The issues of ensuring the preservation of the historical cities urban heritage by means of integrated improvement with the networks and grids reconstruction, including architectural planning, engineering, landscape, geoecological, restoration and other preservation ensuring methods of the cities historical heritage are considered on an interdisciplinary basis. The performed initiative study corresponds to the current and planned national projects goals and state programs in the field of urban planning, cultural heritage preservation and engineering communications modernization in 2025–2027, as well as the President of the Russian Federation.V.V. Putin instructions to the Government of the Russian Federation, following the results of the Address to the Federal Assembly for 2024 to strengthen attention to the cultural heritage preservation and to develop a mechanism of investors involved in cultural heritage site preservation support. The article considers the experience and modern tasks of ensuring the Moscow’s natural and historical heritage preservation by urban planning means, including issues of planning regulation of the territories usage, improvement, landscaping, and network reconstruction. In the first part of the article, based on the author’s experience, an interpretation of two important normative concepts is proposed – “natural and historical heritage zones” and “disturbed historical environment”, their meaning is revealed and their implementation in modern urban planning practice of a natural and ecological framework forming with Moscow natural and historical parks inclusion are shown. The problems of improving the methodology of specially protected natural areas system transformations into specially protected green areas are shown. Based on the results of the field surveys, an assessment of the quarters inside the Garden Ring “historical environment disturbance” is given.
Belyaeva et al. (Tue,) studied this question.