MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Specialists from Russia’s State Hermitage, a museum of fine arts and culture in Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg, will take an active part in restoration of monuments of culture in Syria’s Palmyra, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the Hermitage director, said on Sunday.

"Naturally, we will take an active part, we will share our experiences. The experiences of restoration of Leningrad-St. Petersburg, our monuments and the city’s environs," he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.

Restoration of Palmyra is an accomplishable task, Piotrovsky said but warned against hasty steps. "It is quite accomplishable but we should not seek to restore what was never been there… It is necessary to examine everything what used to be standing there but what is now in ruins. And it is possible to gradually restore it," he said.