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Anapa roofs
Officials appropriate the shore of the Black Sea
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| The officers of the Anapa lighthouse signaled the leadership of the Black Sea Fleet about the lawlessness of developers, but the general is silent |
Anapa roofs. Russian officials rapidly privatize and build up everything that can only reach. The coast of the Caucasus was no exception. How, who and at what price for the ecology is assigned the shore of the Black Sea - the New Times sorted out
“They strive to build up everything, rather, more likely and do not think about anything, and when the shore is washed into the sea, it will be too late,” the candidate of biological sciences Svetlana Pankova, one of the activists of Anapa, is sure that the consequences of the reckless development of the Black Sea coast will soon become catastrophic. “Look - in recent years in Anapa there are few rains and continuous pile. Heat, dust and sand winds. In Soviet times, ”says Svetlana,“ there were strict standards for resort cities in our region: 70 % - green zones and 30 % - buildings. Now in Anapa, and in Sochi, and in Tuapse, in other cities this balance is violated. Concrete and asphalt are hot, hot air rushes up, displaces the clouds and creates a strangling microclimate. ”
That is why in Anapa, for example, on Pioneer Prospekt between sanatoriums, in the old days they retained buffer zones of natural wastelands and thickets. Today they are not. Just like in other Black Sea cities. Top view - continuous roofs.
Changes affect the entire ecosystem, Pankova explains. That's just this year in the area of Sochi has already passed three landslides, which simply could not be 20 or 30 years ago. The fault of this, of course, is not only the mass development of resort cities, but also an attack on the entire coast. Previously, the balance was able to maintain the balance, because they remained untouched floodplains, estuaries, deserted overgrown shores. Now they are trying to master absolutely everything. What is worth only a decision to extract sand for Olympic construction in Sochi at sea, in the Anapa area.
To chop and build “Anapa should develop,” the first deputy mayor Andrei Koftun shall shake all the environmental arguments of The New Times. - Like any world -class resort we are interested in investors. They must be involved somehow. ” According to Koftun, the authorities respect the nature no worse than ecologists - they recently laid a nut grove for 5,000 seedlings. The mayor Tatyana Evsikova and her deputies participated in the landings personally. The head of the Anapa administration has long been working hand in hand with his two deputies-they are immigrants from the investment department of the administration of the Krasnodar Territory and 2.5 years ago were delegated to master the resort city with the aim of “attracting investors”. Therefore, when the developer was enclosing the only children's park in the northern part of Anapa, the administration did not mind. Local Cossacks and residents fought with the fence, thirty years ago equipping the green zone on Pioneer Prospekt. They lost. Now the Black Sea Fleet has entered the fight - the new building is blocking the barn navigation sign.
The iron fence that fenced off the children's park in the center of Anapa is a symbol of the defeat of the townspeople in the war with the developers “This is a scandal of international significance,” the head of the Anapa lighthouse Anatoly Naruevsky is indignant. - With such problems with navigation, not a single foreign ship will go to our port. Of course, we sent a report to both the fleet headquarters in Sevastopol and Moscow to the Commander -in -Chief, but there is no result yet. ” Access is closed even for serving the sign. In front of The New Times correspondent, the head of the lighthouse and two other officers from the hydrographic service of the Black Sea Fleet tried to unsuccessfully take the fence by storm.
It is officially believed that at the site of the children's park, the local developer Sergei Antipin arranges a parking lot. “This antipin is an influential person who is easily entered to all officials,” Anapchans say, “he wanted to become a deputy of the City Council himself, but the old ones interfered with criminal record.” The city does not believe in the legend of the parking lot - Antipin’s company specializes in the construction of residential complexes and hotels. In addition, a powerful electrical substation has already been installed on the site, which is not needed to protect cars, but is designed to maintain multi -storey buildings such as hotels.
The business museum is also an entrepreneur from Krasnodar Igor Gayvoronsky-according to rumors, a close friend of the influential Kuban developer of Roman Batalov, the son-in-law of the governor of the region Alexander Tkachev, rented a place near the sea in the historical part of the city for the construction, according to him, a museum institution. Moreover, at the end of the local history museum, which has existed here a hundred years. In the picture, a new museum institution suspiciously looks like a mini-hotel, but local courts sided with the philanthropist over and over again. “We had to prevent the construction,” says the chieftain of the city Cossack society Sergei Basel. - The whole city rose, did not miss the equipment for several months. Power - aside. We, they say, here are new, the plot was stood out before us the same mayor. But what about them, if at the decisive moment when the fence was put, fifty people caught up the police and crushed the townspeople? ”
This juniper-fisted grove has not yet been cut down only thanks to the efforts of ecologists. Metal fence as a symbol of the Anapchanes defeat in the battle for their resort still decorates the city center. The regional court, however, canceled the construction permit issued by Gayvoronsky. And he must return the site to the city. But, according to the employees of the city hall, he still will have to highlight the equivalent area.
The FSO standard next to Anapa, who has already defended all the few or less parks and squares for building, until recently, the only natural resource remained untouched-the Big Utrish reserve. The reserve was formed in 1986, this is a coast of 12.5 km long and about 6–7 km wide between the villages of a small and large Utrish. On the entire Black Sea coast there is no other place where a relict juniper forest and more than 60 species of plants and animals listed in the Red Book grow. In connection with the special value of the territory in May 2001, the Government of the Russian Federation issued an order to create a natural reserve here. The deadlines were set - 2010, the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) prepared the project of the reserve and its boundaries with all interested departments were agreed. But for some reason the matter did not move. And then suddenly went with seven -mini steps.
“You just need to compare events,” says Cossack centurion Viktor Reznikov. -In the summer of 2007, Russia received the Olympics in Sochi-and the Anapa forestry was immediately eliminated. And after a couple of months, the administration of Anapa leased a part of the territory of the former reserve for a certain company Rosinvest LLC. And the company began to chop out a clearing in a unique juniper-figure forest. But what about? After all, budgets are allocated to the Olympics? So, they will build palaces. ”
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The core of the reserve is knocked out. And is intended for the construction of a fitness center. The territory is rented by the Dar Foundation. The Supervisory Board of the Fund, according to the media, was headed by a fellow student Dmitry Medvedev Ilya Eliseev
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In November 2007, when a juniper-filled forest was cut down next to Lake Zmeinin, environmentalists began to alarm. After numerous appeals to Rosprirodnadzor and the prosecutor's office, it turned out that Rosinvest LLC was not to blame. And the illegal chop turned into a matter of almost public importance - the construction of a new fire road necessary to preserve the forest. A simple question: what the old road did not please, who served the reserve by faith and truth for many years, the authorities of all levels beat off in one argument - "it has become bad." Indeed, after bulldozers, it is dispersed and covered in places. However, the new road to the fire is not like. Firstly, two of these "fire" roads. Secondly, both of them, judging by the size of the cutting, should be four-lane. Thirdly, they lead to the center of the former reserve, to the sea coast, where there are no fires. “There was no doubt that here, in the last clean lagoon of the Black Sea, another VIP building is being started,” says Viktor Reznikov. “Familiar guys from the special services explained: a four -lane road with an understudy is the FSO standard to ensure the safety of VIPs.”
Soon the suspicion was confirmed. A certain project of a fitness center on Utrish appeared on the Internet, like two drops of water similar to the palace complex near Gelendzhik, known as “Putin's Cottage”. The same apartments for the owner, a servant hotel, a helicopter platform, a wine cellar, a yacht club, a rotunda for 150 square meters. meters. It is assumed that the entire zone of a closed and well -guarded elite rest will stretch a kilometer one and a half. At the same time, ecologists learned about the final version of the reserve project. As follows from the analysis of cards and aerial photographs conducted by the non -profit partnership “Transparent World”, half of the territory of the former reserve was removed from the project of the future reserve. The most valuable areas "disappeared". The Sixkharis cluster was excluded, designed to preserve the natural complexes of the Markoth ridge, a coastal strip between the villages of Maly Utrish and Durso with juniper forest was seized, and a plot in the area of Utrishi lagoon was left. The core of the reserve is knocked out. And is intended for the construction of a certain physical education complex. Now this territory is rented by the Foundation of Regional Non -Profit Projects "Dar". The Supervisory Board of the Fund, according to the media, was headed by the deputy chairman of the Board of Gazprombank and a fellow student Dmitry Medvedev Ilya Eliseev. For a long time, the Fund was registered at one address with the Fund of Socio-Cultural Initiatives of the wife of President Svetlana Medvedeva, and in his “subsidiary”, the Dmitry Gryzilov, son of the State Duma Speaker, works as a Dar-president of youth programs (see The New Times No. 21 of June 20, 2011). Among the founders of the fund are the Levit company, related to better well -known companies - Novatek (among large shareholders are a close friend of Vladimir Putin Gennady Timchenko) and Gazprombank. Until the fall of 2009, representatives of the Fund claimed that they were mastering the Uvits for managing the Presidential Affairs. And although the administrations two years ago disowned this connection, the suspicions did not disperse.
The battle for the Utrish since 2008 Ecologists have unsuccessfully fight for the Utrish. ” “We did not even assume that so many people throughout the space of the former USSR were concerned about the fate of Utrish,” says the coordinator of the public movement “We will save the Utrish!” Maria Luzina. - Environmentalist organized by itself at the entrance to the reserve. They came to carry a voluntary watch from Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and I’m no longer talking about Russians, the whole geography was left here - from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. They took vacations, drove with their money to stop bulldozers. ” In tiny tents, a 45-year-old candidate of sciences from Rostov Andrei Vinogradov, a 53-year-old military meteorologist from Samara Viktor Creatine and a very young couple from Togliatti Zhenya Rozhkova and Dmitry Mosikhin, are huddled. It seems that it seems not in vain: in February of this year, together with the Cossacks, two intentional arson on a new fire road were prevented: someone is not washing, so he wants to prove the appropriateness of its existence. Car numbers of the arsonists are known. But for some reason the police are in no hurry to punish them.
Click to increase “Ecopost does not interfere with us,” said Andrei Koftun. - On Utrish, the municipality does not build anything and is not going to build. And if people have nothing to do, then let them stand as much as they like. ” But the general director of the "Utrish" reserve Alexander Krokhmal adheres to a different point of view. “I do not see the need to exist at all,” he told reporters at a press conference on June 8.
For four years now, people from all over the country have come to duty on the ecosost of defenders of Utrish on the same day, on the eve of the meeting of the Presidium of the State Council on Environmental Safety in Dzerzhinsk, the ecologists managed to transfer to the President Medvedev’s conclusions of Russian scientists about the significance of the seized part of the protected Utrishi lands. On June 21, the president published a list of instructions to federal and regional authorities following the results of the State Council. There is no direct mention of the Utrish there, but the defenders of the reserve continue to hope.