In St. Petersburg activists burned a Gazprom Neft project on Maslenitsa, 26 February 2023

[Summary translation prepared by Business and Human Rights Resource Center]

On the day of Maslenitsa residents of St. Petersburg burned a "stuffed Crystal Ship" - a model of the Gazprom Neft office on Okhtinsky Cape. Thus, the city defenders protested against the construction plan on a unique archaeological site...

The Crystal Ship is a "green" complex of Gazprom Neft with a landscape park. The company said that, as conceived by the architects, the glass facade of the building is suspended above the ground on a metal frame. Allegedly, such an architectural solution allows complying with the rules for building in a protected area. Activists say that Gazprom's plans will destroy most of the archaeological sites.

The defenders of the cape believe that the construction is a violation of the legislation on identified objects of cultural heritage...