Stoneworks
Prikaz
A prikaz (; , plural: ) was an administrative, judicial, territorial, or executive bureaucracy , office functioning on behalf of palace, civil, military, or church authorities in the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Tsardom of Russia from the 15th ...
({{langx, ru, Каменный приказ) was an administrative office in
Moscow
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(
Russia
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), which supervised the implementation of the so-called "General Plan of Moscow" (city development plan, elaborated in 1774-1775).
Established in 1775, it was located on Uspensky Lane (today's Sverchkov Pereulok, 8) in the
Sverchkov Chambers. The commander-in-chief (
governor-general
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) of Moscow was in charge of the Stoneworks Prikaz, architect P. Kozhin being its only director during its existence. All state-owned and private
brick
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and
roof tile
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factories and
stonemason
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s were transferred under the authority of the Stoneworks Prikaz. It supervised the conformity of urban construction to the 1775 plan, according to which one was allowed to build only stone houses in
Kitai-gorod
Kitay-gorod (, ), also referred to as the Great Possad () in the 16th and 17th centuries, is a cultural and historical area within the central part of Moscow in Russia, defined by the remnants of now almost entirely razed fortifications, narro ...
and
Bely Gorod
Bely Gorod (, , ) is the central core area of Moscow, Russia beyond the Kremlin and Kitay-gorod.
The name comes from the color of its defensive wall, which was erected in 1585–1593 at the behest of tsar Feodor I and Boris Godunov by architect ...
, and wooden houses on stone foundation - in
Zemlyanoy Gorod
Zemlyanoy Gorod ( rus, Земляной город, p=zʲɪmlʲɪˈnoj ˈɡorət "Earthworks City") in 17th-century Moscow was the outer ring of the city, surrounded by ramparts and a moat.
It surrounded the older moat built by Aloisio the New in ...
. Architect Kozhin drew up a plan of rebuilding and rezoning of Moscow, which would define the ways of the city's development in the late 18th - first half of the 19th century.
In 1782, the Stoneworks Prikaz was abolished, its functions being transferred to the
Board of Provision of Urban Amenities (Управа благочиния, or Uprava blagochiniya).
18th century in Moscow
1775 establishments in the Russian Empire
1782 disestablishments in the Russian Empire