A typical event of this sort, with most of local arts and crafts community present. New was a noticeable number of the police, and people with newly fashionable “patriotic” symbolics, such as this gentleman with “Glory to great Stalin” T-shirt AND an Orthodox cross on his bag, a combination that exemplifies present-day Russia:

It turned out the unfinished hotel did not burn fully, only one of its sections. Entrances are now boarded up, and “no entry” signs further discourage those wanting to enter.