I love my homeland, e-mine!
And who else, if not her ...
The experience of a naive trip to the country of innovation and barbed wire.

Alexey Orlov Aka Yosha O'Rlow
We conceived this journey spontaneously. We discussed some next news about Skolkovo on Facebook, and take Seryoga and offer to go there. Just like that, without an invitation, and see how our scientific center is being built. No, I, of course, convinced him that we would not see anything there and they would not let us go anywhere ... But Serega did not lose heart and said that if they didn’t let us, then we would write that we were not allowed. On that and decided. And we went, slightly studying the Skolkovo site and the article on Wikipedia. That is, I studied before, and Seryoga after ... however, about that later.

Sergey Nidolov AKA Baron Mukha
It is worth adding that we did not go with the aim of exposing and branding. We are not politically engaged. Personally, I judge by actions. The government makes the right things - great. The government is breeding corruption and bureaucracy - bad. We are ordinary taxpayers, the government works and lives on our money. We are shareholders, and this is an inspection of our investments in OJSC "Russia", in the Board of Directors under the chairmanship of V.V. Putin.
For example, Medvedev impresses me. Putin is also imputed, if he had not been licked and not covered with cotton wool. So - politicians zero !!! Two laymen went to see: what their taxes are spent on. All!
I repeat:
They could go to excursions and conferences, but I am interested to look from the street.

Alexey "Yosha" Orlov
Skolkovo met us unfriendly. On the way, at first there was the building of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo. I was there at open events, like an open day. Then they let me in, once even by car, the second time I was lost, and I left the car behind the fence, and I was registered inside, scanning the barcode directly from the phone screen.
*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
There was an idea to sign up for an excursion. But there are enough window dressings to me in the program "Time".
Personally, I do not understand the very idea of Skolkovo, and why the hell in the field to build a science city without economic premises and requests from industry? We were not the first to decide to give birth to a "silicone valley", there is an experience of Banglore in India and Cyberjia in Malaysia. This experience clearly says that giving birth without an act of conception is quite difficult: either a miracle or a deception.
But the authorities know better.

Alexey "Yosha" Orlov
We left the car across the road, in a parking lot at a pile of snow, where cars are dumped. Seeing already outside the gate, such a checkpoint we decided to simply turn the brick under the sign and go around it. But the vigilant guard jumped out of there and began to convince that nothing could be. Nothing at all. You can’t go if there is no pass. You can’t go to the museum (about the museum later). You can’t take pictures either in general - everything is on the Internet. The guys in the photo were not allowed either. And we turned around and went to look for other buildings.

*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
Museum! Interestingly, in Silicon Valley there is a museum surrounded by a platoon of protection and barbed wire?
BUT! Ladies and gentlemen-skeptics, there is a building, that is, something has been built on our money. The question of what is happening inside and why it remains unanswered.
For me, in principle, the meaning of the construction of Skolkovo is incomprehensible. Why not such colossal funds not send to Akademgorodok, Dubnu, Tomsk? There are people, there are sites. Invest, develop. Why stuck this building and surrounded the guard, I do not understand; They did not let them in, seeing the process of photographing - they cried out with screams. Such a normal scientific situation! Why is this building and what is happening there, it remains incomprehensible (about the protection later).
But the authorities know better.

*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
And this is the second building. I repeat, I went to Skolkovo absolutely no idea what was going on there. But there are two large buildings, something is built, it is already good. Although some of the money is not in offshore. This inspired us ... More precisely, Lesha knew a lot, but smiled and was silent.

The fence around the Skolkovo school. In the distance, the corps of the Urals.
Alexey "Yosha" Orlov
Actually, the school itself is located behind the village of Skolkovo. And Skolkovo itself is a village with chic palaces behind huge fences along the highway and old hibars in the depths of the village.


To get to the Skolkovo Technopark, you need to drive Skolkovo through, go through the next village and already there, turning right, see another checkpoint.
*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
The village is very contrasting. Old huts-flashes and multi-storey cottages. A lot of housing for sale. Simply put, cunning people bought the ground, built up and wait for profitable buyers, after everything blossoms there by science.
But we were graciously allowed to walk a kilometer one and a half, leaving the car here. Behind the barrier we were waiting for a bunch of promises of the beautiful.
*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
Protection and access control simply infuriates. What the hell are adults healthy men in the prime of strength sitting for days, growing hemorrhoids and guessing scanwords? It would be better if money was allocated to create jobs for these orphans. What are they guarding there? Moreover, you will be shocked, but in Rus' there is even a protection factory factory. I always believed that these boards are done along the way at some car construction, and this is a whole factory!

*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
Naturally, the wise and all that understands the Russian people trodden the path bypassing the triumph of idiocy, according to which you can quickly and without delay get to the desired point. And why? This is a science city, hang cameras and fix, invent the robot! Are you afraid of theft? Put a booth near the construction site or laboratory.
When I began to shoot, they again began to be indignant and banned. To which were sent in open text, the nerves could not stand.
Here is the path to the hyperkub. Guys, do not look at the report to the authorities from Skolkovo, otherwise they will go up and close the path ... And there are several kilometers bypassing through the checkpoint to the dick, be prudent!


But in fact, there was again a checkpoint and a long road along the fence with barbed wire.
*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
Regarding this structure, a version of the hyper transition to subspace arose. But - security!

Alexey "Yosha" Orlov
Behind the fence, endless wastelands, some dumps were visible. But we were attracted by the only building we know - hyperkub.

*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
All fences and barbed wire. Everywhere protection posts ... and signs with plans. We sighed and went to the hyperkub! The beauty and pride of Skolkovo. I anticipated a stylish unusual building, full of botans under the eyeballs. Lesha was cunningly silent.

And we went to him, casting shadows along a long road from yellow brick

Alexey "Yosha" Orlov
The shadows were fixed with a bunch of cameras along the road. And it was a little embarrassed, because, immediately going beyond the first checkpoint, we began to click with cameras and immediately received an imperious shout. And it became clear to us that a hyperkub was waiting for us.

But we walked and walked. They passed another internal checkpoint, completely empty, and, finally, there, behind the river, the lights of the glass of hyperkub were burned.
*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
Oh yes! Sweeped! It is likely that this six-story barn looks spectacular at night, and the main production and scientific part is hidden in the bowels of the Earth. But on the outside, this is a barn in the field.
There was a bus and people walked. It became clear from the site that some conference was held. We were not allowed, although Lesha has a completely scientific and intelligent face. What happened there, what was inside, for us remained a mystery.
Conferences are constantly there. Built a cube in the field for conferences? Is this such humor?

Alexey "Yosha" Orlov
Hyperkub had another checkpoint on which three police officers were already waiting for us. Inside, they did not let us in. They were not allowed to photograph. They said that this was full of on the Internet and recommended taking pictures of Abramovich’s golf club behind the fence.
Golf club somewhere here.

*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
It was not guard who was waiting for us, but a couple of police officers and a civilian man. There are no complaints about them. The guys, smiling, asked not to take pictures. In their eyes it was read: "Guys, you would have come from here, but God forbid, what is wrong - the authorities are fading us."
Their eyes were full of wisdom and fatigue from all this circus with horses, and at home there was a legitimate beer and warm friends. We understood each other and began to photograph from the place that did not peep with cameras.
Hyperkub behind, and ahead in the distance, like, a research institute of agriculture. There is nothing more.

Alexey "Yosha" Orlov
And we stomped on, to the cranes above the mountain, who built something.

*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
How is it "what was built"? "Business Center", but what, everything is right! Not a fig, so you need to build a business center. True, the next guard reported a secret that this was Putin's palace. I did not believe, for me the version with Putin’s palaces across the country is flimsy. Most likely, members of the government are building cottages and they say to everyone that for Putin. And what? Strong move, all claims to dad)
"Putin Palace"

And then we dawned on us ... - This is a tower of magicians !!! In strategic games, such zikgurats put to stake the territory. Well, the territory was captured and stained with a hypercube ... there they grow magicians, they build a business center to expand influence, and a little below the Faid pond. Who played Hiros, he will understand)

Cranes are building a business center.
Guys, take the cameras and go to Skolkovo, they will not build anything without public control! 3 years are being built. The palaces and cottages around have already grown, and only hyperkub grew in the case, or rather a hyperklub for conferences and trainings.
Here the Rost project is engaged in the socialization of pupils of orphanages and boarding schools through online education . Why not help people who are engaged in the most difficult problem in Russia, the socialization of orphans. After all, graduates of orphanages, for the most part, by the age of 30 become marginals, convicts, drug addicts, alcoholics ... Units are erased.
Give this project at least 1% of money invested in the Mud in near Moscow. A little help, and here you have students, graduate students, scientists, and just educated people. A little ... But we are building Skolkovo!
Guys follow the link above, look at the growth project ... There is support there.

Alexey "Yosha" Orlov
Here, at the turn to the cranes, Skolkovo ended. In the distance, the Minsk highway was visible, in the distance there were already residential buildings and the building of the agricultural institute, from which the lands were taken under the speed.

*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
So, the fact that there were earlier the research institute of agriculture of the central regions of the non -chernozem zone , and the quiet peaceful agronomists in the experimental fields grown valuable cereal crops. But there were harsh times! They came to the agronomists and explained that they are engaged in nonsense and interfere with the development of Russian science. They say they even tried to protest, but, having heard the friendly laughter of officials, they retreated.
Something tells me that it would be better if the agronomists worked there, it would be more benefit for the country.
But we will build Skolkovo "with Blackjack and whores."

*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
Actually, in this photo I am standing in the place where there will be a science city.
The impressions are very strange. Huge fields, in the middle of which are hypercubic, a multi -colored terminal and there is a construction of a business center. I have no idea what the science-hacks look like ... But something tells me what is wrong.

Alexey "Yosha" Orlov
I don’t know how successful Skolkovo will be. So far, it seems strange to me that some strange constructions are being built in the middle of the field (legal). Innovations by definition live where there are entrepreneurs. The fact that a certain number of entrepreneurs were still found is more likely contrary to, and not thanks to the prevailing environment. And the future of these developments is very vague.
The steam engine was invented in Russia, but it was thrown into the trash, because he did not give any advantages. And the invention of the engine in England (as the previously invention of the new windmill in Holland) turned the entire way of industry over the same 40 years.
Inventions in Russia are not given advantages. Therefore, this cargo foreign center is built with traditional methods. With the bosses of the authorities , with a cut of money . This is a real advantage.
But I know that several entrepreneurs found money in Skolkovo. God forbid that they did everything, despite the heavy swamp around.
*Sergey *Baron Mukha *Nidolov
Here is Skolkovo. One thing is not clear why it is. Well, yes, they built hyperkubs and two institutes. But what prevented the directing and development of ready -made areas?
One question ... Why?
He just haunts me.
Why build an Olympics when there was no repair in the Belgorod clinical hospital ?
Why organize the World Cup when in the village of Rakhmanovo the head physician dreams of an ambulance ?
Why is a science city that is not in demand by the economy in an empty field, instead of giving 60,000 rubles to the Winter Pushchinsky school, a project organized by young scientists, students, graduate students ?
Why raise taxes for individual entrepreneurs and at the same time write out benefits for the oil industry?
I understand that adequate people will come and pour water that money is invested in infrastructure in 3 years, that there are large projects and are almost implemented, that I am a provocateur and looked in the wrong place that I need to go on excursions and I will see everything. But I believe my eyes, and this story about the underground power station .
Such spikes ... how many beautiful things could be made. It would be possible ...
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Alexey Orlov Aka Yosha O'Rlow
Sergey Nidolov AKA Baron Mukha. Project Apostle