Department of Moscow Cultural Heritage (Mosgornasledie) has decided to make Bykov’s House a cultural heritage site, the Department’s press-service informs.
      
      Shortly before the New Year’s holidays the user of the unique building - the Institute of Computer-Aided Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences – attempted to start on the given site illegal works, which were stopped by Mosgornasledie with the support of city defenders’ movement.
      
      Bykov’s House at the address 19/18, 2nd Brestskaya Street was constructed by the well-known architect Lev Kekushev and is one of the most expressive samples of the Moscow art nouveau style.
      
      Source: irn.ru
Author: Vera Ivanova