The people choose a bathhouse

When Muscovites voted for the mayor, they complained about a sharp lack of baths and demanded to build new ones. We decided to find out the reasons for these requirements and generally find out how the "paired establishments" changed and will we even have to take a steamfoot in ten years? Bans, like art, are eternal. The famous Sandunas, for example, withstood even the fire of 1812. After the revolution, the churches in Zlatovalova decreased, and the bathhouse remained as much. If they broke it behind the dilapidation, then they immediately built new ones. Don baths, for example, appeared in the early 30s due to the urgent need: Shabolovka was a hut area, whose inhabitants did not even suspect about the baths. The new government often built baths on the site of the destroyed churches. A similar tradition has not been brought to good. Banners spoke about the sad fate of the Rochda baths, built in 1937 near the church, where the Pioneers' House is located. The director of the house was blinded, and the bathhouse ended in the 93rd - they were located next to the parliament and they were shot at the same time with the White House, looking for snipers. In general, in the early 90s, the baths were not lucky: out of 60 "Soviet" enterprises, only half survived. There is a restaurant in the central baths now; Danilovsky, in terms of luxury, who had little inferior to the Sanduni, bought MMM and demolished after 3 months, clearing the construction site for a residential building. For lack of money for repairs and restoration, Kadashevsky baths closed. In the Donskoy, they were going to arrange a car interior. “When I came here in 1995,” recalls the director of the Don bathhouse Raisa Semiytnov, “there was a hoarfrost on the walls. And the banners at the old director bloomed so much that they persuaded visitors to give money to them, and not to the box office. With clients, I had to almost fight, forcing them to pay, as it should be. State subsidies stopped and maintain a bathhouse that requires annual repairs, there was nothing to. In order to keep afloat and not scare people with sky -high prices, we agreed not to increase the salary (it is on average for all 800 rubles) and expanded the service sector. Only at the expense of the Russian steam room do not survive today. Profit is given by hairdressers, the offices of a masseur, a cosmetologist and sauna. In search of a gang, in general, the slogan of the current baths: all for the good of the client! In the pre-revolutionary Sandunes, Governor General Dolgorukov was offered a silver gang. Now the gangs are plastic and tin, but as for the other wishes of the visitor, everything is possible here: massage, sauna and even a banquet. The Don baths turned out to be a record holder for cheapness: body massage - 150 rubles, “Hollywood facial skin” - 30. In Sandunas, you can take a steat in a separate Russian steam room and relax in a separate office (the cost of pleasure from 1000 to 3,500 rubles), in the Stanna baths to go to the sauna (from 700 to 1200 rubles), and in the recreation complex "Skhodnya". To visit the manual therapist and do bioepilation. Just striving in a common steam room for 30-80 people relatively cheap: from 30 to 200 rubles. A broom costs from 15 to 50. However, for pensioners, almost all baths are now installed “preferential” watches. Perhaps the only thing that is not in modern baths is the "particularly pure" water that the visitors of the Sanduna were seduced in tsarist times: water was taken from specially dug artesian wells with a depth of 700 feet. Now in the baths the water is common, tap, however, as assured in the Moscow Center of Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision, within the MPC (concentration of harmful substances, safe for health). Last year, not a single enterprise was closed for violation of sanitary control standards. On ordinary days, the floors in the baths are wiped at least 3 times, and the steam room, sofas and saunas after each visitor. The banner with the reforms in the baths has not changed, it seems, only the banners themselves. At the beginning of the twentieth century, as Gilyarovsky wrote, the banners brought to Moscow for “training” by children from the villages were mercilessly exploited by the owner and his deputy - a “piece” (boots with galoshes and a clock with a chain - the maximum that he could afford all days a soaring and praying visitors to a banner). Today, if they are overwhelmed, then exclusively for their own good. There are several varieties of this profession: on-duty saunas, a bathhouse worker, a spacecraft, who gives clean sheets, hats, slippers; And a bushchik. In terms of earnings in Soviet times and the banners were not inferior to the manager of stores in the era of a shortage of acquaintances. About the banner who has “everything is captured”, even the film was shot: “You - I am to you” with Leonid Kuravlev in the title role. - It was not easy to get a banner, especially since the Tatars basically worked in the baths. - says Banker Vasily S., a former engineer-designer. - To get an income place, the person paid money and stood in line - sometimes for several years, then for six months passed a trial period - the authorities checked whether he could work with people, and his salary for all 6 months went to the director. Officially, the banner received 70 rubles, but on a tipp in a day he earned his monthly pay. Some of the tips were given to the director and administrator. Those "unfastened" the heads of seven bath and launder plants in whose subordination the baths were. The tips system has been preserved so far and irreplaceable when caring for taxes. Now the division ends at the director’s level, and therefore it is still not easy to get to the banners, because in most customers' establishments are served by an old, “proven” team. Baths do not suffer from a lack of customers today: on weekdays they are filled with 60-70 percent, not to mention the holidays. On New Year's Eve, even in dear Sanduna, a line lined up. And no wonder - with such an arrangement: in the Central District - 5 baths, in the north -west - 2, in the southwest and completely alone. Where, one wonders, to steam to people? “You should not panic,” says Georgy Syutkin, deputy head of the department of the consumer market and the services of the Moscow Government. - 3 years ago, the mayor issued an order, according to which in each district it should appear in the enterprise. Last year, at the expense of the budget, a bathhouse was opened in the village of Nekrasovka, they repaired Vnukovo and Izmailovsky baths, now we are building a bathhouse in Novopedelkino. Next in line are baths in the Eastern, Southern, Northern, Western, South -Western Districts. How soon they will appear, it is difficult to say. The problem in the means: to build a new bathhouse costs about 40 million rubles, to restore the old one - 15. In addition, most of the non -working establishments are privatized, and the money is also needed for ransom. Here, however, there is a way out. On the advice of economists, it is necessary to increase property tax for the "non -use of the enterprise for their intended purpose." Maybe try, gentlemen, officials? You look, and the bath will increase, and prices will drop.

Bans, like art, are eternal. The famous Sandunas, for example, withstood even the fire of 1812. After the revolution, the churches in Zlatovalova decreased, and the bathhouse remained as much. If they broke it behind the dilapidation, then they immediately built new ones. Don baths, for example, appeared in the early 30s due to the urgent need: Shabolovka was a hut area, whose inhabitants did not even suspect about the baths.

The new government often built baths on the site of the destroyed churches. A similar tradition has not been brought to good. Banners spoke about the sad fate of the Rochda baths, built in 1937 near the church, where the Pioneers' House is located. The director of the house was blinded, and the bathhouse ended in the 93rd - they were located next to the parliament and they were shot at the same time with the White House, looking for snipers.

In general, in the early 90s, the baths were not lucky: out of 60 "Soviet" enterprises, only half survived. There is a restaurant in the central baths now; Danilovsky, in terms of luxury, who had little inferior to the Sanduni, bought MMM and demolished after 3 months, clearing the construction site for a residential building. For lack of money for repairs and restoration, Kadashevsky baths closed. In the Donskoy, they were going to arrange a car interior.

“When I came here in 1995,” recalls the director of the Don bathhouse Raisa Semiytnov, “there was a hoarfrost on the walls. And the banners at the old director bloomed so much that they persuaded visitors to give money to them, and not to the box office. With clients, I had to almost fight, forcing them to pay, as it should be. State subsidies stopped and maintain a bathhouse that requires annual repairs, there was nothing to. In order to keep afloat and not scare people with sky -high prices, we agreed not to increase the salary (it is on average for all 800 rubles) and expanded the service sector. Only at the expense of the Russian steam room do not survive today. Profit is given by hairdressers, the offices of a masseur, a cosmetologist and sauna.

In search of a gang

In general, the slogan of the current baths: all for the good of the client! In the pre-revolutionary Sandunes, Governor General Dolgorukov was offered a silver gang. Now the gangs are plastic and tin, but as for the other wishes of the visitor, everything is possible here: massage, sauna and even a banquet. The Don baths turned out to be a record holder for cheapness: body massage - 150 rubles, “Hollywood facial skin” - 30. In Sandunas, you can take a steat in a separate Russian steam room and relax in a separate office (the cost of pleasure from 1000 to 3,500 rubles), in the Stanna baths to go to the sauna (from 700 to 1200 rubles), and in the recreation complex "Skhodnya". To visit the manual therapist and do bioepilation.

Just striving in a common steam room for 30-80 people relatively cheap: from 30 to 200 rubles. A broom costs from 15 to 50. However, for pensioners, almost all baths are now installed “preferential” watches.

Perhaps the only thing that is not in modern baths is the "particularly pure" water that the visitors of the Sanduna were seduced in tsarist times: water was taken from specially dug artesian wells with a depth of 700 feet. Now in the baths the water is common, tap, however, as assured in the Moscow Center of Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision, within the MPC (concentration of harmful substances, safe for health).

Last year, not a single enterprise was closed for violation of sanitary control standards. On ordinary days, the floors in the baths are wiped at least 3 times, and the steam room, sofas and saunas after each visitor.

Banker-Senator

The reforms in the baths have not changed, it seems, only the banners themselves. At the beginning of the twentieth century, as Gilyarovsky wrote, the banners brought to Moscow for “training” by children from the villages were mercilessly exploited by the owner and his deputy - a “piece” (boots with galoshes and a clock with a chain - the maximum that he could afford all days a soaring and praying visitors to a banner). Today, if they are overwhelmed, then exclusively for their own good.

There are several varieties of this profession: on-duty saunas, a bathhouse worker, a spacecraft, who gives clean sheets, hats, slippers; And a bushchik. In terms of earnings in Soviet times and the banners were not inferior to the manager of stores in the era of a shortage of acquaintances. About the banner who has “everything is captured”, even the film was shot: “You - I am to you” with Leonid Kuravlev in the title role.

- It was not easy to get a banner, especially since the Tatars basically worked in the baths. - says Banker Vasily S., a former engineer-designer. - To get an income place, the person paid money and stood in line - sometimes for several years, then for six months passed a trial period - the authorities checked whether he could work with people, and his salary for all 6 months went to the director. Officially, the banner received 70 rubles, but on a tipp in a day he earned his monthly pay. Some of the tips were given to the director and administrator. Those "unfastened" the heads of seven bath and launder plants in whose subordination the baths were.

The tips system has been preserved so far and irreplaceable when caring for taxes. Now the division ends at the director’s level, and therefore it is still not easy to get to the banners, because in most customers' establishments are served by an old, “proven” team.

Bannia

Today, baths do not suffer from a lack of customers: on weekdays they are filled with 60-70 percent, not to mention the holidays. On New Year's Eve, even in dear Sanduna, a line lined up. And no wonder - with such an arrangement: in the Central District - 5 baths, in the north -west - 2, in the southwest and completely alone. Where, one wonders, to steam to people?

“You should not panic,” says Georgy Syutkin, deputy head of the department of the consumer market and the services of the Moscow Government. - 3 years ago, the mayor issued an order, according to which in each district it should appear in the enterprise. Last year, at the expense of the budget, a bathhouse was opened in the village of Nekrasovka, they repaired Vnukovo and Izmailovsky baths, now we are building a bathhouse in Novopedelkino. Next in line are baths in the Eastern, Southern, Northern, Western, South -Western Districts. How soon they will appear, it is difficult to say. The problem in the means: to build a new bathhouse costs about 40 million rubles, to restore the old one - 15. In addition, most of the non -working establishments are privatized, and the money is also needed for ransom.

Here, however, there is a way out. On the advice of economists, it is necessary to increase property tax for the "non -use of the enterprise for their intended purpose." Maybe try, gentlemen, officials? You look, and the bath will increase, and prices will drop.