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The project “InterSAVE Russia: the administrative tool containing atlas and database on study of architectural values in the urban environment” is now in progress in the Pushkin Administrative District of St.-Petersburg (the former town of Tsarskoye Selo) and is aimed onto elaboration of an effective system of “transparent” management by cultural heritage and urban development as a whole. Three components are under elaboration: the municipal atlas presenting an integrated view on cultural heritage, built and nature environment all over the municipality; the computer database, which covers all buildings of municipality and includes the objective information, evaluation and analytical data, and also digital photos on each building; the guideline for a team-work of governmental authorities and private sector on the balanced approach’s achievement towards conservation of cultural values. The work is grounded on experience obtained at implementation of the InterSAVE system (Survey of Architectural Values in the Environment) in Denmark since 1982, and also in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Estonia and Lithuania since 1994. The project should give to people a complex awareness on environmental, historical and cultural values of locality, drawing attention to a “second-order heritage” (common historic development, etc.). It is especially important in such a town like Pushkin that is full of first-class architectural monuments. The technique provides also an aggregative count of the necessary investments in reconstruction of various buildings types. It is important for planning of state investments in the defined sorts and zones of development and gives a basis for decision making to the private investors at early stages of negotiations with authorities. The brief information on the author of the report: Andrey Ivanov. The architect, chief expert of the Institute on Reconstruction of Historic Towns (INRECON), Moscow. Fields of scientific interests – conservation and development of the environment of historic town centers; social perception and usage of the town-planning heritage. Has more than 30 articles on the given problems. The brief information on organization, in which the reporter works: Institute on Reconstruction of Historic Towns (INRECON). 121170 Russia, Moscow, Poklonnaya St., 13. Phone (7-095) 148 7873, phone/fax (7-095) 148 9365, e-mail andi@pol.ru The main work profile – town planning, designing of public buildings and residential constructions, scientific researches in the field of comprehensive conservation and development of historic cities and towns of Russia.