
— The name itself – “Palace of Farmers” have defined the thematic. Farmers work is to cultivate the nature, and keeping it in order, to feed the people. The tree of life in the middle of the building symbolizes the nature cultivated by the farmers.

The creation of the tree faced many difficulties, at first the tree had to be formed by professional sculptors and then the pieces had to be joined in such a way, so that the seals remain invisible. The tree itself is a complex engineering structure, during its creation we had to consider a lot of factors: wind loads, thermal expansion, constructive rigidity etc. For the creation of the Tree we had to consider a lot of factors.

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In our opinion the most complex part of the building is its cupola, isn’t it?

— Yes it is. Frankly speaking we had a lot of arguments on the possibility to “spin” the structure of the cupola, make it spiral. Finally everything was resolved with the aid of computer technologies and skills of professional engineers. And that was pure enthusiasm as well. If you set a complex task, people just get sucked into the idea and resolve everything. This is amazing!

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Leonid Grigorievich can you please tell us what will be the fate of the territory by the building? Are you planning anything?

— Yes, on this place we are planning a large park. We have designed our own park, because we see the building and the park as a single organism. They shall be in accordance with each other. If the park, apart from the plants will contain classical architecture, trust me, it will be very interesting.

In order to sum up I would like to say the following: I have always thought that classics is very simple. A lot of works were written and a lot of stuff done – you just have to look and do. But just recently I have understood that in order to create classics, you have to love it, because when you love something, you treat it seriously, look deeper and understand it’s secrets, but only at the end of this path you deserve to say your own word.