The portal "Russian WikiLeaks" published photos and even posted a VIDEO tour of the VIP resort on Mount Fisht in the Republic of Adygea, which, according to unofficial information, is another "Putin's summer residence". The construction of the ski resort in Lunnaya Polyana began in 2002.
Formally, construction on the slopes of Mount Fisht is prohibited, as this is a zone of the Western Caucasus World Heritage Site. To get around the bans, the ski residence was built under the guise of a training ground for the Biosphere scientific center, which is supposed to monitor the safety of the natural reserve. Vitaly Shushkevich, partner of the Russian WikiLeaks, writes about this in his blog.
The existence of such an object on Mount Fisht was discussed even before the publication of "RuLeaks". Tourists who walked along hiking routes past the so-called "scientific center" noted that four fundamental buildings were erected on its territory, including a chalet on a mountain slope, three helipads, communication antennas, a hangar, four snow groomers for leveling ski slopes, a garage for them , there are five excavators, small and large cable cars are under construction. The area around the object is marked with shooting sectors, according to the forum of the community of natural faith "Slavia".
The experts of the joint mission of UNESCO and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), which inspected the "Western Caucasus" in April 2008, made the following recommendation to the Russian government in their report: "Ensure that the Biosphere Center, built at Lunnaya Polyana, will be used only for the management, research and monitoring of the World Heritage site or for informing visitors and will not be converted into a recreational site. "
However, as bloggers write, in fact, Lunnaya Polyana is part of the structure of the Dagomys health complex, which is under the jurisdiction of the Office of the President of Russia.
As it becomes clear from their business correspondence, only 400 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget for the construction of a highway from the village of Chernigovskoe (Apsheronsky District of Krasnodar Territory) to the testing ground of the Biosphere scientific center in 2007.
In addition, in the summer of the same year, below the Lunnaya Polyana complex in a virgin forest on the territory of the Upper Pshekha and Pshekhashkha natural monument (part of the Western Caucasus heritage site), a clearing was cut several hundred meters long and about 30 meters. The construction of the cable car began on this territory.
The volume of the cut down forest was so great that it was impossible not to notice it. On the fact of the destruction of the reserved forest, a criminal case No. 5070431 was opened, and the investigation into it was carried out by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Maikop region of the Republic of Adygea. The damage was estimated at more than 21 million rubles.
Due to construction mistakes, Lunnaya Polyana lost its natural source of water
Due to mistakes made in the design and during the execution of work, spring water has already disappeared from a local source. As a result, in 2006, before Easter, when Putin decided to fly to Lunnaya Polyana to ski, the water was brought there by helicopters.
In the statement of the International Socio-Ecological Union, published in September last year on the website Sochiweb.ru, it is noted that at the end of August 2010, the participants of the international ecological camp, going down the tourist route No. 30 from Fisht to Dagomys, observed another drop by Ka- 32 sea water at the VIP resort in Lunnaya Polyana.
“For more than two hours, with an interval of 10-15 minutes, the helicopter lifted water skins on an external sling into the mountains. At that time, thousands of hectares of forests and dozens of settlements throughout the European part of Russia were blazing fires. , the fire was extinguished with brooms, shovels and knapsack fire extinguishers ", - says the appeal of ecologists.
More than a dozen people died at a VIP construction site
During the construction, there were human casualties. Moreover, all the incidents were related to plane crashes. So, in 2003, one of the Ka-23, transporting a brigade of welders and gas cylinders to Lunnaya Polyana, crashed into a sheer rock and crashed. All nine people on board were killed.
In the same year, another Ka-32 had problems, and in order to avoid a plane crash, the crew was forced to make an emergency discharge of cargo weighing 3.5 tons from a height of about 40-50 meters from the ground. Tragically, the load landed directly on the head of one of the workers.
In September last year, another Ka-32 helicopter crashed near Mount Fisht. According to preliminary data, two people (the crew commander and the flight mechanic) were killed, one was wounded. The helicopter crew carried out work to ensure the life of the center built there.
"We demand from the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin not to violate the Constitution and laws of the Russian Federation, to fulfill the international obligations of the Russian Federation to preserve the World Natural Heritage" Western Caucasus "and to transfer to the Caucasian Reserve to create an international Center for Environmental Monitoring of the World natural heritage "Western Caucasus" recreational facility "Lunnaya Polyana", having returned the illegally confiscated lands back to the reserve ", - the ecologists addressed the leaders of the state.
Dormitory for staff
The portal "Russian WikiLeaks" published photos and even posted a VIDEO tour of the VIP resort on Mount Fisht in the Republic of Adygea, which, according to unofficial information, is another "Putin's summer residence". The construction of the ski resort in Lunnaya Polyana began in 2002.
Formally, construction on the slopes of Mount Fisht is prohibited, as this is a zone of the Western Caucasus World Heritage Site. To get around the bans, the ski residence was built under the guise of a training ground for the Biosphere scientific center, which is supposed to monitor the safety of the natural reserve. Vitaly Shushkevich, partner of the Russian WikiLeaks, writes about this in his blog.
The existence of such an object on Mount Fisht was discussed even before the publication of "RuLeaks". Tourists who walked along hiking routes past the so-called "scientific center" noted that four fundamental buildings were erected on its territory, including a chalet on a mountain slope, three helipads, communication antennas, a hangar, four snow groomers for leveling ski slopes, a garage for them , there are five excavators, small and large cable cars are under construction. The area around the object is marked with shooting sectors, according to the forum of the community of natural faith "Slavia".
The experts of the joint mission of UNESCO and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), which inspected the "Western Caucasus" in April 2008, made the following recommendation to the Russian government in their report: "Ensure that the Biosphere Center, built at Lunnaya Polyana, will be used only for the management, research and monitoring of the World Heritage site or for informing visitors and will not be converted into a recreational site. "
However, as bloggers write, in fact, Lunnaya Polyana is part of the structure of the Dagomys health complex, which is under the jurisdiction of the Office of the President of Russia.
As it becomes clear from their business correspondence, only 400 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget for the construction of a highway from the village of Chernigovskoe (Apsheronsky District of Krasnodar Territory) to the testing ground of the Biosphere scientific center in 2007.
In addition, in the summer of the same year, below the Lunnaya Polyana complex in a virgin forest on the territory of the Upper Pshekha and Pshekhashkha natural monument (part of the Western Caucasus heritage site), a clearing was cut several hundred meters long and about 30 meters. The construction of the cable car began on this territory.
The volume of the cut down forest was so great that it was impossible not to notice it. On the fact of the destruction of the reserved forest, a criminal case No. 5070431 was opened, and the investigation into it was carried out by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Maikop region of the Republic of Adygea. The damage was estimated at more than 21 million rubles.
Due to construction mistakes, Lunnaya Polyana lost its natural source of water
Due to mistakes made in the design and during the execution of work, spring water has already disappeared from a local source. As a result, in 2006, before Easter, when Putin decided to fly to Lunnaya Polyana to ski, the water was brought there by helicopters.
In the statement of the International Socio-Ecological Union, published in September last year on the website Sochiweb.ru, it is noted that at the end of August 2010, the participants of the international ecological camp, going down the tourist route No. 30 from Fisht to Dagomys, observed another drop by Ka- 32 sea water at the VIP resort in Lunnaya Polyana.
“For more than two hours, with an interval of 10-15 minutes, the helicopter lifted water skins on an external sling into the mountains. At that time, thousands of hectares of forests and dozens of settlements throughout the European part of Russia were blazing fires. , the fire was extinguished with brooms, shovels and knapsack fire extinguishers ", - says the appeal of ecologists.
More than a dozen people died at a VIP construction site
During the construction, there were human casualties. Moreover, all the incidents were related to plane crashes. So, in 2003, one of the Ka-23, transporting a brigade of welders and gas cylinders to Lunnaya Polyana, crashed into a sheer rock and crashed. All nine people on board were killed.
In the same year, another Ka-32 had problems, and in order to avoid a plane crash, the crew was forced to make an emergency discharge of cargo weighing 3.5 tons from a height of about 40-50 meters from the ground. Tragically, the load landed directly on the head of one of the workers.
In September last year, another Ka-32 helicopter crashed near Mount Fisht. According to preliminary data, two people (the crew commander and the flight mechanic) were killed, one was wounded. The helicopter crew carried out work to ensure the life of the center built there.
"We demand from the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin not to violate the Constitution and laws of the Russian Federation, to fulfill the international obligations of the Russian Federation to preserve the World Natural Heritage" Western Caucasus "and to transfer to the Caucasian Reserve to create an international Center for Environmental Monitoring of the World natural heritage "Western Caucasus" recreational facility "Lunnaya Polyana", having returned the illegally confiscated lands back to the reserve ", - the ecologists addressed the leaders of the state.
Dormitory for staff
For three years now, near Sochi, near Mount Fisht on a plateau with the poetic name Lunnaya Polyana, a VIP track has been under construction. According to rumors, this will be a ski slope for President Putin (in Sochi he used to ride on the slopes of the crowded Krasnaya Polyana). Some newspapers have already written about this secret ski track, but none of the journalists have had a chance to see the construction site with their own eyes: getting there is very difficult. And so, having heard that an illegal helicopter excursion from the foothill village could be made to the “presidential dacha”, we rushed there.
Tatiana KIREEVA,
Maxim SAMOKHIN
Near the village of Solokh-aul, the places are most picturesque. Sochi residents and holidaymakers often come here for barbecue. In the early morning hours there are already many vacationers. The silence is cut through by cargo helicopters scurrying back and forth. An assistant pilot of one of the "turntables" approaches us. “Do you want to fly? he asks. - Flight - 500 rubles.
There were 10 people willing.
In 15 minutes a pot-bellied iron "dragonfly" appears on the horizon. Lands, and we "load" strictly according to the instructions. Ahead - Mount Fisht: 2867 meters. In the early 1990s, two ski slopes were opened in this rugged area. And between them, on the Dzhigur pass, Sochi resident Grigory Gorlov built a rescue shelter for tourists "Lunnaya Polyana" - according to the name of the area on tourist maps. It is here that the “Putin's dacha” is being built now. You can't talk much in a helicopter. Shouting out the roar, the talkative assistant pilot still acts as a guide. In one day, he says, the helicopter makes at least 10 flights, transporting construction materials to Lunnaya Polyana. The three-storey house is almost ready. Nobody here any longer hides that it is being built for the president.
The construction, they tell us, is carried out by the Finnish company Konka, but mostly Turks work.
We fly up to the excursion object. While the crew is dropping building materials to the ground, we look through the hatches through the amazing Moonglade. “This one,” our guide points out to a cozy three-story chalet, “is the president’s dacha. It is from a pine log. Logs are specially brought from Karelia. There will be 12 large rooms here. The billiard room overlooks the Red Rocks. When the clearing is flooded with the moon, these rocks burn like flame, it seems that this is a scene from some science fiction movie. Just mysticism! At this time, according to legend, you can make wishes and even guess in the shadows! But, I think, Putin certainly will not guess, - the guide concludes. - Is that his wife or daughter. The guide also told us that Vladimir Kozhin, the head of the presidential affairs, and the highest ranks of the FSO have come here more than once. The very same GDP has not yet arrived. They say it will arrive when everything is ready. And they promise to complete the construction this winter. ... The helicopter makes a farewell turn over the "secret residence". When the president is skating here, you certainly won't fly over him.
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* "Fisht" is translated from the Adyghe "white head". * Mount Fisht has been considered a worship mountain since ancient times. Until the revolution, pilgrims from all over the world went to her. To this day, local residents, advising tourists, say that you need to climb its slopes with a pure heart, patience, and an unclouded mind. Otherwise, they say, the mountain will not miss.
* Fisht and its surroundings are part of the Caucasian State Biosphere Reserve. The nature on its slopes is amazingly beautiful: alpine meadows, glaciers, waterfalls (one of them is 158 meters high), bizarre rocks, caves-abysses up to 535 meters deep. One and a half kilometers to the west from the summit there is a high-mountainous lake Huko, which was considered sacred by the ancient Circassians.
WHERE STILL PUTIN RIDED
In addition to Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, the president ran in the slopes of: * the Baikal Mountains in Eastern Siberia; * In Belokurikha, Altai Territory; * At the ski resort of Abzakovo near Magnitogorsk; * On the basis of Chimbulak in Kazakhstan; * In Austrian Tyrol, together with Chancellor Wolfgang Scheessel. rode in a white cap and a red and white overalls - the color of the Austrian national flag.
Elena Rykovtseva : "Lunnaya Polyana" is a residence for Vladimir Putin, for the sake of the construction of which the unheard-of destruction of the nature of the Caucasian reserve is being carried out. What tricks did the authorities use to "legitimize" this construction site? In what ways do they achieve opportunities to lay roads to it through protected areas? We will understand this on the air.
We are in touch with us from the Krasnodar Territory - the coordinator of the Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus Andrei Rudomakha, the senior state inspector of the Caucasian Reserve Svetlana Dolmatova, a biologist, member of the Krasnodar Territory administration commission on rare endangered species listed in the Red Book, Valery Shchurov. In the studio Galina Mikhaleva, executive secretary of the Political Committee of the Yabloko party.
The story of Lunnaya Polyana for Vladimir Putin, about which very little was written in the central press, I compiled from several sources. The main reference point for me is the blog of Suren Gazaryan, an activist of the Ecological Watch, which contains the main documents on this case, plus information from the Delovoy Sochi weekly.
This wonderful saga began back in the 1980s, when Sochi rescuers built a strange-looking hut on the western slope of Mount Fisht. So Suren Gazaryan writes. They also named the area around the hut "Lunnaya Polyana". In the 1990s, former lifeguard Grigory Gorlov organized a hotel for tourists in the hut. But already in 2000, the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation began to show interest in the hotel. Later, in the bowels of this Directorate, it was decided to build a ski resort there for “the main lover of alpine skiing in the country”, therefore, by 2001, Lunnaya Polyana was taken over by the Dagomys sports and recreation complex belonging to the Administration.
Why did they want to "settle" Putin there? This is described in Delovoy Sochi: “In the winter of 2000, the Putin spouses went downhill skiing on Krasnaya Polyana for the first and only time. Vladimir Putin's second visit to the same slopes took place without unnecessary witnesses: the lift was stopped in advance, and the entire territory adjacent to it was cordoned off by officers of the Federal Security Service (FSO). Then the president climbed even higher, to the Turi mountains, where it was impossible to see him, kneading on virgin snow, even through binoculars. But in the Turi Mountains, from the point of view of the FSO leadership, there were certain problems: it is in the immediate vicinity of the state border, on one of its most difficult sections - the Abkhazian. And the terrain there is such that even a special forces division will not be able to block all routes of approach to the peacefully rolling president ...
Therefore, the leadership of the FSO and the then authorities of Sochi, puzzled by the problem of ensuring the safety of the president at the time of his skiing exercises, were looking for another place where Vladimir Putin would be pleased to ride and at the same time would not have to "put on the ears" of hundreds of people to guarantee the main skier of the country absolute inviolability.
Such a place was found at the foot of one of the most beautiful peaks of the Caucasus - at Mount Fisht, and already in 2001 the FSO and the Presidential Administration of Russia made a decision, let's say, to change the glades for Mr. Putin: instead of Krasnaya, the president was offered Lunnaya.
But then, as Suren Gazaryan writes again, all that remained was to find a way to get around the law in order to build a resort on the territory of the Caucasian Reserve, because the territory of Lunnaya Polyana belonged to the Caucasian Reserve. They gave instructions to the Ministry of Natural Resources, and such a method was found.
On December 4, 2002, Vitaly Artyukhov, whom Putin put in charge of the Ministry of Natural Resources, signed an order on the organization of a "research and technological center as part of the Caucasian State Reserve." That is, this whole ski residence began to be designated as ... a scientific center! That is why the consent of the same Ministry of Natural Resources was obtained for this construction, in general, illegal.
The state company Rosneft was also appointed as the investor of this object. Actually, two objects were under construction, which they called "in a scientific way": the residence itself ("Biosphere-1"), and the second house for the FSO, for security, for the service personnel. It is called "Biosphere-2".
And the only obstacle, the only stumbling block here was the position of the Caucasian State Reserve. They pressured him with the requirement to quickly formalize the transfer of land under the "Biosphere" for the free use of the FSUE "Dagomys". However, it didn't work out quickly. Scientists rested. And then Kozhin, the business manager, began to write complaints to Yuri Trutnev. The texts of these complaints were scanned and posted on the website:
"Yuri Petrovich, the affairs department carries out the general management of the project for the construction of the scientific center" Biosphere. "
Crushed, crushed - and finished. The lands were initially transferred to the Republic of Adygea, which dutifully transferred them to the Presidential Administration.
Here I will pause and ask Svetlana Dolmatova: do you remember the history of this struggle? Why was the Caucasian Reserve so resisted? After all, there is no reception against scrap. Well, the state said - give it back, give it back!
Svetlana Dolmatova : It's hard for me to talk about this story from its inception, I have been working in the reserve for a little over 5 years. The struggle for these lands began much earlier. Unfortunately, the result was that the reserve was forced to yield. During the survey, these lands - about 102 hectares - turned out to be outside the territory of the reserve. Although according to the forest inventory carried out in 2004, these lands were part of the reserve.
Elena Rykovtseva : Like this. We continue further. By 2007, the residence and hostel were almost finished, and intensive work began on the laying of ski slopes. For this, a clearing was cut for the cable car from the entrance to the residence to the ski lift. Illegal felling was accidentally discovered by the Adyghe foresters. According to their statement, criminal case No. 5070431 was initiated. The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs demanded this case from Adygea to Moscow, where it disappeared.
During construction, several helicopter accidents occurred at the facility. The fact is that the materials were brought there exclusively by air. It became clear that it was dangerous to use a helicopter to deliver the president there every time. Therefore, the FSO put forward a requirement to lay roads to the facility.
And again Kozhin began to push the Ministry of Natural Resources for permission for these roads. Then there was a continuous struggle. The chronicle of this struggle is reflected in Suren's blog and in the Sochi newspapers. Construction of the road was started without formal permission. It went through the reserved lands and was accompanied by barbaric "sanitary" logging within the natural monument "Upper Pshekha and Pshekhashkha rivers". "The unique forest is disfigured and resembles a battlefield."
UNESCO intervened and expressed concern about construction and illegal logging. And in 2009 the construction site was even slowed down, mothballed, but in September 2011, Vladimir Putin announced his desire to become the country's president. And right there, by coincidence, tenders were announced for the design of a new southern version of the road to Lunnaya Polyana. It all started all over again.
Andrei, what is happening today with these roads, with competitions? How legal is all this, most importantly?
Andrey Rudomakha : You have already mentioned that at first a road was built to the object from the north. Thanks to UNESCO, its intervention, this project was stopped, but we fear that not forever, but only before the Olympics. After all, the land where this road is being built was also taken out of the reserve! So they plan to complete this road, which went to the object from the north. Now, in September of this year, the construction of another road has begun, from the south, from the village of Solokh-aul. Although this section already has a forest road - Kordon Babuk-aul. This road is perfectly sufficient for the maintenance of this cordon. No other roads are needed there. But they have now announced a competition. The design of these roads alone costs 250 million rubles, and the construction costs billions.
Elena Rykovtseva : Andrey, there would be no need for roads if this house were not there!
Andrey Rudomakha : Of course of course.
Elena Rykovtseva : Without a house it is not necessary, but with a house it is necessary. How can a house without a road ?!
Andrey Rudomakha : And all the time they are masked by some kind of good tasks, that is, the road is called “a road route to the meteorological station of the Caucasian Reserve”. But there is no meteorological station there, and it is not planned. These are all the euphemisms with which they are trying to sew this road.
Elena Rykovtseva : This is the weather station, actually - "Lunnaya Polyana".
Andrey Rudomakha : Yes, apparently Lunnaya Polyana is the weather station. Formally, as you remember, this is the Biosphere Scientific Center, which belonged to the Caucasian Reserve.
Elena Rykovtseva
: But the most strange and difficult to explain in this is that the customers of two stages of this road were appointed to act ... I do not know whether to call it cynicism, blasphemy or something else, but the customers of the roads in this state competition are the Sochi National Park and the Caucasian reserve. I called yesterday to the Sochi National Park. There is a very specific person who is officially involved in this competition - Yuri Vladimirovich Esaulov. I tried to clarify the situation with him. He said that he could not explain anything on the radio, because he was a dependent person. He is hired by our wonderful state, as he said, and he is doing what he was told, namely, holding a competition. I asked to apply with an electronic digital signature to Director Penkovsky regarding the participation of someone from the Sochi National Park. We sent a digital signature from the editorial office, wrote a request on a form, but nothing was answered. We are not answered this question - why does the Sochi National Park order this road? Moreover, it does not pass through its territory at all!
Svetlana, how is it that the Caucasian Reserve is also the customer of the second stage of the road - "Biosphere-2"?
Svetlana Dolmatova : The fact is that the bulk, probably 99% of the employees of the Caucasian Reserve, learned about this fact from the "Ecological Watch" mailing list. This was as much news to us as it was to the people who receive this newsletter. About the plans to locate a weather station ... There is no weather station at the present time in the Babak-aul Kordon. Kordon Babak-aul is the final point of the road that is going to be designed. None of the staff of the scientific department of the reserve knew anything about the plans for the construction of a road or the location of the weather station. But before building such an object, which is important for observing natural processes, the issue, it would seem, must necessarily be discussed by the Scientific Council of the reserve. There were no decisions of the Academic Council on this topic. The issue was not discussed.
Elena Rykovtseva Valery, I would like you, as a biologist, to assess the construction of the residence itself and the road from the point of view of ecology. The foresters tried to protest - it did not work. The case died down, it was hidden in Moscow. How do you assess this for nature, for the forest?
Valery Shchurov
: I want to note that the interest of the leadership of our country in the territory of the region extends not only to the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve, but to many other regions that have so far remained little explored, little developed and represent wild islets of nature on the territory of the region. Now there is a massive onslaught from the regional administration, and naturally from the outside and, probably, not without the support of the Moscow authorities.
The dismemberment of the territory of the ecosystems of the reserve by a road, be it land, air, cable car or any other, for the majority of large animals migrating through the reserve, will cause great damage, not to mention the fact that the penetration into the forest of any route and people will entail the penetration of alien plant species there, which should not be on the territory of the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve.
Such a road does not belong on the territory of the reserve, especially in Russia. Somewhere, maybe in Switzerland or in the Czech Republic, to which we still have a long way to grow in self-awareness, people could use such a road, but not in our country.
Elena Rykovtseva : If there is such an opinion of scientists, ecologists, social activists, how can this opinion be taken into account in the future plans of the builders of this road?
Valery Shchurov : Formally, it has already been taken into account. I got acquainted with the terms of reference submitted for the competition. There it is written in great detail what conservation standards the designer must comply with. The only question is who will actually control the observance of these norms from the moment when this road is closed on both sides for the same controllers, such as "Ecological watch", or the same employees of the reserve. After all, it will probably be a secure facility.
Elena Rykovtseva : What a regime!
Valery Shchurov : And its construction will be carried out in the same way as the construction of security facilities on the territory of the region, for example, in Molokanovo and the city of Gelendzhik, is underway. Does any scientist really control what is happening there now after they also opened the residence of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin there? Nobody controls.
Elena Rykovtseva : Scientists are not enough for all these residences.
Valery Shchurov : And on paper you can write anything you want. But will this be translated into action? Most likely, it will not be in our Russian practice.
Elena Rykovtseva : There are already simply more residences than scientists. Therefore, it will not be possible to control.
Valery Shchurov : Fortunately, this is not the case. There are still scientists left. Not all have left for the cordon, some are still trying to live here and to care for their homeland not in words, but in deeds.
Elena Rykovtseva : Galina, you are looking at this from Moscow. Humanly, how do you feel about this situation?
Galina Mikhaleva
: First, I still want to say that Andrei Rudomakha is not alone. He is an activist of the Yabloko party, a candidate for the State Duma. he is not a representative of one, even a very important environmental organization, behind him is the party. Our chairman, Sergei Sergeevich Mitrokhin, has repeatedly visited such inspections. He was detained several times.
As for the human relationship, I think this is a complete disgrace. I believe that our leadership is acting with particular cynicism. And you gave an example of this. They just scoff at us when ecologists become customers of an object that completely destroys nature. To stop this, two things are needed. We need our political will, our civic engagement and consistency of actions. You can't fold your arms. We have several such examples. Unfortunately, there are still few of them, but they are. After all, they abandoned the construction of Gazprom City, this corn in St. Petersburg? Refused. And here, if we act consistently, I think that Vladimir Vladimirovich can calmly refuse to build this facility. After all, it is enough for him to hold one finger. Remember how he led the pipe far from Lake Baikal. She was supposed to lead along the shore of Lake Baikal ...
Elena Rykovtseva : They write to us: "The idea to use the personal palace near Gelendzhik to discredit the beloved president has failed. Now they have taken up a new dacha - Lunnaya Polyana." So what failed? The idea to use the palace as a residence failed, because the public paid attention to all this, promoted this story, showed it. In the end, I had to really sell it through 3 hands, God knows to whom. And it is still unknown, dear listener, who will be these last hands? Who, in the end, will get the palace near Gelendzhik? However, the noise raised around him still gave some fruit.
And let's try to figure it out now: how much does it all cost? First, how much is the residence itself? Rosneft, of course, does not publish these figures anywhere. Delovoy Sochi says that one can only guess how expensive it is. Because everything - from nails to sandwiches for builders - was delivered there by helicopter. “In 2003, one" turntable ", transporting a team of welders and gas cylinders to Lunnaya Polyana, crashed into the sheer rock Fisht and crashed. 10 people were killed. A year later, a bucket of another helicopter fell off its suspension and crushed a worker on the ground to death. They say that it was these accidents that were the reason that Vladimir Putin first appeared at Lunnaya Polyana only in 2006: he was going, they say, earlier, but there are such emergencies, and the president did not want them to be somehow associated with his name "
Everything was transported by airplanes, helicopters, but the cost of building the residence is still incomprehensible.
As for the cost of building the road, there are figures here. All this is more or less posted on the public procurement website. For example, the total cost of designing a new southern version of the road, announced by the Sochi National Park and the Caucasian Reserve, is 250 million rubles. The length of this road is 23 km plus 6 km of the cable car. The construction cost is currently estimated at 1.5 billion rubles. What do you say?
Galina Mikhaleva : All our roads are like a large electronic collider in Switzerland. It is clear what it is like we have throughout the economy. Consider - half is sawn, and in simple words - is stolen. Among other things, that we have no system, the Kalashnikov assault rifle turns out. Whatever we do, it turns out theft, infringement of the rights of citizens, destruction of nature and massive sawing of money. Because there is no control. This is the whole problem.
Elena Rykovtseva : Andrey, how do you assess the holding of the competition? Were there many participants in this competition? Did they fight each other in a fair fight?
Andrey Rudomakha : In fact, there was no competition. The second competition, where the customer is the National Park, has been postponed for the site that runs from Solokh-aul to the border of the Caucasian Reserve. But the competition, announced on behalf of the Caucasian Reserve, took place. Although it is written on the site that it did not take place, because there was only one application - this is the company "YuPK. Stroy". But I think, and those people who give me the information say that this company was determined in advance. Everything was done for her. The competition should, as it were, reduce costs, but this is pure fiction. We agreed in advance that such and such a company would do it. It's just that the object is not simple, apparently, not everyone is trusted with the design of this object.
Elena Rykovtseva : In this case, it will be "YuPK. Stroy" without competitors?
Andrey Rudomakha : Yes.
Elena Rykovtseva : Clear. And on the second stage, in the National Park, it is not yet known who will be appointed to win the competition.
Andrey Rudomakha : I think it will be the same company.
Elena Rykovtseva : I looked at the materials of this competition. October 31 is the last date for collecting applications. The competition is already closed.
Andrey Rudomakha : And the Sochi National Park has nothing to do with this road, because it does not go through its territory at all. She doesn't touch him in any way. The appearance of the National Park here is extremely strange. In this regard, we wrote a letter to Stepashin. It is quite obvious that an inappropriate waste of public funds is being planned.
Elena Rykovtseva : With the same success, any other organization could order the construction of this road.
Andrey Rudomakha : Sure. But the National Park does not design roads. Its task is to protect nature and only on its territory. It turns out that the National Park was turned into an enterprise for the construction of roads in a strange way in this case.
Elena Rykovtseva : Unfortunately, the same fate befell the Caucasian Reserve. In what position he puts people! The reserve itself orders a road that will destroy this reserve, which he does not need, against which he protests.
Andrey Rudomakha : There is also such a paradoxical circumstance that the annual budget of the reserve - a huge territory with a large staff - is 20 million rubles. And here only the design of a road through its territory, which he does not need, but on the contrary will damage, costs 100 million!
Elena Rykovtseva : This state will pay. This will be allocated by the Office of the President. Kozhin will give. Svetlana, will you pay for this road not out of your own pocket?
Svetlana Dolmatova : I suppose that these funds will be transferred from the budget allocated to the reserve, and then spent.
Elena Rykovtseva : On this road?
Svetlana Dolmatova : Yes, on the road. Moreover, the reserve has many problems. If we were given 100 million rubles, we are talking about the amount that was spent only on design, on project documentation ... For example, our bridge is in disrepair. And this bridge and the road are actually the only way of communication between the two cordons, which are located in the depths of the territory of the Caucasian reserve. Our housing stock is actually 90% dilapidated. Wooden houses built in the 30s-50s. That is, this money could be used to renew practically the entire housing stock of the reserve.
Elena Rykovtseva : I want our listeners to understand. Imagine that the balance of two organizations - Sochi National Park and the Caucasian Reserve - will receive huge sums that they have never seen before. Some will be given 100 million rubles, and others - 150 million rubles. But they will not be able to spend these funds as they want. They will have to invest this money exclusively in ordering the design of roads leading to this very "Biosphere" 1 and 2. Galina, assess this situation.
Galina Mikhaleva
: And what to evaluate? If it was only one place and one residence, and there are a lot of such residences in our country. This is not just a question of this road, this reserve. It is a question of how the system as a whole is organized. Who is it for?
We live in a situation of some transcendent absurdity, an endless circus tent and bullying people. That's what it is.
In connection with all these dachas of Putin, Medvedev, the patriarch, what else is happening? The law on the possible access of people to the shores is being violated. When these residences are being built, it is all surrounded by a blank fence so that people cannot use the shore. In general, each of us has the right to 20 meters of free shore. That is why we carry out the actions "Return the land and water to the people" everywhere. If there were more people who were involved in such actions, they would have to reckon with us.
Elena Rykovtseva : Andrey, this "Lunnaya Polyana", I read, is a notable tourist place. There was such a footpath Adygea-Black Sea. It is no coincidence that this hotel appeared there "Lunnaya Polyana", where people could rest during this difficult excursion. But now the same path will no longer be possible, right?
Andrey Rudomakha : Yes, "Lunnaya Polyana" was built right on the path of the traditional tourist route, which was used by hundreds of thousands of people at one time. It was a very popular route in Soviet times. He is still actively used. Now it is still possible to pass it, but with problems. One of our activists even wrote such a press release "Go quickly and don't stop." Tourists are prohibited from taking photographs when they pass by. So far, they cannot be completely banned from passing there. But when Putin or other persons come, for example, Bogdanchikov flew here more than once, the territory is blocked. There is a special trailer at the top for monitoring the territory. When FSO officers arrive, the territory is overlapped for many kilometers.
Elena Rykovtseva
: I am reading a post from one Internet user, apparently a resident of those places, who walked there a couple of years ago: "We recently walked along route 30, over Putin's dacha. The picture is depressing. It looks like a piece of an ecological path was bulldozed here, but road signs were placed - a sharp turn, movement only straight. Who is it for? For tourists, so that they do not enter, where they should not? But the dacha itself is an even greater shock. Construction is almost over. Four fundamental buildings, including a chalet. Three helipads, communication antennas, megahangars , four snow groomers for leveling ski slopes, a garage for them Five excavators A small cable car for excavators A small cable car at the completion stage The large elements still lie on the hill The terrain around the object is marked, shooting sectors All building materials are delivered by helicopters Three trips in three on Saturdays one board flies. They carry everything - cement, boards, even sand. If I'm not mistaken, a helicopter / hour costs from 30 thousand rubles. went down to Solokh-aul, always the roar of propellers in the sky, constantly. "
Alexander from Moscow.
Listener : I would like to support all environmentalists. The administration of the Krasnodar Territory in the form of Governor Tkachev under the guise of hosting the Olympic Games is simply in collusion with the Prime Minister. The money allocated for the Olympics is simply being stolen.
Elena Rykovtseva : Valery, do you feel any connection between the Olympics and the razing of the earth under the pretext of this very Olympics?
Valery Shchurov : This connection is much deeper. It began in 2005-2006, when the Russian government began to change the Forestry legislation. Since the entry into force of the new Forest Code in 2007, all of this has been given the green light. And in the future, probably, one of the tendencies is the privatization of forest lands, and now, in the light of the approaching privatization, it is necessary to occupy the best plots, which is being actively done in the most valuable territories of the Krasnodar Territory and unique places of the Russian Federation. I think that everything will go much deeper and further into the history of Russia than the notorious Sochi Olympics. We are now discussing road construction on the lands of the Caucasian Reserve. But we have a wonderful project - the Krasnodar-Dzhubga road, which is also an Olympic facility, the Don M4 highway. Two years ago, it probably ran out of money. They built it very well and zealously, blocked the entire holiday season, and abandoned it two years ago. But this is the central road leading to the Black Sea from Russia. So maybe these 150-200 million still spend on completing this road at least to the village of Dzhubga, put markings there, remove the 40 m / h signs, and not build roads for someone in the wild mountains, in the reserve, in the Sochi National Park ?!
Elena Rykovtseva : It's not built for people, but for one person. Rashid from Kazan.
Listener : Each reserve is probably created for something. Either unique plants that are listed in the Red Book grow there, or the animal world. Why aren't international organizations involved?
Elena Rykovtseva : Svetlana, after all, UNESCO has intervened several times over the years, and even somehow UNESCO managed to influence this situation. What now?
Svetlana Dolmatova : Construction of the “road to the meteorological station” is not the only problem that the Caucasian Reserve has faced recently. It's no secret that the construction of a ski complex is being lobbied. UNESCO, of course, was initially against the construction of any objects, because this is the territory of the reserve, where the construction of any linear, non-linear and other structures is still prohibited by current legislation. UNESCO is against the development of territories that have received international status at the moment.
Elena Rykovtseva : And the influence of these organizations? Well, they are against it. So what? Is it taken into account somehow?
Svetlana Dolmatova : It seems that UNESCO is not an authority for the government of the Russian Federation. It seems that, unfortunately, this is the case.
Galina Mikhaleva : No international organizations are authority for our leadership. After Vladimir Vladimirovich was in second place on the Forbes list as the most influential people in the world, this will be even less important. After all, the principle of realpolitics prevails in the world now. Everyone agrees on business, on interests. In this case, unfortunately, especially when we give credit to the European Union, when they are dependent on our energy resources, winter is just around the corner, they don’t even pay attention to any government organizations, and there’s nothing to say about public organizations.
Andrey Rudomakha : UNESCO has indeed played a very large role in this situation. As already mentioned, it was thanks to UNESCO that the northern road to Lunnaya Polyana was stopped. And after all, there is a decision by UNESCO for Lunnaya Polyana itself, and it is quite tough. UNESCO advised the Russian government to use this site only for scientific and monitoring purposes, and not to use it for recreational purposes.
Elena Rykovtseva : But it's not used yet, is it?
Andrey Rudomakha : No, it is being used. Vladimir Vladimirovich rests there occasionally. There is information that Dmitry Anatolyevich was there.
Elena Rykovtseva : As president, he still has the right.
Andrey Rudomakha : The position of UNESCO is very clear and clear on this issue, but so far it has been ignored. And when the last visit of the UNESCO mission was, they were not allowed by helicopter closer than 2 km to the "Lunnaya Polyana". They were not even allowed to look at what was happening with the Lunnaya Polyana. Because it is obvious that the previous UNESCO recommendations are ignored by Russia.
Elena Rykovtseva : Despite the fact that at that moment the leaders were not in Lunnaya Polyana, were they still not allowed in?
Andrey Rudomakha : Yes. Construction was just going on there. UNESCO stated its position on this issue in 2008. It said it was not normal. But nothing has changed. But in order to somehow hush up this scandal, they are now not even letting UNESCO into Lunnaya Polyana.
Elena Rykovtseva : Perfectly! We are called by Zufar Achilov from Gelendzhik, a human rights activist.
Listener : I also participated in these inspections of palaces and dachas of both Putin and Tkachev this year. As a result of one of the inspections, I, Suren Ghazaryan and two more of our activists were detained for trumped-up violations. This is how the authorities deal with those citizens who are trying to ...
Elena Rykovtseva : They detained you so that you don't stick your nose where you don't need to, right?
Listener : Of course, in order to stop, to beat off our hands, but also heads, so that we do not climb anywhere, do not meddle. This is how our government straightens out.
Elena Rykovtseva : What lessons have you learned for yourself? Will you continue climbing or will you not take risks?
Listener : Of course, I will take risks. After I spent 5 days there in horrible conditions, I will not forgive this government. The fact is that I heard that here Putin works like a slave in galleys, moreover, in gold. He must rest. But he, I heard, has a manic desire to preserve his health. There are rumors that he comes to work only at 3 pm, and gets up at 7 am. And all this time he has either saunas, or pools, or massages, or something else. And he, apparently, has the same maniacal desire to build these palaces in the amount of 26 objects throughout Russia, allegedly in the cleanest ecological places of our homeland. It is necessary to create some kind of commission, perhaps a deputy, parliamentary commission, in order to deal with this outrage immediately.
Elena Rykovtseva : Galina, is such a commission even possible?
Galina Mikhaleva : In our parliament ?!
Elena Rykovtseva : When we examined the number of palaces, how many are being built, it was already clear that the person who builds so many of them will never leave power in all the coming years. So what about the commission, Galina?
Galina Mikhaleva : Well, listen! Our parliament does everything that comes down to it from the government, from the presidential administration. This is such a stamping machine. Therefore, our parliament will never seriously investigate such cases, because it is afraid for its seats.
Elena Rykovtseva : We conclude on this the "Hour of the Press" program on the waves of Radio Liberty. We will follow this story.
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The experts of the joint mission of UNESCO and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), which inspected the "Western Caucasus" in April 2008, made the following recommendation to the Russian government: "Ensure that the Biosphere Center, built at Lunnaya Polyana, will be used only for the management, research and monitoring of the World Heritage site or for informing visitors and will not be converted into a recreational site. "
However, as bloggers write, in fact, Lunnaya Polyana is part of the structure of the Dagomys health complex, which is under the jurisdiction of the Office of the President of Russia. The customer for the construction is OAO NK Rosneft. The documents on the organization of the construction were coordinated between the presidential administration Vladimir Kozhin and the Minister of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev.
As it becomes clear from their business correspondence, only 400 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget for the construction of a highway from the village of Chernigovskoe (Apsheronsky District of Krasnodar Territory) to the testing ground of the Biosphere scientific center in 2007.
In addition, in the summer of the same year, below the Lunnaya Polyana complex in a virgin forest on the territory of the Upper Pshekha and Pshekhashkha Natural Monument (part of the Western Caucasus heritage site), a clearing several hundred meters long and about 30 meters wide was cut. meters. The construction of the cable car began on this territory.
The volume of the cut down forest was so great that it was impossible not to notice it. On the fact of the destruction of the reserved forest, a criminal case No. 5070431 was opened, and the investigation into it was carried out by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Maikop region of the Republic of Adygea. The damage was estimated at more than 21 million rubles.
After the investigators had the need to interrogate the high-ranking officials who had given the order to hack, the criminal was unexpectedly demanded from Adygea by the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: he was taken to the ministry, where, apparently, it was hushed up.
Novaya Gazeta wrote about the resort back in 2007, claiming that it was being built by the Office of the President (then still Vladimir Putin). However, the ministry's press secretary, Viktor Khrekov, said that "he had not heard anything about the construction of the Lunnaya Polyana ski resort in the Caucasus."
Due to construction mistakes, Lunnaya Polyana lost its natural source of water
Due to mistakes made in the design and during the execution of works, spring water has already disappeared from a local source. As a result, in 2006, before Easter, when Putin decided to fly to Lunnaya Polyana to go skiing, water was brought there by helicopters.
In the statement of the International Socio-Ecological Union, published in September last year on the website Sochiweb.ru, it is noted that at the end of August 2010, the participants of the international ecological camp, going down the tourist route No. 30 from Fisht to Dagomys, observed another drop by Ka- 32 sea water at the VIP resort in Lunnaya Polyana.
“For more than two hours, with an interval of 10-15 minutes, the helicopter lifted water skins on an external sling into the mountains. At that time, thousands of hectares of forests and dozens of settlements throughout the European part of Russia were blazing fires. , the fire was extinguished with brooms, shovels and knapsack fire extinguishers ", - says the appeal of ecologists.
More than a dozen people died at a VIP construction site
During the construction, there were human casualties. Moreover, all the incidents were related to plane crashes. So, in 2003, one of the Ka-23, transporting a brigade of welders and gas cylinders to Lunnaya Polyana, crashed into a sheer rock and crashed. All nine people on board were killed.
In the same year, another Ka-32 had malfunctions, and in order to avoid a plane crash, the crew was forced to make an emergency discharge of a cargo weighing 3.5 tons from a height of about 40-50 meters from the ground. Tragically, the load landed directly on the head of one of the workers.
In September last year, another Ka-32 helicopter crashed near Mount Fisht. According to preliminary data, two people (the crew commander and the flight mechanic) were killed, one was wounded. The helicopter crew carried out work to ensure the life of the center built there.
"We demand that the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin not violate the Constitution and laws of the Russian Federation, fulfill the international obligations of the Russian Federation to preserve the World Natural Heritage" Western Caucasus "and transfer natural heritage "Western Caucasus" recreational facility "Lunnaya Polyana", having returned the illegally confiscated lands back to the reserve ", - the ecologists addressed the leaders of the state.
