Within the framework of this article, a pre-project urban planning analysis is carried out, including a situational analysis at the level of the St. Petersburg agglomeration, the Vsevolozhsky municipal district; a comprehensive analysis at the level of the Sverdlovsk urban settlement, the village of Novosaratovka and the territories adjacent to it. In result of the synthesis of the main characteristics of the territory, identified by the comprehensive urban planning analysis, a scheme of the modern use of the territory is drawn up. A unified «sub-center model» has been developed on the example of Novosaratovka with the possibility of its application in the integrated development of identical territories in the peripheral regions of the St. Petersburg agglomeration. The sub-center model is represented by four interrelated components: ecological (the basis for other components), public, comfortable living environment and a modern system of transport mobility. The disclosure of such an important component of the model as a public is considered as part of the formation of a conceptual proposal for the development of the territory of the proposed city center of the sub-center - the village of Novosaratovka (according to the author's proposal). The prerequisites of the concept and its structure (framework) – «cores» and connections in such areas as social and business (business, scientific clusters) and socio-cultural (cultural, sports clusters) with their characteristics are described. A town-planning design proposal for the territory of the city center has been presented.

The article presents carried-out research work on the artistic heritage of Vasily Stasov (the buildings that identify to the greatest degree the architect’s stylistic techniques) as determining the main trends in the development of Russian architecture from the end of the 18th to the mid-19th century, namely, the “High Classicist” style, which was predominant during this period, and the sources of historicism. In order to minimize subjectivity when analyzing the evolution of Russian architecture following the main buildings designed by Vasily Stasov, the principle of this assessment was formed. Within the framework of the creative heritage of Vasily Stasov, research was made of: a complex of shopping malls, the interior of a palace (using the example of a ceremonial office), triumphal arches (gates) (four examples), a complex of stables (two examples), food warehouses (two examples), a complex of barracks, restoration work (by the example of a cathedral in an architectural ensemble), cathedrals (two examples) and a church, a tenement house, and a palace ensemble.