Approaching the metro lobby, I saw how the hefty chest of the Culture Ring station grew day by day, and Zubovsky Boulevard almost always crossed to look nearby. The final Germans, who looked peacefully and pretty, were engaged in finishing work. No negative emotions to them in the crowd were observed for onlookers: people are like people. Shortly before September, Aunt Katya grabbed me with her mother when she was heading on her usual visit to her old friend Corina.

Pomerantsev Lane [1] I am deprived of an infant super -memory, so only four short "slides" are stored in the occipital part of the brain. The first is a small cherry tree in front of the porch. If it is remembered by the little one, then, given my growth, it is very tiny. A few bright berries. I break one of them, and a familiar man scolds me. It is easy to calculate that it could only be Uncle Borya - Tetkin’s husband, because in Tashkent we huddled next to them.

About Mishelevka and other single-industry towns Print Vyacheslav Glazychev A pretentious plot called “Monotowns” arose in Russia three years ago. The concept of “monotown” included a bunch of urban-type settlements like this Michelevka, where a certain number of people really live, where either the ore resources have run out, or it has become unprofitable to develop them, and which simply have no reason for further existence... This is a world problem. There's nothing new here.

What is Mountain Altai? In fact, this is an invented laboratory. Social Laboratory of the Russian Federation. The city of Gorno-Altaysk stubbornly and consistently consumes federal subsidies for capital construction. Now a huge new building of the local history museum is being completed there. Not bad. Very large. At the top of this museum there will be a mini-pavilion for a poor Chinese princess, who was traveling to someone, but did not reach.

* 1 “Domestic Notes”: Tell us about the expansion of Moscow. Whose idea is this, what is the interest of those who promoted it? Vyacheslav Glazychev: The expansion of Moscow is a fact. Physical. Long time ago. With a huge history. But de jure this is not formalized in any way in the history of our wonderful country. For 15 years nothing worked. During this time, Moscow inflated land and real estate prices to heavenly heights.

I sank Bashkiria very well, where, now, with the new leadership, all kinds of completely advanced modernizers raised the head of all kinds, which come up with some interesting financial, financial-organizational schemes, and the prosecutor’s office immediately jumps on them, because it is “unusual”. But this is actually a world practice.

Kondopoga is a place widely known for its long-standing scandal - the restaurant massacre. A monotown, by the way, in its purest form. The paper mill, which operates largely for export, has undertaken some environmental upgrades. The lip of Lake Onega, which several years ago was covered with some kind of nasty green foam, has cleared up. I saw it. In Soviet style, the plant at one time deployed an absolutely gigantic infrastructure, which is now impossible to maintain.

Perm is an adultery case. Ex-Governor of the Perm Territory Oleg Chirkunov is an extraordinary person. He was well played by Sergey Gordeev, a member of the Federation Council from the Perm Territory. A person in love with architecture, by the way. Gordeev’s influence was initially very significant. The third character is Marat Gelman. He has his own funny trouble: how to make some changes through a provocation in the cultural community. I can say right away that he succeeded the main change.

Khanty-Mansiysk is a seemingly impossible place. At first, as in all this swamp in the West Siberian Lowland, it was necessary to pour in an enormous amount of sand in order to build a city without drowning. One of the most interesting governors in Russia was there for a good 20 years. Alexander Vasilievich Filipenko. The man is local, but clearly comes from long-time exiles, judging by the purity of his Russian speech. This doesn't happen by chance.

Petrozavodsk is an incident, because it is a small city that had the status of the capital of the Union Republic. Its infrastructure looks like a large jacket on a sharply losing weight person. The population is 240 thousand people. However, there is a conservatory, the second after St. Petersburg for the entire northwest. With an excellent hall and quite high -quality hostel. A very bad university with a real inclusion in the world network, with a very strong IT corps of people.

Vyacheslav Glazychev: One of the main problems of Moscow, which we are now discussing with the authorities, is that the city needs housing for rent, since the idea of ​​the early 1990s that everyone should have their own housing turned out to be unviable. People simply don't have the money for it. Markus Appenzeller: In Holland, where I live, a similar phenomenon is now observed, but for different reasons.

Residents are prone to nutrition, but they do not have funds for them. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin. Letters to the aunt Due to the combination of circumstances, speaking of Moscow, I am trying to combine a few badly consistent positions, in which some paranoidality is read. In fact, as a member of the group developing the development strategy of Moscow, I have to reckon with moderate official optimism as an uncertain condition for the order.

Pikalevo is a wonderful place. A town with a population of 26 thousand people. It used to be more, but many parted. This is the Leningrad region, even closer to Moscow. Swamp. Pikalevo is a curious place. Heroic Soviet industrialization. Clay factory, bauxite. No wonder the neighboring town is called Boxitogorsk. This is domestic aluminum, the 1930s, heroics. For many, many years this was led by the general director, who invested here to the maximum, which allowed Soviet time.

From the editorial office. Not so long ago it became known that the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow completed a loud investigation into the murder of the fan of the Spartak football club Yegor Sviridov.