Due to claims of the Yaroslavl diocese about returning objects of religious function, the Culture Department of the Yaroslavl Region is developing a program on resettlement of museums from former churches and monasteries.

Moscow authorities intend to create Tallinn Park on the bank of the Moskva River in 2013.

The action "The pure ice of the Lake Baikal" will open the volunteer season on the Lake Baikal in 2013.

More than 600 hectares of land in the Tula Region are transferred to the category of specially protected natural areas.

On 4th – 17th March 2013 the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Moscow jointly with the city police carried out the first stage of “Primrose-2013” plan. Its goal is to find out and prevent the cases of illegal picking, smuggling and selling of rare and disappearing plants registered in the Red Book of Russia and the Red Book of Moscow.

The administration of the Moscow Zoo has explained that for the past two years the price has remained the same, although the costs of keeping the animals, including feeding, have risen dramatically.

The State Russian Museum in Petersburg will carry out a large-scale restoration of a lodge of Peter I and his Summer Palace that will cost about billion rubles.

Mechanized parking lots with around 100 car places each will be built right in historical buildings recognized as architecture monuments in the center of Moscow.

A national park will be created in the territory of the Moscow-area Arkhangelskoye memorial estate and lands adjoining to it.

Spaso-Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery of Imperial Porcelain Plant was located on a site in Nevsky District of Petersburg from 1731.