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On October 28 and 29, the city of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia hosted the 3rd International Urban Forum “Dagestan: New Development Scenarios” at the “Russia, My History” Historical Park.

The forum was dedicated to integrated development of territories, modern design, and tools to create and develop a comfortable and modern urban environment.

The organizers were the Government of the Republic of Dagestan, the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of the Republic of Dagestan. The special partner was International Exhibition of Architecture and Design ARCH MOSCOW. The intellectual partner was the Russian-French School of Heritage Preservation and Revalorization RE-School. Partners were Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism and the Higher School of Economics. The Forum’s Operator and Program Directorate was the Agency for Strategic Development CENTER.

This Forum has not just become a business platform where representatives of architectural, development, consulting and profile departments, agencies, and public organizations share experience and discuss issues of modern design, but also a meeting place for friends. Everyone was looking forward to the opening of the event. It was also attended by our foreign colleagues and friends: professor of Architecture at Belgrade University, urbanist Ljubisa Folic, chair of RuGBC green building council Guy Eames, and Austrian architect, founder of Daneshgar Architects Armin Mikhsen.

Guests of the forum were treated to a very interesting cultural program – a visit to a rehearsal of the legendary Lezginka State Academic Honored Ensemble of Dagestan. The participants were welcomed by Dzhambulat Magomedov, director general of the ensemble and Honored Artist of Russia. During the meeting, dance compositions from Zolotoy Fond of Lezginka heritage were presented, and fragments of new productions were shown.

An important event on the final day of the Forum was summing up the results of the face-to-face workshop “Seeing and loving Makhachkala in a day, or what makes up the image of the city?” of the Russian-French school of heritage preservation RE-School. Its head, Narine Tyutcheva, presented certificates to all participants of the workshop.

The agenda of the Forum will continue its development in Moscow at the ARCH Moscow Club, through professional and open discussions with leading experts in architecture, urbanism, urban design and management.

More information about the forum can be found on the official website https://urbandagestan.ru/.