The order does not name the facility itself: the document lists cadastral quarter 77:01:0001018 and the boundary coordinates. These coordinates cover the territory of the Kremlin gas station on Volkhonka opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
Within the zone, flights of drones of any maximum takeoff weight are prohibited, as is the use of ground-based unmanned vehicles, as well as mass socio-political, sports, cultural, and entertainment events. Trade is also not allowed there.
In addition, the zone prohibits the construction of apartment buildings, hotels, shopping and entertainment centers, helicopter pads, underground parking lots, bomb shelters, communications facilities, and the placement of advertising structures. The organization of tourist activities is also prohibited.
Engineering communications — water pipes, gas pipelines, sewerage, heating mains, and electrical cables — are required to be placed no closer than 30 meters from the boundaries of the protected facility’s land plot. In July, Verstka wrote about FSO’s plans to establish this zone: at that time, a draft with the same area and the same set of restrictions had already been published on the legal acts portal.
The Kremlin gas station is located on Volkhonka between properties 14 and 16 and is intended for official, primarily government, transport. The filling station appeared in the 1930s, is considered the only realized element of the Palace of the Soviets project, and is attributed to architect Alexey Dushkin.
The ensemble has the status of an identified monument of architecture. In 2013, Novaya Gazeta wrote that in urban-planning documents the gas station was listed as an FSO facility, and around it they were then discussing the Museum Quarter project of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, on the site of which a new exhibition complex by Norman Foster was planned. Arkhnadzor opposed demolition; later the plans changed, and the station was preserved; sources at the Pushkin Museum call it a functioning gas station for government cars and one of the last surviving examples of Soviet art deco.
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