City Projects Foundation
| Founded | 2012 |
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| Founders | Ilya Varlamov, Maxim Katz |
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| Field | Urbanism, urban planning, nominating candidates for municipal councils |
Key people | Maxim Katz, Ilya Varlamov, Darya Besedina, Anastasia Bryukhanova |
| Website | http://city4people.ru/ |
The City Projects Foundation (Russian: Городски́е прое́кты), also called the Urban Projects Foundation, was a Russian non-profit foundation created by Russian politician Maxim Katz and Russian journalist Ilya Varlamov in 2012, and which had ceased its activities by in March 2022. The foundation was aimed at improving the urban environment through the use of modern urbanism data. The foundation overseas several initiatives in Moscow, which have met with mixed reactions from the authorities, and it also worked in many regions of Russia.
In 2019, Daria Besedina, a member of the organization, was elected a deputy of the Moscow City Duma of the VII convocation. In 2020, the head of "Urban Projects" in Tomsk, David Avet'yan, became a deputy of the City Duma of Tomsk, and the head of "Urban Projects" in Samara, Vadim Alekseev, became a deputy of the council of the Oktyabrsky district of Samara.