One of the largest reconstruction projects of an industrial zone in the capital — the former ZIL car factory — was presented at the forum “Culture. Look into the Future.” Filling the peninsula with cultural and social functions in the near future will make it a full-fledged part of the city center.

The ZIL peninsula with an area of about 400 hectares has long been a vital link in the network of the city’s industrial areas, concentrating within it the lion’s share of places of employment. With the end of production operations in this area, a new urban planning task has appeared: it must generate an alternative urban center and once again “pull” the surplus population within the Garden Ring onto its territory, only this time it will be due to the development of cultural and social functions.

Now this area with a rich industrial past has more of a non-capital, marginal profile, while in fact ZIL is far from being located in the industrial outskirts, but on the contrary: it is quite close to the city center, just a 10-minute drive from the Kremlin. The project to covert ZIL is not tasked with simply returning the peninsula to full city use, but to make it truly a part of the city center.....Continue Reading

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