About the Project of Comprehensive Reconstruction and Functional Adjustment of the Architectural Ensemble of the Kerch Fortress Near the Krymsky Bridge

The article highlights an architectural project that is conceptually important for the modern geopositioning of Russia, which in its meaning and image is the “front gate of the Crimea”. This is a project for the reconstruction of the ensemble of the unique Kerch Fortress, located 200 meters from the Crimean Bridge and built by the famous military engineer Eduard Totleben in the second half of the 19th century. The functional zones of the ensemble, the historical and restored objects included in it (including the Church of St. Blgv. Prince Alexander Nevsky) are presented and also the building structures and materials used in their construction are described. The creation of a large-scale ensemble with a large vertical of the restored temple at the entrance to the territory of Crimea from the side of the Crimean bridge, which will symbolize the power and unity of the Russian territory and will become the image of the front “Gate of Crimea”, is substantiated.

P.V. PANUKHIN, Candidate of Architecture (Engineering)

Moscow Institute of Architecture (State Academy of Architecture) – MARKHI (11, Rozhdestvenka Street, Moscow, 107031, Russian Federation)

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