Is Cherkizon immortal?

The registration of those wishing to trade on the main market of the country has begun

Usually such things happen in programs like “Wait for me”: someone close and dear suddenly returns from oblivion and throws himself into your arms. Now the Cherkizovsky market can return. On Thursday, at 9.30 am, at the line "A" of the "New AST" ...

Usually such things happen in programs like “Wait for me”: someone close and dear suddenly returns from oblivion and throws himself into your arms.

Now the Cherkizovsky market can return.

On Thursday, at 9.30 in the morning, people, mostly of Slavic appearance, gathered near the line “A” of the “New AST”. At ten the blinds opened, and the market administration came out with a large granary book. I saw this book in the fall, it keeps track of all fifteen years of work - how the owners of containers changed.

Now everyone who wants to come with their copy of the passport, name their place in the market, the administration compares their data with what is written in the book, and leads the person to his container, a lock is hung on his gate, after which the satisfied entrepreneur with the keys in his hands leaves and the next one comes in.

The action takes place in a peaceful environment, albeit in a police cordon.

Who called her is unclear. The administration says that "everything has been decided with the market at the highest level." Maybe then the police are needed to protect civilized people who register at the gates of the administration?

At about eleven in the morning, the head of the Izmailovo police department, Alexander Akinshin, arrived and once again informed people that “not everything has been decided” with the opening of the market, and asked them not to hand over any money.

Thanks to Colonel Akinshin, who really worries about people. After all, there were so many deceptions, thefts and even murders in this market ( see "Marauders in Moscow" , No. 95 "New" for 2009; "Cherkizon and Putin" , No. 96 "New" for 2009 ), that even now goes rumor: they will collect money from people, but the market will be demolished anyway. After all, no one has canceled the court decisions and orders of the prefect on the release of land plots on which the entire large motley Cherkizovsky is located.

What is the market now? Mostly ruins that no one cleans up. Only the markets with a scorpion and the inscription "AST" on the signboard have been repaired, painted, the wiring has been replaced, and the shields have been brought out. They seem to be ready for opening, although in fact not all the requirements of the Ministry of Emergency Situations have been met, for non-compliance with which the market was closed. One of them is simply impossible to fulfill - it is required to expand the distance between buildings up to 15 meters.

It is probably easier to “negotiate at the highest level”, or demolish the market and build a new shopping complex in its place. Moreover, Telman Ismailov's company has already won a tender for the construction of a new perfect shopping complex there (although AST itself, according to the documents, is also not a market, but a complex).

The administration recruited a large number of security guards and cleaners of the territory. The parking lot for 500 buses is ready even tomorrow to receive guests of the capital - shuttles.

Yesterday the administration of the market invited mainly Slavs to come. Even at the entrance people were asked about their nationality. What this is connected with is unknown.

Probably, it is necessary to show how many Russian entrepreneurs remained unsettled. To be honest, a huge number of Russian entrepreneurs were left without work. Since all the best places in the markets were bought by the Chinese and people from other countries.

All this year, Russian entrepreneurs themselves settled down as best they could, fighting for places in the markets. An initiative group of the Cherkizovsky market was created at AST, which was then able to register as a public organization. It was headed by Vera Aldoshina. She wrote three volumes of letters to various departments and received three volumes of replies. Which already seemed to lead nowhere. In addition, the trade union of the Cherkizovsky market was created, headed by Leonid Razvozzhaev. Yesterday, Leonid and Vera worked hand in hand, helping the administration to let people into the market in groups of 10-15 people. That is, Russian entrepreneurs have received some kind of status that is still unclear from a legal point of view under the administration, and this is good.

Another curious moment is the change in tone and content of official statements. Now even law enforcement agencies have nothing against Telman Ismailov. Probably, counterfeit goods were delivered to the AST warehouses by a circle of unidentified persons, and all this year the goods were sold by the same circle - from sealed warehouses. (On the other hand, when it was necessary to destroy counterfeit goods that had already been sold or stolen, Tajiks working in the market were stripped of all uniforms, given them new ones, and the old ones were burned along with formaldehyde slippers and mannequins in front of TV cameras.)

In turn, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said on the air of the TVC channel: “We determine all decisions on Moscow land, and there will be no market on it. On federal soil, we'll see what decision they make." That is, even Luzhkov does not exclude the revival of Cherkizovsky. Meanwhile, the prefect of the VAO Nikolay Evtikheev on May 27 issued an order to disconnect the market from all life support systems. I wonder how to open it without light and water.

In Odessa, there is a “monument to an orange”, which is better known as a “monument to a bribe”. Its history is curious. The city appeared thanks to Empress Catherine II, but her heir Pavel did not have warm feelings for his mother, and especially for her favorites, and, having ascended the throne, turned off all projects. Including the construction of the port, without which Odessa would have ended without really starting.

Then the inhabitants of Odessa thought of giving Pavel a bribe, but not with money, but ... with oranges. In those years, tropical fruits were the greatest rarity. But a whole convoy was sent to the imperial palace. Having received the original gesheft, Pavel thawed and allocated money for the port, and also granted the city other benefits and privileges. This is where the expression “load oranges in barrels” came from.

The decision to open Cherkizovsky, if it was taken "at the highest level", is not much different from the story with oranges. And the working market, after a huge campaign to close it with the participation of the first persons of the country and the city, will become the largest “monument to the orange” in modern Russia.

When the number was made
On Thursday, the prefect of the Eastern Administrative Okrug Nikolay Evtikheev announced that on Friday the demolition of the market owned by K5FAST LLC will begin.

Old Tats talking* (overheard in the market)

- Well, are they open?

- From the 1st, 29th - a banquet in Prague. But they didn’t believe Telman, they all spat on him, they dispersed to other markets. And look, it's back.

Yes, but what did it cost him? Back in the fall, they said that he had saved a billion for the Olympics.

“Oh, I don’t know about a billion. On the contrary, all autumn and winter he tried to get to the main Olympian, to solve the issue, but he still could not. I had to bow to the Maybach to go.

- Is this the one who studied with the Olympian in the same group and "Zaporozhets" gave him? He seems to be from Baku right now.

- Well, yes, we met in Baku. Maybach said that he himself could not decide anything, but he knew a person through whom all this could be done.

- Since then, Sarkhan, Telman's son, has become interested in football with us, sat on the Terek?

- Yes, only "Terek" - it is for beauty. But customs and the international airport in Grozny are another matter. Just one of those that Telman knows how to solve. That's why they need him. And in parallel, he took control of the Kazakh customs and Ukrainian.

- That's what I see, the new owners began to come to us on the Porsche Cayenne. Are they on the line now?

- In the valley. I myself do not know what exactly Telman left behind. In general, they say, he does all this to punish God and Zarakh, who profited from his misfortune. So he said: “They have a million, I have three kopecks, but I gave them away to hurt them badly.” Well, about three kopecks, this is, of course, out of modesty. He transferred 251 million dollars to a charity fund of one young lady ...

— Oh, no politics. Tell me better, how does he want to punish?

- Yes, if AST opens and works, as before, both Sadovod and Moskva will die immediately. All wholesalers will take the old route, and sellers will come running here. A year with Zarakh will remain without money.

— Yes, he is Telman. He knows how to live beautifully, and take revenge too ...

* Tats are a small ethnic group living in the mountainous region of Azerbaijan. The largest settlement is Krasnaya Sloboda. Telman Ismailov, God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev (who control trade in the Sadovod market and the Moskva shopping center) were born there, as well as, according to some reports, their partner, Putin's classmate Ilgam Ragimov.