Oleg Shurygin

. ​About Uzbekistan With Love

The restoration of the National Pavilion of Uzbekistan at VDNKh, completed in 2025, was at times like a detective story and at times like a drama. Many architectural details seemed to have been irretrievably lost, the 25-meter-high rotunda was on the verge of collapse, and the nuances of the decoration had to be reconstructed from split-second frames of a color documentary film. But the MV-PROEKT architectural bureau managed to untangle this web of problems and literally reassemble one of the most graceful buildings at VDNKh.

. ​Full-Cycle Art

A school requires order, regulations, and discipline, while creativity calls for freedom, experimentation, and improvisation. In the building of the Siberian Higher School of Musical and Theatrical Arts in Kemerovo, MV-PROEKT made an attempt to reconcile these contradictions: to contain a complex and ever-changing creative life within a strict, rationally organized architectural form.

Alyona Kuznetsova. The Voice of the Amur

MV-PROJECT has won a competition for the façades of the Khabarovsk Regional Academic Musical Theater. The architects took a bold approach, proposing a striking wave-like envelope inspired by the waters of the Amur, along with landscaped rooftop terraces. The concept won an absolute majority of the public vote. We take a closer look at the proposal, its feasibility, and its rich imagery, which invites associations with the work of Ivan Aivazovsky and Katsushika Hokusai.

Elena Petukhova, Julia Tarabarina. MB-PROJECT: “Every new project is a challenge”

In this issue, we speak with Dmitry and Oleg Shurygin, founders of the company MV-PROJECT, which has extensive experience in designing theater and entertainment buildings as well as working with cultural heritage sites.