24 June. Mikhail Ivanovich Karatuev, head of the administration of the Pushkin municipal council, was conferred the title "Honorary Citizen of Pushkin Town" by deputies of the Pushkin municipal council .

June . The new exhibition halls and new rooms of the museum funds were opened after the restoration in the Zubov Wing, premisies were equipped with up-to-date devices of security alarm and fire alarm and also devices for the temperature-humidity control .

8 July. Forum of young representatives of G8 countries, so- called "Young G8 Summit", began to work at Kochubey's Villa within the bounds of Saint Petersburg Summit Meeting, .

18 September. New department of reconstructing microsurgery and surgery of hands was opened in the Research Children Orthopedic Institute named after G.I. Turner, also the renovated food center was opened in this Institute.

20 September. "St. Petersburg Center of Social Rehabilitation of Disabled People" for 140 men was opened in Aleksey Tolstoy Boulevard with participation of Governor V.I. Matviyenko.

30 September. The former military hospital (58 Parkovaya Street), after reconstruction and restoration, was accommodated for lodgins for the military, 73 apartments were accommodated at this house with total area 8,742 square metres.


6 November. The monument to V.I. Lenin designed by the sculptor V.B. Pinchuk was unveiled at the corner of Konyushennaya Street and Malaya Street ( monument was made in 1957 and earlier it was placed in the Taurida Gardens) at the place of the house of M.Silvin (v. this Chronicle of 1895).

30 November. The first stage of the 1,200 cattle animal husbandry complex for cattle rearing and the complex for the milk production were opened in the stockbreeding farm "Lesnoye".

7 December. The ceremonial laying and consecration of the laying stone of the Cathedral of St. Catherine took place. The Fund for the Reconstruction of the Cathedral of St. Catherine was established ( I.А.Sobolevsky was a president of this fund) . Company "Built-Engineering" from the group of companies "Stroisvet" realized the construction work. The archeological diggings were carried out by the Research Institute of the Material Culture of the Academy of Sciences of Russia under the supervision of N.F. Solovyova, Doctor of Sciences.A.V. Mikhalychev was the author of the reconstruction project. Aleksandr Valentinovich Krashchuk was the head of the construction work.

16 residental houses with total area 94,600 square metres were put into housing and 6 filling station were put into operation in the Pushkin district during that year. Karatuyev, Mikhail Ivanovich
Krashchuk, Aleksandr Valentinovich
Matvienko Valentina Ivanovna
Mikhalichev, Aleksey Vyacheslavovich
Pinchuk Veniamin Borisovich
Sobolevsky, I.A.
Solovyeva, N.F.
Alexey Tolstoy Boulevard/Pushkin, town
Malaya Street/Pushkin, town на пересечении С Конюшенной улицей

March. Three residental houses having 156 apartments put into housing for the accommodation of the residents of dilapidated and unsafe houses in the quarter no.7 (Sophia).

9 June. The Hall on the Island became the magnificent building of the State Museum Reserve "Tsarskoye Selo" after its restoration.

28 June. Professor S.M. Nekrasov, director of the All-Russian A.S. Pushkin Museum from 1988, Doctor of Sciences, was conferred the title "Honorary Citizen of Pushkin Town" during the special ceremony.

23 July. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On celebration of the 300-year anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin Town)" was published. Organizational Committee, vice-premier A.D.Zhukov was a head, was founded on 26 November.

1 September. New school for 825 pupils , with two swimming pools, several sports halls, up-to-date equipment of classrooms, and a new kindergarden for 190 children were opened according to the program "On celebration of the 300-yer anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin Town)" in Sophia district .

6 November. The plant "General Motors Auto" , 60,000 cars was planed to assemble at this plant during a year, was put into operation during the special ceremony in the presence of President RF D.A. Medvedev and Governor of St Petersburg V.I. Matviyenko in Shushary Settlement .

11 November. The commemorative obelisk was opened on the place of the Communal Grave of Heroes (1,000 soldiers were buried at this place in 1914-1917) in the Kazansky cemetery on the day of the 90th anniversary of the end of WWI .

19 December. New transport arterial road along Vitebsky Prospekt, from Shushary settlement to Peterburg Road, was opened, this arterial road improved , to a significant degree, the entry of automobiles moving to Pushkin Town from St Petersburg. Matvienko Valentina Ivanovna
Medvedev, Dmitry Anatolyevich
Nekrasov, Sergey Mikhaylovich
Zhukov, Aleksandr Dmitriyevich

March. The memorial plaque was opened on the house of the former Real College (now it is school no. 500), this memorial plaque was devoted to Erich Fiodorovich Gollerbach and his books "Tsarskoye Selo in Poetry", "Disconnectionable" "The City of Muse" which were reprinted by the Publishing House "Silver Age" (E.A. Gollerbach, grandson of Erich Fiodorovich Gollerbach, was compiler and the author of commentary)

About 2,000,000 men visited museums of Pushkin town every year.

30 Orthodox churches performed a religious services in the deanary of Pushkin Town (one Orthodox church worked in Dinamo Settlement until 1989 ).

24 June. The celebration of the 300-year anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin Town) took place. Gollerbakh, Ye. A.
Hollerbach Erich Fedorovich