Employees "Grabara" complained the Director of Putin and Medinsky
ARTinvestment.RU   18 января 2018

Nearly 70 team members GRC behalf Grabar, one of the major expert organizations in Russia, have signed an open collective appeal in which he expressed dissatisfaction with the course Director Sergeyev. Today has been no official reaction to the letter

a scan of the treatment without pages and pages of signatures were posted on Facebook Eugenia Perova. To the third person claim to the Director in the allegorical text was worded, and because not all is clear. There are accusations of unnecessary commercialisation, secrecy of decision-making, the destruction of traditions, accusations of intolerable moral and psychological climate. Of concrete — the low level of salaries of specialists-реставраторов. In particular, the letter in bold that the salary of the restorer of the highest category is twenty-one thousand rubles. That is like the teachers in the suburbs (alas). However, this does not include premiums and co-payments, as the official document below.

Dmitry Sergeev — man in Grabarek relatively new. He was was appointed Director of the Center just over a year ago. A graduate of the Moscow aviation Institute, he came to the post the Deputy Director of the Department of cultural heritage Ministry of culture, and before that was Director of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation and worked at ROSIZO. Director Dmitry Leonidovich Sergeyev was replaced by the honored and beloved in the team of Alexander Nikolayevich Lesovoy, who was appointed the Deputy Director for restoration work. And it would be strange, if "the Vikings" immediately fell in love. In the first year of operation Sergeev headed for training young professionals-реставраторов, opened the "Iconotheca A. N. Ovchinnikova," in the former workshop of Vera Mukhina and finally announced the renaming of the GRC in the "Center Grabar" (as it is really called and all). But, as the number of signatories-жалобу, not the whole team Grabara believes leadership initiatives timely and useful. The flames of opposition were fanned dismissal of Elena Valeryevna Surovoi — employee with 30-летним experience, which is respected in the team.

in short, the treatment caused a lot of noise. Yesterday it is actively discussed in the networks. And today was followed by an official document press-службы "Grabara". Below in italics AI brings his text completely:

In connection with spread in social networks the treatment of members of the GRC them. academician I. E. Grabar Centre's management considers it necessary to clarify the situation.

Described in this appeal, the claims of the employees do not have a real reason and are more emotional, and sometimes fantastic character.

the Renaming of the Center, depriving him of the status of all-Russian and radical change in the activity of the impossible and was never in the plans of the management. But along with the full name GRC them. Academician I. E. Grabar in a formal appeal is scheduled to enter the abbreviated name of the Grabar Centre, which has long operated in the exhibition and publishing projects as a more convenient and easy for perception. Rebranding of Centre — long overdue. Moving forward, the development of and interaction with today's society is impossible no changes in presentation of Center in the information space. Paying tribute to traditions of professionalism and preservation of the cultural heritage that has developed over a hundred years, the Centre should evolve. With such a need to regularly face a major organization in the sphere of culture, have a long history, and recent rebranding, carried out by the Tretyakov gallery, can serve as a good example.

This concept was supported by the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation at the presentation of the development Centre 29 Nov 2017. As well as the idea of development within the Centre of the educational direction. A unique database of the Center was the country's best specialists — perfect place where valuable skills can be transferred to the young generation that will continue the work of preserving cultural values in the future, not only in the Center, but in the Museum workshops across the country.

Over the past year, the Center increased the number of exhibition and publishing projects. In 2017, there have been four exhibitions with the participation of Metropolitan and regional museums and private collections: "Graphics N. Feshin after restoration in Grabar Centre", "Meletovo. Time Solutions", "Collection Sapozhnikovykh after restoration in Grabar Centre", "Fans of the Museum-усадьбы Ostankino after restoration in Grabar Centre". Each had published scholarly catalogue. The Exhibition "Meletovo. Time solutions" represented the Russian school of restoration at the stand of the Ministry of culture at the international forum of restorers in Shanghai.

Restoration equipment is purchased centrally by the Center and cannot be purchased on the salary of the restorer. The claims of the authors of the letter, concerning wages contain a large share of guile. The average salary is 21 000 rubles, but all the conservators Center receive quarterly bonuses, which allocates a grant by the Ministry of culture, and the percentage of the completed contract work, which for 2017 increased by 30 %.

fire extinguishing Systems, video surveillance and alarm systems in the Centre are working properly. At the end of 2017 was fixed a short-term failure of the surveillance system, which was quickly eliminated.

Only one fact is mentioned in the text of the appeal true — dismissal of Deputy General Director for personnel management and administrative-хозяйственной the work of Surovoi Elena Valeryevna. The decision to dismiss was taken after a series of egregious excess of its authority and violations of labor discipline, fixed by the Commission. However, this conflict can be resolved exclusively within the legal field, and if you need — in court.

the petition was signed by 75 employees of the Center, which is less than a third of the labor collective.

the Grabar Centre is an independent self-governing organization, it is a Federal government Agency under the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation, and all conflicts can be solved in the framework of current legislation.

Why all the conflict and emergency in the "Geburah" at art-рынке perceived with alarm? Here everything is clear. GRC behalf Grabar today one of the main organizations doing qualitative examination of works of art, whichtrust auctions and other market participants. If there will be trouble @all mdas will be tight. So we wish all colleagues a hurry to settle.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: grabar.ru, facebook.com, rbc.ru, artinvestment.ru, mkrf.ru, forum.artinvestment.ru