLC, part of the Adamant holding.

The lease for the plots expired in March 2011. At the same time, one of the pavilions was demolished - on the south-eastern corner of Sennaya Square and Efimova Street. The dismantling was explained by the need to build an above-ground vestibule for the Spasskaya metro station (it opened in November 2013 and was legalized last fall). The demolition work was carried out by Adamant itself. Since then, the holding has been paying for the actual use of the remaining pavilions.

In 2014, the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure planned to begin a large-scale reconstruction of Sennaya Square, including the construction of underground passages (the implementation of this project was postponed until 2018 due to a lack of money in the treasury). At the same time, the property relations committee sent Ocean a notice to terminate the lease. However, trading activities continued, and in May 2016, KIO filed a lawsuit against Okean “for eviction from land plots.” The arbitration court granted the application and refused to grant a deferment. The decision did not enter into legal force; the next meeting is scheduled for October 6.

Despite this, on September 30 the city began dismantling the pavilions (the kiosk was demolished a little earlier). To date, two buildings in the western part of Sennaya Square have been liquidated; today they should begin work on the hangars near Grivtsov Lane. The dismantling will be completely completed by the end of October, an official representative of the Center for Improving the Efficiency of State Property (acting as the customer) told Kanoner today. A GATI warrant was not issued, although the movement of pedestrians around the square was very difficult.

The demolition contractor is Tennis House LLC (connected with the center's former contractor, Gasma CJSC). There was no competition for the demolition of the pavilions on Sennaya, since the center is playing out the dismantling of hypothetical objects for future use. The last such competition was won by Tennis House. By the way, the center’s website uses deliberately inaccurate wording, as if “[the center’s] specialists themselves have begun to liberate Sennaya Square from illegal trading facilities.”

Now the pavilions, untouched by the excavator, stood destroyed. On the night of October 3, a fire occurred in one of them - near Efimova Street, which is why the exit from the underground passage was closed to passengers both yesterday and today.

After the square is vacated, they promise to no longer build it up or fill it with shopping pavilions, but to turn it into a recreation area.

Photo by Dmitry Ratnikov

On Monday, St. Petersburg authorities reported on the completion of work to clear Sennaya Square from illegal shopping facilities.“It took less than a month to implement the full range of measures to dismantle illegal trading facilities on the square. Despite the fact that specialists from the Center for Improving the Efficiency of Use of State Property provided entrepreneurs with the opportunity to voluntarily eliminate all violations and remove their property, forced evacuation measures had to be applied to several dozen retail facilities illegally installed on the square, the press service of the Property Committee said. relations of St. Petersburg.
Currently, road workers are working on Sennaya Square. Their main task is to repair the “spots” left after dismantling the stalls to ensure safe passage for pedestrians. In the spring, it is planned to install flowerpots on the square, as well as boxes on lighting poles and power fences for planting hanging plants.
As previously reported, illegal trade pavilions on Sennaya Square began on September 26. During the preliminary inspection, it was established that more than 60 retail facilities, including pavilions above metro exits, are being used illegally and must be dismantled.

Smolny has completed clearing Sennaya Square of illegal trade. Fontanka found out which other metro stations will host the “night of long buckets.”

Archive/Sergey Nikolaev/"Fontanka.ru"

Sennaya has been cleared of illegal trade pavilions, and St. Petersburg residents on social networks are rejoicing at how spacious one of the city’s main squares has become. In Smolny they have not yet disclosed the list of addresses where tractors with ruthless buckets can be expected, although Governor Georgy Poltavchenko promised that officials will remove everything that “stands illegally.” Fontanka, with the help of Rosreestr, found out that demolition awaits the stalls at Veterans Avenue, Victory Park and Lomonosovskaya, and perhaps even in the realm of 1990s-style trade, at Udelnaya.

The layout of non-stationary retail facilities now includes approximately 9 thousand addresses. Only a special team of the Property Relations Committee can study the legal basis for everything. Lacking such resources, Fontanka decided to concentrate on stalls and pavilions in close proximity to metro stations.

Complete demolition

For more than four years, an indoor market has been operating illegally, hanging over the exits from the Prospekt Veteranov metro station. According to Rosreestr, lease agreements for areas where cellular phone shops and grocery stores are located expired back in 2012-2013. However, the market, associated with the management of the local one, continues to operate, despite Smolny's attempt to demolish it in 2012.

The Severnaya Zvezda-Torg Service company is also associated with the management of Dachnoye, which rents two plots immediately at the exit from the Avtovo station: its owners are Moscow Region Deputy Dmitry Mishchuk and Elena Sagalayeva, the ex-wife of the head of the municipality Vadim Sagalayev. In these areas there are round shopping pavilions where you can buy flowers. According to Rosreestr, the lease expired six years ago – in October 2010.

In 2013, shopping pavilions located near the Lesnaya metro station (closer to Pargolovskaya Street) became illegal. The tenant, the Nevaflor company, tried to force Smolny through the court to extend the terms, but then unexpectedly abandoned its demands. Something has also stalled within the principle committee on property relations: rental payments are not being received into the budget, but tractors are not driving to Kantemirovskaya Street.

It’s high time to demolish the pavilions opposite the Lomonosovskaya metro station, located along Matyushenko Lane. The lease agreement for the plot on which a small indoor market is located next to the Moscow Gate has completely expired: the right to lease 3 thousand square meters. m the company "Kovcheg" lost at the end of 2008. Kovcheg is owned by St. Petersburg entrepreneur Yuri Zhorno, who often comments in the press on small business issues. He is also active in the field of monumental art: with his funds, a monument to Domenico Trezzini was erected at the congress near the Annunciation Bridge. In 2013, Smolny already demolished the shopping complex it owned near the Zvezdnaya metro station, but for some reason the officials did not get to the Moscow Gate.

Partial demolition

At some metro stations, the Efficiency Center's buckets will have to maneuver: some of the buildings operate illegally, while others have legal grounds for operation. For example, on the corner of Basseynaya and Moskovsky, next to the Park Pobedy metro station, there is a whole archipelago of stalls. Two plots of land leased from the Association of Entrepreneurs "Park" have been used illegally since the summer of 2016. For the rest, which were transferred to Yabloko LLC, the lease expires at the end of the current decade. Yabloko is controlled by entrepreneur Ashot Efendiyev, who owns a network of outlets selling fruits and vegetables.

The situation is similar with the Prospekt Prosveshcheniya station, which can only be reached through shopping redoubts in the form of the Nord shopping center and small pavilions. For example, there is no reason to demolish the colorful pavilions located on the other side of the metro on Engels Avenue. The land here is leased by the Polyus company until 2020. “Polyus” is registered at the same address as “Selena” LLC, which owns the right to use plots next to “Ozerki”, “Muzhestva Square”, and “Udelnaya” (a chain of stalls along Enotaevskaya Street). Both “Selena” and “Polyus” previously belonged to entrepreneur Elshan Kirzhanov, who also tried to build a store on the site of a children’s playground on Nauki, 44.

However, Smolny will still have to clean up the area near Prospekt Prosveshcheniya a little. The shopping pavilion, which stands right at the corner of the intersection of Engels and Prosveshcheniya Avenue, enters the gas distribution network zone and, as the Arbitration Court recently decided, must be partially dismantled. The famous market on Udelnaya, behind the railway tracks, will also have to be partially cleared. Outwardly, it represents a single whole: first there are pavilions with cheap clothes and shoes, then a second-hand store, then a flea market. However, for some reason it was divided into more than 20 plots, most of which are leased from the Strong company. This company was founded in the mid-2000s by the ANO “Administrator of the Regional Public Fund for UFSB Programs,” which was headed by entrepreneur Dmitry Mikhalchenko for a long time.

The leases on most of Strong's sites don't expire for several years. At the same time, one by one it has already ended, which means that the property relations committee will have to either extend the deadlines or somehow cut out a piece of the trade pavilion. “Strong’s” main neighbor is the “Captain Tarasov Foundation”: its plot of 4400 sq. m. m stretches across the entire market, right down to the antiques stalls. The fund was established by an Afghanistan war veteran who died in 2011. At the same time, in SPARK he is still listed as its sole founder.

Overhanging transitions

Kiosks with flowers and newspapers, directly adjacent to the metro, are rented by the subway. The State Unitary Enterprise “Petersburg Metro” also manages part of the underground passages directly leading to the metro. In most cases, metal structures are installed above the crossings themselves, which Vladimir Garyugin’s enterprise also transferred to commercial structures.

Smolny also does not lag behind the subordinate State Unitary Enterprise, on whose balance sheet there are crossings outside the metro area. The space above the crossings is leased from Avtovo, Kirovsky Zavod, Narvskaya, and Park Pobedy. Here the monopolist is the Petersburg Transit company, which is controlled by Sergei Kuznetsov, the owner of the Marshall chain of auto parts stores. As indicated in Rosreestr, its structures are located legally. But the right to lease the pavilion above the crossing next to the National Library on Moskovsky expired back in 2012. However, Smolny is in no hurry to evict the Kovcheg company of Yuri Zhorno. Although on October 1, Governor Georgy Poltavchenko, on the sidelines of the Sochi Economic Forum, said: “Everything that stands illegally will be removed.”

Andrey Zakharov,
"Fontanka.ru"

Sennaya Square should be radically transformed by the end of the year. It’s hard to believe, but it’s a fact: the “belly” of St. Petersburg is getting rid of retail outlets. The process is different from in Moscow (everything happens during the day, step by step and quite carefully) - but the end will probably be similar: shawarma, coffee, flowers, mobile phones - all these goods will disappear, leaving an empty area. Everything will be demolished, including the large pavilions above the metro entrances - they began dismantling them today at noon, and they promise to finish them by Monday.

The project to transform the area, costing 35 million rubles, is being handled by the improvement committee; the authorities want to make Sennaya a “new public space” with “small architectural forms.” The Village looked at what Sennaya looks like now and found out what will happen to it next.

Photos

Victor Yulyev

When did stalls appear on Sennaya?

Officially, the trading history of Sennaya Square begins in the 80s of the 19th century, when three buildings of the Sennaya Market were built in its center according to the design of the architect Kitner. A decade and a half earlier, the city government admitted: “Sennaya and the alleys surrounding it emit such a terrible stench that it can literally make a person faint.” There were 500 shops under the glass roofs of the new market buildings. By the beginning of the 20th century, Sennaya again acquired a bad reputation as one of the most unsanitary places in St. Petersburg.

In the 30s, the buildings of the Sennoy Market were demolished (even earlier, the Soviet government had liquidated the slums, brothels and taverns that surrounded the square). The area was paved and landscaped. The market was pushed out into an empty courtyard to the east of the square.

The spontaneous market with many stalls revived again with the collapse of the USSR - in the early 90s, at the same time when the new Sadovaya metro station was opened.

Another reconstruction of the Sennaya took place in 2003, when the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg was celebrated. Under Governor Matvienko, trade pavilions were built on the square, the Peace Tower was installed (six years ago it cracked and was dismantled), and a chapel was built. Trade pavilions were erected on the square - Sennaya gradually began to take on the appearance it had become familiar until last week.

Why are the stalls being demolished?

According to media reports, back in 2011, Okean LLC, the main tenant on Sennaya Square, expired contracts for four large plots. This year, the arbitration court decided to vacate these areas. Chairman of the Property Relations Committee (PRC) Alexander Semchukov told reporters today that the contract with Okean was terminated two years ago, and all this time the subtenants, whom officials called “hostages of the situation,” paid rent at their actual location, staying on the square in the air rights

“Kommersant” writes that the current activity on Sennaya Square may be associated with large retail chains: “In general, experts associate the situation with the destruction of small retail facilities, both in St. Petersburg and in Moscow, with possible lobbying of retail chains whose turnover is declining due to -due to the crisis: as people try to find a cheaper alternative, part of the money flows to non-network trade.”

This is not the first “tolerable” activity on Sennaya even in the current decade. So, in June last year, employees of the Center for Improving the Efficiency of Use of State Property (CPIGI) promised to clear all four areas, but only by cutting off the entrance doors of one of the retail outlets.

This time, 60 (this is official, in fact much more) shopping facilities should disappear from Sennaya Square - absolutely all stalls and pavilions. The liquidation procedure is different from the “night of the long buckets” in Moscow, when more than a hundred stalls were demolished at once. “We will do everything carefully and civilly, so as not to disturb the residents,” promised Alexander Semchukov.

Small objects were dismantled until Thursday evening. The scheme is as follows: first, TsPEIGI employees issued notices to the subtenants - and if they did not comply with them (that is, they did not clean the outlet themselves) - they simply “cut out” the metal structures from the surrounding landscape and scrapped them.

At noon on September 30, the second stage of clearing the Sennaya began - with the dismantling of large pavilions. By this point, almost all the subtenants had left the premises. The local eateries were empty - bare walls could be seen through the wide open doors. Flower sellers put vases with bouquets on the street and sadly explained to passers-by that “there is a sale going on.” Next to one of the cell phone stores there was disassembled furniture.

Against this background, interrupted by the screech of a chainsaw, the technical director of Okean, Alexander Subbotin, tried to explain to journalists that it was supposedly impossible to dismantle the pavilions “carefully and civilly”: there are serious utility lines running under the square that could easily be damaged. The chairman of the KIO responded that the demolition was agreed upon with the committees, the metro and Lenenergo and “control is at the proper level.”

Semchukov described the process itself as “the protection of property rights of St. Petersburg.” The demolition was paid for from the city budget. According to the plan, it will end on Monday, October 3. But, looking at the strong structures of the pavilions, you find it hard to believe that the “deadline” is realistic.

What will happen to Senna's entrepreneurs?

The same Kommersant recently reported that the Property Fund offered about a hundred entrepreneurs to rent premises in the center for ten years directly from the city. The auction should take place in October-November. Fund employees distributed special booklets that listed 13 properties for rent (the range of addresses was from Rubinshteina Street to the same Sadovaya Street).

The owner of Coffee Go, a pioneer chain in the genre of urban microcoffee shops, Anatoly Pobozhev says that he personally has not received any offers from the fund. We spoke with Anatoly on Wednesday, September 28, - at that time his coffee shop on Sennaya was still open. A few hours ago, the establishment - one of six at the entrepreneur - closed forever.

Anatoly Pobozhev

owner of Coffee Go coffee shops

At first, in 2012, we had a small stall on Sennaya, 2 by 2 meters - it stood directly opposite the Spasskaya metro station, which was just under construction at that time. In the summer of 2013, we moved to the pavilion above the exit from the Sadovaya metro station to Efimova Street, on the side of the parking “pocket”. Our lease was always extended, everything was fine.

All the stalls were going to be demolished two years ago, then a year ago. In 2014, I couldn’t go on vacation: I was sitting on my suitcases. In the end, it turned out funny: in one of the pavilions where Teremok used to be, they sawed off the door - the tenants got scared, moved out, and the next day new people moved in, and now there is a cafe called Seno. I'm afraid the same thing might happen now.

Almost all the stalls have now been demolished. But pavilions are mostly permanent structures: I can’t imagine how much money and bulldozers are needed to get rid of them. It turns out that the entrances to the Sadovaya metro station must be closed for some time.

No one is talking about what will happen here after demolition. I have never seen the current plan for the reconstruction of Sennaya Square. The officials shrug their shoulders. How can you demolish something without an approved plan?

It seems to me that the authorities do not understand a little that Sennaya without trade is not Sennaya. If all the stalls are demolished, in six months or a year either pavilions will be built again, or grandmothers with carts will appear, or trade will begin from folding tables, which is carried out by our southern friends. That is, from pavilions - which, in an amicable way, can simply be restored - we will return to street trade of the stall type. This is a step back to the 90s. Sennaya needs flowers, mobile communications, shawarma, and some kind of catering. After all, our coffee shop (regular visitors cry: “How can we remain without coffee?”).

For now we are keeping our finger on the pulse. None of the neighbors I know, except perhaps Euroset, have seen the regulations. They just came to us on Tuesday and verbally warned us: “Be prepared to move out by Friday.” (CPEIGI The Village reported that the instructions were written, they were issued against signature, with photographic recording. - Ed.).

What will happen to Senna after the cleanup?

Plans for a new reconstruction of Sennaya Square have been brewing in Smolny for five or six years. So, in 2011, roads and public transport routes were removed underground, and the area above was left as a pedestrian area. There was also a less radical option - with the demolition of shopping pavilions and the expansion of the roadway.

This is exactly what - to actually turn the Sennaya into a zone unfriendly to pedestrians - should be seriously done in 2014; the reconstruction would cost 1.2 billion rubles. The “Beautiful Petersburg” movement actively opposed it at that time: it was even an alternative reconstruction project. However, in the spring of 2015, due to budget cuts, the ambitious project was postponed indefinitely.

At the moment, the improvement committee is considering a much more modest project for transforming Sennaya Square for 35 million rubles. Earlier, the Chairman of the Property Relations Committee (PRC), Alexander Semchukov, described the future of the square to journalists: “It will be an open space with trees, small architectural forms will appear, there will be no trade. We will think and discuss, including with the youth policy committee, how to use it. Maybe there should be a Christmas market there. The square will become a public attraction, but now you won’t see a single tourist there.”

The head of the department of gardening and park management of the improvement committee, Oksana Guseva, told reporters today that starting tomorrow the area will begin to be washed and cleaned. Then, in those places where there used to be pavilions, tiled paving will be restored. “Next year it is planned to enhance the flower decoration,” the official added. To date, the committee has sent a letter to the KGA with a question about what kind of “small architectural forms” can be applied to the square.

Smolny emphasizes two fundamental things: a) Sennaya will become an open space where certain cultural events will take place; b) there will definitely be no trade in the square.

After Sennaya, Smolny intends to take on other city locations: in particular, to do something with the market near the Prospekt Veteranov metro station. However, they already tried in 2012, but it didn’t work.

Sergey Nosov

writer

Sennaya Square is described in my novel “A Member of Society, or Hungry Time.” This is the beginning of the 90s, in my memory - the brightest page in the history of Sennaya. During the era of stagnation, it was simply a large asphalt space; there was no trade - only the square itself. And in the early 90s, on Sennaya there was a Metrostroy construction site, fenced with a concrete fence, tram tracks ran around it - the rest of the space on the square and nearby was managed by people who sold everything that could be sold. There were thousands of people standing there. The rows of the flea market were filled with pancakes and sandwiches from grandmother-entrepreneurs. Near the metro they exchanged food coupons. It was a gigantic living organism.

In general, Sennaya Square is an ever-fading nature. This has been the custom since the 19th century. This is karma - the area is constantly being remade. I am not sure that the new facilities that are promised on Sennaya after the demolition of the pavilions will withstand our climate - our heat or, conversely, our frosts. And also the love or hate of our townspeople.

I don’t know at all whether there is a need to exterminate trade on Sennaya. It has always been associated with trade, there is no getting away from it. However, I think that no matter what is built on Sennaya Square in the future, it will all be short-lived.