Clause 4 · entry 2
Normative orientations. Procedures are in Clauses 5–12. The register with stable identifiers is Annex C, C.9. The cross-cutting principles of 4.1 apply in every group.
Draft national standard “Sustainable development of historic settlements. General requirements”, edition v7 of 2 October 2026. Until it is published by Rosstandart this is not an approved GOST R. The text is a guide to the draft, not a legal opinion and not a substitute for Federal Law No. 73-FZ or the state historical and cultural expert review. This English text is a translation of the Russian draft, not an adopted ISO standard.
They sit above the groups: the balance of people, environment and economy, heritage as a vector, adaptability, conditions rather than prescription.
The sustainable development objectives of historic settlements are formed on the basis of a balance of the interests of people (improvement of the quality of life of the population), the environment (preservation and development of the historic environment and the natural setting…
Mechanism: 5, 8, 9
Cultural heritage is positioned not as a "public burden" or a sectoral encumbrance, but as a "common good" and an independent vector of sustainable development of equal standing with people, the environment and the economy (4.1.1).
Mechanism: 5, 7, 8, 9
Sustainable development is regarded as a continual process of modelling, adaptation and improvement.
Mechanism: 5, 9–12, 11.6
Sustainable development measures shall be aimed at creating favourable conditions (infrastructural, legal, institutional) for the development of the territory, and not at a detailed prescription of the functional use of objects and of the conduct of business.
Mechanism: 5, 9, 10
When decisions are taken on the development of a territory, the interests of future generations are taken into account, and the potential for the long-term development of historic settlements is preserved and built up.
Mechanism: 5, 9, 12
The person as the subject of development, the landscape as the human environment, identity, participation, social protection.
Territorial development is realized not only through the transformation of the environment, but also through the purposeful development of human capital: culture and heritage act on the person, and not on sectors.
Mechanism: 5, 7, 9, 11
The landscape is recognized as an essential component of people's surroundings and as the basis of the quality of the living environment.
Mechanism: 5, 7, 9
The cultural customs, practices and values of interested parties are identified and taken into account (socio-cultural analysis).
Mechanism: 5, 7, 8, 9, 12
The active participation of interested parties (residents, business, non-profit organizations in the field of heritage, the professional community, public authorities) in planning, decision-making and implementation is ensured — from objective-setting to monitoring.
Mechanism: 5, 8, 9, 11, 12
The protection regime creates an asymmetry of burdens on the owners and residents of historic territories.
Mechanism: 5, 7, 9, 10, 12
Priority of preservation, authenticity, layering, regeneration, load on historic territories.
Priority is ensured for measures to preserve cultural heritage objects and the subject of protection of the historic settlement when decisions are taken on the development of the territory.
Mechanism: 5, 7, 9, 10, 12
Authenticity is a factor of the resilience and the demand for the urban environment: an authentic space is perceived as safe and tested by time, forming effects of social identity that are significant for the attractiveness of the territory and for business in the sphere of servi…
Mechanism: 6, 7, 9, 12
Historical and cultural value is used as a basis for establishing protection regimes, prioritizing development measures and forming requirements for urban-planning regulations.
Mechanism: 5, 7, 9
The heritage of a historic settlement includes interrelated layers: the historic built fabric and planning structure, natural elements and the landscape, intangible practices and social ways of life, visual links and panoramas.
Mechanism: 6, 7, 9, 12
Practices, ways of life, crafts, traditions and the historical experience of the development of the territory are identified and taken into account, including those that do not at present have a material expression.
Mechanism: 5, 6, 7, 9, 12
The protection of cultural heritage objects and of the historic environment includes the protection not only of the objects themselves, but also of their setting, urban-planning context, visual openings, panoramas and spatial links.
Mechanism: 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, Annex D
The quality of any intervention in the historic environment is regarded as a multidimensional characteristic (environmental, cultural, social, economic).
Mechanism: 9, 10, 12
Heritage management is regarded as the management of change with the preservation of value: a strict fixing of the elements to be preserved (the subject of protection) provides the basis, beyond which continuous development may occur.
Mechanism: 5, 7, 9, 10
A directive instruction to preserve the subject of protection is not sufficient: elements of protection degrade without organizational, financial and meaningful conditions.
Mechanism: 9, 10, 11, 12
Organizational, legal and other conditions are created that contribute not only to the preservation but also to the systematic building up of the historical and cultural potential of the historic settlement
Mechanism: 5, 6, 7, 9
Each historic territory has a limit of load; exceeding it leads to the degradation of objects, the loss of authenticity and the displacement of residents.
Mechanism: 6, 7, 9, 12
A system of measures is formed that is aimed at restoring the integrity of the compositional structure of the historic urban landscape and of the natural setting.
Mechanism: 7, 9, 10
The preservation of cultural heritage and the sustainable development of the territory are regarded as a single process, and not as competing tasks.
Mechanism: 5, 8, 9, 11
First the demonstrated value (4.4.1–3), then integration into investment processes (4.4.4–7).
Demonstration of the contribution of cultural heritage to the development of territories and of human capital is ensured.
Mechanism: 5, 7, 8, 9
The fulfilment of obligations to the past — cultural heritage — forms the trust of investors and of society in the fulfilment of obligations to the future within investment and other programmes for the development of the territory.
Mechanism: 8, 9, 11, 12
The development of territories and sectors with reliance on historical experience (including intangible experience) is accepted more naturally by society.
Mechanism: 5, 8, 9
The adaptation of cultural heritage objects for modern use (3.1.17) and the adaptive use of historic buildings that are not cultural heritage objects (3.2.6) are ensured, with minimal intervention in the authentic material fabric and with a functional content that secures economi…
Mechanism: 5, 7, 8, 9, 10
A hierarchical system of investment passports is formed (from the level of a monument to the level of the historic settlement).
Mechanism: 6, 7, 9, 10, 11
The sustainability of the territory requires measurement of the economic and cultural (non-market) value of heritage and justification of the sources of financing; project solutions cannot be based on a calculation that assumes unsecured sources.
Mechanism: 7, 9, 10, 11
Investment planning is an integral element of sustainable development.
Mechanism: 7, 9, 10, 11
Cascading of objectives, scenarios, coordination of protection and development, indicators, digitalization, AI-readiness.
Sustainable development objectives shall be linked to the values of residents, the values (principles) of the development of the city (historic settlement) and of the region, reflecting the mission of the historic settlement in the regional context.
Mechanism: 5, 8, 9, 11
The assessment of the current state of the territory and the forecast of potential states are carried out by fields of sustainable development, with the identification of the causes of adverse states and the formulation of hypotheses to explain them; the assessment system shall m…
Mechanism: 6, 7, 8, 9, 12
Decisions on the development of infrastructure and territories shall proactively take into account forecast technological and social changes (including new models of mobility, a change in the structure of the vehicle fleet, the introduction of unmanned technologies, and others).
Mechanism: 6, 7, 9, 12
The powers to identify, determine and record value characteristics (the subject of protection) and to regulate the development of the territory are separated.
Mechanism: 5, 7, 9, 10, 11
An integrated approach to sustainable development management is applied, ensuring the coordination of actions in different spheres and the consistency of decisions at different levels of management.
Mechanism: 5, 9–12
Decisions are justified by the data of the integrated assessment, of monitoring and of analysis.
Mechanism: 6, 7, 9, 12
A system of sustainable development indicators is formed and used for monitoring the achievement of objectives, assessing the effectiveness of measures and taking management decisions, including a quality matrix by stages of the life cycle (planning, design, construction, operati…
Mechanism: 5, 9, 12, Annex B
Processes of continual improvement of the sustainable development management system are ensured on the basis of the monitoring of indicators, the analysis of results and the adjustment of objectives and measures.
Mechanism: 9–12
Leadership of the management is ensured in the introduction of sustainable development decisions, and sustainable development documents are linked to the formalized assessments of the activity of governing bodies that are in force on the date of development of the documentation.
Mechanism: 5, 11, 12
Guarantees of transparency and accountability are a condition of trust and of the long-term sustainability of heritage management.
Mechanism: 11, 11.6, 12
Sustainable development documentation should be formed in a state of AI-readiness: the structure and data of the documentation make it possible for an information system, including one based on artificial intelligence, to carry out the procedures of Clauses 4–12.
Mechanism: 5–12, Annex C