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Ongoing vigilance is necessary to secure the future of the Shukhov Tower, an icon of the advent of modern technology and an engineering masterpiece of the early twentieth century.

The Rusakov Club, now home to the Roman Viktyuk Theater, was restored in 2015.

Built between 1928 and 1930 and designed by Moisei Ginzburg and Ignatii Milinis for employees of the National Finance Ministry, the Narkomfin building is a seminal monument of Modern architecture.

In 1927 the master architect Konstantin Melnikov was granted a small plot of land to build a private house.

The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign surveys the surrounding topography of Podol'sk, a Russian industrial city just south of Moscow.

Despite its designation as a historic city, Vyborg needs better planning for conservation and stronger enforcement of heritage protection laws.

Yelagin Island, located in the Neva River just north of St. Petersburg, was one of the Romanov dynasty's retreats in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The restoration of Viipuri Library protected an iconic example of modernist architecture while also setting a precedent for conservation projects at similar sites around the world.

Kizhi Pogost is located on one of the many hundreds of islands on tranquil Lake Onega in the northern region of Karelia.

The Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum was the first palace commissioned by Russian empress Catherine the Great following her seizure of power from her husband.

Alexander Palace housed three generations of Russian monarchs before it was abandoned by the royal family in the months preceding the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

Founded under Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century in Istra on the outskirts of Moscow, the New Jerusalem Monastery was meant to evoke the Holy Land and serve as a pilgrimage site.