Russia

Russian entrepreneur Oleg Barmin to turn a sleepy village near Kaliningrad into a German-style town.

Russian entrepreneur Oleg Kuzichkin, who used to own meat processing business, built this Gothic renaissance luxury hotel on the Volga to attract tourists to Samara region and revive it.

Young architect Ivan Magarev restores an unusual Neo-Gothic merchant's house built in 1910 in a tiny Russian village of Ustye near Vologda.

After WWII the German mansion built in 1895 by the famous Prussian von Below family became the property of a Soviet brick factory and was remodelled into a block of flats. In 2021 a Russian entrepreneur decided to save it.

Ivan Artyukh, a native of the Kaliningrad region, is the spearhead of the Burg Ragnit redevelopment project whose goal is to rebuild the ruins of the 15th century Teutonic castle into a hotel and a museum.

Once on a business in Russia's westernmost Kaliningrad region the Sorokins stumbled on a dilapidated building which bore traces of its glorious past. The building turned out to be a 750-year-old Waldau castle built by the Teutonic Order in the 13th century. Its owner - the Russian Orthodox Church - and the family signed a lease agreement.

Volunteers led by Vasily Plitin are focused on hundreds of ruined medieval churches and castles built by the Teutonic order in what is now Russia's westernmost Kaliningrad region.

Vasily Plitin has started a volunteer movement whose goal is to preserve the historical heritage of Russia's westernmost Kaliningrad region which boasts dozens of medieval churches and castles built by the Teutonic order. The Ruin Keepers organize regular clean-ups at heritage sites and promote the concept of aesthetically appealing ruins.