MOSCOW, May 21. Suppliers of equipment for the new building of the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment in Moscow from France, Germany, and Switzerland left project against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine, however, some European contractors, including from Spain, remained, while those who left were replaced by manufacturers from Russia and China, said Mikhail Rossiev, project manager of the LANIT-Integration company.
LANIT-Integration became the general contractor for the construction of the new Tretyakov building in 2019 and was supposed to complete the work only in 2025, but the project was completed a year ahead of schedule, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis due to the situation in Ukraine , Rossiev said. 
“COVID affected everyone, at one time everyone was sent into isolation, including construction workers. But we must pay tribute to the Ministry of Construction, which very quickly gave the order to start construction. But a logistics crisis followed – prices for materials, equipment, everything soared But through legislative acts it was possible to regulate so that prices could be a little lower for everyone, including for builders. This was a great relief for us,” he said.
It turned out to be more difficult to cope with the consequences of the 2022 crisis. “When many companies announced that they were leaving, this required us to redo the project quite a lot. It was mainly engineering equipment that suffered. Almost everything that was produced in Europe turned out to be unavailable. German and French manufacturers simply left and We were left without any support. Some neutral countries, Swiss manufacturers, refused to cooperate. We had to convert all this to a domestic one, in particular, the fire alarm system,” Rossiev noted. 
At the same time, according to him, some European companies, including a Spanish contractor, remained in the project because “business dictates”: “Some companies said that we will still work because we don’t see any problems. This is an object of art , why not help, and everything is delivered perfectly.”
Those who left “simply lost money,” as they were forced to pay a fine for breaking the contract and install the equipment intended for the project, Rossiev noted. “We lost time, of course, and money, but we still finished a year earlier. And it turned out to be very comfortable to work with domestic manufacturers. This, for example, electrical equipment, the climate control system is also domestic,” he explained. 
Computer equipment was also made in Russia, as was the security system, access control and alarm system, but the monitors were from China, as were other systems that could not be replaced with Russian analogues. “From the point of view of changing some kind of paradigm, there is nothing new for us, because for the West, China also produces everything, and directly it was even cheaper for us. Some competencies of unfriendly countries that the Russian side could not replace, we simply they didn’t find it. Our compatriots were able to build it up and do something faster,” he said.
The construction project manager rates the quality of domestic equipment very highly, since these companies are formed “from the fragments of the West” – that is, from teams that previously worked in Russia for Western manufacturers. “In our IT business, the main thing is to have brains, competence, experience, and so on. They followed exactly this principle, and this is a success, they made competitive systems that are now working here, and they will continue to sell them, and not I rule out that they will also go to foreign markets,” Rossiev concluded. 
< br />ABOUT THE PROJECT
“LANIT-Integration” together with PPK “Unified Customer” completed the construction of a new building for the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment with an area of more than 35 thousand square meters. In addition to exhibition halls with movable partitions to organize the space, the facility houses restoration workshops for painting, graphics, sculpture, as well as a scientific photo archive and a conference room. It is planned to install information displays, interactive panels, tables and kiosks and other IT and multimedia solutions.
Thus, in the entrance group of visitors there will be a robot guide who will tell about the exhibitions. The exhibition and concert halls will be equipped with LED screens, sound equipment, digital PTZ cameras for recording internal and external events, as well as simultaneous translation systems and audio transmission to wireless portable receivers for the hearing impaired. The halls will have designated areas for mapping; 3D graphics will be displayed on various three-dimensional objects for digital representations. The facades of the new building are decorated with reproductions of 34 paintings by Russian painters and are included in the UNESCO World Heritage protected area.
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