FAO «GLAVGOSEKSPERTIZA OF RUSSIA» AND PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES
Тhe article provides an overview of the typical requirements of the FAO Glavgosexpertiza of Russia when examining the results of engineering surveys and project documentation, in terms of ensuring the safety of cultural heritage sites (hereinafter — the CHS). The FAO Glavgosexpertiza of Russia requires: 1) provide information on the absence (or presence) of restrictions on development activities (CHS, located in the registry of the Russian Federation , identified CHS, objects with signs of CHS, protective and guard zones of the CHS) in the territory of conducting development activities; 2) provide information on the boundaries of the territory for which information on the absence of restrictions on development activity is provided; 3) in the case of restrictions on development activity related to the availability of the CHS — to provide the boundaries of protective and guarding zones of CHS within which development activities agreed by the relevant state body of the CHS; 4) provide information on the boundaries of protective and guarding zones of the CHS, within which the relevant state body of the CHS is allowed to carry out development activities, subject to a number of conditions specified in the project documentation for the preservation of the CHS. Typical problems encountered by survey organizations are also described, trying to satisfy the requirements of the FAO Glavgosexpertiza of Russia: 1) the need to obtain information about the CHS not only from the regional state authorities exercising state protection of the CHS, but also from the federal and sometimes municipal authorities; 2) discovering of the СHS and objects with signs of the CHS, after the state historical and cultural expertise has established their absence; 3) the need and ways to ensure the safety of the CHS in the conduct of development activities that do not involve earthwork and even construction work; 4) lack of understanding in what boundaries of the territory it is necessary to establish the presence (or absence) of HS; 5) the need to correct the boundaries of land allocation after the discovering of HS.