PROJECTS TO THE DESK

Many Tomsk projects amaze with their scale and innovation. They are announced by press services, news portals talk about them, and they become the subject of controversy and discussion among Tomsk residents. For the last couple of years, “Tomsk embankments” have been actively discussed in Tomsk. The planned implementation period of the project is 2030. The cost of the project has not been fully determined, but figures of about 50 billion rubles appeared in the press. The sources of funding are not yet entirely clear. We decided to recall some Tomsk projects that remained announcements, although quite often real funds from the budget were spent on them. Our selection includes five urban projects that did not become reality.

High-speed tram Tomsk – Seversk

The idea of ​​this project was voiced in 2011, speaking about the prospects for the development of railway communication in the Tomsk region. Then Igor Shaturny said that the project would be implemented back in 2025. By this time, the cities should have been connected by three-car trams. The cost of the project was estimated at 0.5 billion rubles.

“The construction concept has been defined. A transport corridor has been found that will connect Dalne-Klyuchevskaya Street in Tomsk and Lenin Street in Seversk. A special fenced transport line will run along Bolshaya Podgornaya. The tram will accommodate about 250 people and reach speeds of up to 80-100 km/h. This will allow Seversk residents to get to Tomsk in 5-6 minutes,” said Alexey Safronov, head of the capital construction department.

In November 2011, the project was calculated by the ROEL Group company, with which a tripartite agreement was signed. In 2013, Tomsk Mayor Ivan Klein stated that it was quite possible to find an investor for the project, and that high-speed trams could be purchased in Minsk. The only thing that, according to the mayor, stopped the process was the lack of a transport corridor needed to start construction, which the administration could not find. In August 2013, Evgeniy Parshuto stated that almost two billion dollars were needed for the project.

“Talking about the real implementation of this project with the help of budget investments is impossible, with the help of private investments is bordering on fantasy,” noted Evgeniy Parshuto. He added that the corridor for the future high-speed tram has been defined and it is possible to conduct a dialogue with investors, but there are none, and the project itself is not the most relevant for Tomsk.

Third bridge over Tom

Information about the construction of a third bridge across the Tom appeared in 2011. Then the city administration and Sibmost OJSC signed a cooperation agreement. The company had to develop design estimates for the construction of a bridge in the western part of Tomsk. The bridge itself was supposed to have access to the left bank bypass road under construction.

The project was developed at the expense of Sibmost, which invested 100 million rubles in this. The mayor of the city promised that the documentation would be purchased by the municipality in any case.

“The length of the bridge crossing will be about 800 meters, the traditional width is four lanes. This is enough to solve our traffic flows,” Nikolai Nikolaychuk said at the agreement signing ceremony. Preparation of the project was supposed to be completed by October 2011; the mayor did not specify the construction timeframe. The cost of construction was estimated at 4-6 billion rubles, and financing was expected from budgets of all levels. Later, the construction cost estimate increased to 12-15 billion rubles.

In 2012, it was said that construction of the bridge would begin when funds were found, and the city administration planned to contact a number of ministries: the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Regional Development, the Ministry of Transport, Rosavtodor. There was even the option of contacting Minatom, since the city needed the bridge from the point of view of strategic security - as an evacuation route in the event of an emergency in Seversk, said the head of the city department of capital construction, Alexey Safronov. This year it became known that the third bridge across the Tom will not be built yet, so its construction is not the highest priority task for today.

However, in May 2015, a message appeared that the designers of the St. Petersburg ENKO Institute presented proposals to the Tomsk authorities to adjust the city’s general plan, including the construction of a new bridge across the Tom. The fact is that the institute that developed the general plan of Tomsk won the competition to correct it.

“(The adjustments) provide for the creation of a qualitatively new ring system of bypass routes for external roads, in particular, a new bridge over the Tom River may appear in the city,” the city administration said in a statement.

infographic "City newspaper"

Left Bank Road

The history of the Tomsk left bank road has been going on since 2008, when the project for the construction of the left bank road won the competition of the Ministry of Economic Development. During this time, construction of the road was frozen and resumed several times. The new four-lane road, 11 kilometers long, was supposed to connect the new and old utility bridges. The total cost was estimated at about three billion rubles.

“A dam road is being built that will protect the territory from a one percent flood, which occurs once every 100 years. Transport accessibility of territories. Today, the entire federal highway goes through the settlement of Timiryazevo, which does not comply with any safety or environmental standards and regulations. The road is the approach on the left side to the central communal bridge, which is very important, because the bridge cannot go anywhere; there must be approaches to it. One more point: the road is a backup for Lenin Avenue,” explained Alexey Safronov.

In 2010, about 178 million rubles were required to continue the construction of the left bank road; later the city repaid this debt to the contractor SMU-33 and construction resumed.

In November 2012, the construction of bridges to the left bank road was completed. The road by this time was made of crushed stone. At the same time, the mayor's office announced that traffic on the left bank road would open in November, but due to lack of funds, construction was mothballed. Also in 2012, the authorities stated that the construction of the road would be completely completed in 2014. In 2013, it became known that the construction of the left bank was frozen indefinitely due to a lack of federal funds. Then the chairman of the Tomsk City Duma Committee on Budget, Economics and Property, Kirill Novozhilov, said that “only the federal budget can pull through the project,” and now it is necessary to freeze the road, “perhaps we will complete construction in the future.” Later, Igor Shaturny announced his intention to resume construction of the road - the authorities planned to find money to continue construction by 2015.

“The facility needs to be completed, because huge budgetary resources have been invested, and it’s probably wrong to abandon it. But it will be difficult to do this at the expense of the regional budget. The governor sets the task for us to attract an investor or federal money. Next year various options will be explored,” he said. In December 2014, Mayor Ivan Klein announced that the city no longer had funds to build the facility. In 2015, the region announced plans to resume construction work by attracting budget funds. At the same time, the region submitted a report to the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation on the elimination of violations, but after an inspection, the agency reported that the violations had not been completely corrected.

The road has not yet been completed. In November 2015, Igor Shaturny reported that the budget for 2016 included funds for the conservation of the road - about 10 million rubles, but there were no resources for completing the construction of the left bank.

Water park and zoo in Mikhailovskaya Grove

In the near future, a zoo, a water park and a new city garden will open in Mikhailovskaya Grove, authorities announced in April 2009. The order to create a recreational zone in the grove was given by Governor Victor Kress, the project was approved by the city administration. At the request of the Tomsk City Hall, a large-scale reconstruction project was prepared by the architectural bureau "Style".

The project provided for the placement in the grove of a sports complex with a water park, a 50-meter swimming pool, children's entertainment facilities and a gym. In numbers, the updated Mikhailovskaya Grove looked like this: 10 hectares of the zoo area, 5 hectares of the city garden, 30 hectares of the natural park and another 3.5 hectares of the water park. At the entrance to the grove a cafe and an exotarrium were to appear. A monorail railway was supposed to pass through the grove on the territory of the city garden. The head of the department of natural resources, Alexander Adam, stated that he was 99% satisfied with the project, and the head of the department of protection of the natural complex also approved the project. The total cost of the project was slightly less than 2 billion rubles.

400 million should come from the budget for infrastructure construction, the rest of the money should be invested by business structures. Since then, Mikhailovskaya Grove has not changed.

Photo: Mikhailovskaya Grove project, developed by the architectural bureau "Style"

In 2015, a survey was conducted on the city hall website about what Tomsk residents want to see in the grove. Based on the voting results, it turned out that in the grove they want to see a cobblestone embankment, a rock garden and a children's playground equipped with a rope playground. In the fall of 2015, sanitary cutting of trees was carried out in the park. It is difficult to predict whether something proposed by Tomsk residents will appear in Mikhailovskaya Grove in 2016.

Yacht club in the Radonezh microdistrict

This project does not take years to complete and no deadline has been set for its implementation. However, the idea itself was remembered by many Tomsk residents.

Most recently, Ivan Klein visited the Radonezhsky microdistrict under construction by TDSC. On the site, which was purchased from Shpalozavod for construction, they plan to build 240 thousand square meters of housing. During the inspection, Ivan Klein noticed that the obvious advantage of the new microdistrict is access to the Tom River, and therefore it would be an opportune time to build an observation deck, an amusement park and a yacht club here. All this, according to the mayor, will give additional impetus to the development of this territory. According to Ivan Klein, business needs to be involved in construction.

The mayor did not specify the time frame for the announcement to appear in Radonezh, but the idea of ​​building a yacht club on Tom was remembered by Tomsk residents. However, the new microdistrict may surprise Tomsk residents with one more object. The director of TDSC suggested using the brick pipe left over from the ShPZ as an art object.

“We are not removing it yet; we decided to consult with the authorities. In Shanghai, they saw that a city electronic thermometer was made from such a pipe. We could also implement a similar idea,” suggested Speter.

In the photo: pipe-electronic thermometer in Shanghai

Tags: Tomsk, Tomsk region, urban projects, Left Bank Road, bridge over the Tom, Seversk, Mikhailovskaya Grove