St. Petersburg, like other large Russian cities, is surrounded by satellite cities consisting of faceless blocks of new buildings. Such buildings are being brought up in the middle of a clean field, and new settlers find themselves without any infrastructure (roads, hospitals, police are not included) so they have been waiting for years.
Sergey Mityagin, NII PG General Director about the problems of megapolises urban development:
"The configuration of a house or a residential complex is drawn based on the benefits. So the multi-storey and studio apartments prevail.
And at the same time — narrow alleys along the houses according to rural standards to let fire equipment pass, not a centimeter more. Moreover, developers often do not even explore the soil — the piles are simply driven into a great depth, and they hold the entire structure.
Developers also save on sound insulation. So, monolithic materials conduct certain sounds. The walls must be two or three layers to quit such sounds but this is too expensive.
Acceptance of the residentials is accomplished according to the "winter option" — without landscaping and parking: "We will do it later." And "later" the developers simply leave. And now this is a problem of the municipal administration, and the citizens suffer from it .
The government should restrict multi-storey construction in a regulatory way. The building density is to be reduced”.
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