In 2011, a decision was made to expand the borders of the capital of Russia in the south-west direction and increase its area by more than 2.4 times. This measure was forced and was caused by a desire to unload the center of Moscow, to bring the government and other government institutions to the periphery. In July 2012, it became known how the resettlement will be carried out and where the Russian Government will move.
The decision to relocate was made in relation to the Federation Council and the State Duma, federal executive bodies and their territorial branches. The government apparatus, the Presidential Administration, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigative Committee, the Accounts Chamber will move. In addition, the judicial authorities will move from the center of the capital: the Higher Arbitration Court, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District, the Ninth Arbitration Appeal Court, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the Judicial Department under the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the Moscow City Court.
Officials and in the new place will not be concentrated in one territory. According to a map published in the newspaper Izvestia, government agencies will be located in several areas of the former Moscow region, in a kind of "government" villages. The bulk of government agencies and federal ministries will be based in the Vnukovo area, where a government airport now operates.
Farthest from the center of the capital, at the end of the Rublevo-Uspensky highway, almost close to Zvenigorod, next to the residence of the head of state, the presidential administration will be located. The financial center will be located in Rublevo-Arkhangelsk. To the south of Moscow, in the area of Kommunarka-Ostafyevo, several power structures will be located at once. The Presidential Administration, the Moscow Government, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Audit Chamber are relocated here. Judicial authorities will move to the Govorovo district.
According to media reports, the Russian government and the presidential administration will be the first to move to new places. Land owners in those areas where it is planned to place the government, the losses will be compensated by the Moscow authorities. The decision on the fate of the buildings that are being vacated in the capital, many of which have historical significance, has not yet been finalized. Most likely, most of them will be reconstructed into hotels, which are now clearly not enough in Moscow.
