Asks for this immodest question, already more than a year written in a temporary building in the Sur Square in the center of Volgograd, the majority of the population of not only our glorious city, but throughout Russia.
The question is fair. Especially for Volgograd, where there has been no city authorities for a year, and the regional is far from characteristic of its functions: trips to fashionable European resorts, procurement of expensive cars and repairing its offices, disruption of meetings of the regional parliament, and many more ... At the same time, the hero city, and its surroundings every year begin to resemble the historical photographs of Stalingrad immediately after the end Stalingrad battle.
Destroyed and empty houses, killed in the trash, destroyed parks and German car dealerships built in their place ... Surrealism, can you say? No - this is the reality that the Stalingraders see daily, on which young Volgograd residents are brought up.

What is the reason for such devastation? In a lack of money, lack of opportunities or desires? I think that there are many reasons and excuses, but the main reason is the devastation in the heads. And leaders, and the townspeople themselves. The results of recent surveys showed that only more than thirty percent of the townspeople are satisfied with the level of improvement of our city. This is despite the fact that other surveys show that only a tenth of the Volgograd residents is ready to go out with a rake to clean their hometown. We are not satisfied, but we do not want to create cleanliness and we will wait until the officials responsible for this will do their job. In the meantime we are waiting, you can customize the paper, it is easier than a rake, complain about a negligent official who did not remove the street.

For example, I can’t help but give a quote from a letter from the city residents: “We ask you to force the head of the Sovetsky District Administration to tear your ass and see how one of the main streets of the area entrusted to him - Kazakh St.”. What does this official do? Collects subordinates and announces a grand subbotnik? No! He writes too! The paper will endure everything. He writes to higher officials about how he supports the initiative of residents and asks the Department of Municipal Economy to remove the territory ... So our officials will be engaged in correspondence until our city is completely immersed in darkness and chaos.
But I do not want to talk only about the bad. There are people in our city who are not indifferent to the fate of their hometown who want and are ready to invest in its development, in its improvement. Oddly enough, these are not deputies, only a bright future promising to us, even more so officials who are obliged to do this on duty, nor the so -called social activists who shout here and there slogans about historical justice, then dressing themselves in prominent shirts.

Having walked along the streets of the city, I realized that the cleanliness and order is most needed by business. How else can those oases of cleanliness that here and there arise at hotels, restaurants, and offices of private entrepreneurs? There are well -groomed lawns, and exotic plants, original fountains, special places for car parking and places for recreation for citizens.
We will not go far. Central District of Volgograd. Private hotel "Caucasian captive", located in a busy place on Nevskaya Street. Opposite the municipal dormitory with a municipal dormitory with the collapsing walls and caused by empty boxes of the Novorossiysk market, you can admire the real Japanese garden of stones in the cluster of cars and spend minutes in the cool lawn.

Hotel "Pranel" on Zhukov Avenue, the most lively and hazardous highway of the city, you can see original plants and organized places for parking. "Litehotel" on Chapaeva Street, an asphalt coating on which it is difficult to find, not only surrounds green spaces, but also a flat road.

But the most interesting thing is that entrepreneurs have to pay from their pocket for creating comfort. And not only for the creation of well-groomed territories, but also for fines that authorized bodies are imposed on them with convincing stubbornness, for illegal buildings that the same exotic trees are recognized, then for sidewalks, due to the technological features of laying, also, according to the administration, are illegal.
I would like to ask the authorities of those who are in power - what are the fines that you collect from the hotel at the Novorossiysk or at Chapaev? I did not notice the changes either in the kindergarten on March 8, nor at the municipal hostel in the Novorossiyska ... were there really a millionth tree on the alley of the heroes that turned into light figures of angels?

Well, to say about the "landscaped" territory on the border of the Central and Dzerzhinsky regions of Volgograd, which from childhood amazes me with the dissonance of modern skyscrapers and the wooden hibar surviving her age along the second longitudinal in the place of which car wash and "worlds of chandeliers and ceilings" appear in the last. Who issues permission for miserable buildings built along the main highway of the city on the eve of the 2018 World Cup? They carry neither beauty nor aesthetics, they reject both the townspeople themselves and guests of the city. At the same time, the erected Grand Hotel building at the beginning of Rokossovsky Street is a wonderful symbol of modern architecture, at night, it pleases its neighbors with unique lighting in the near future can simply be destroyed. Once again I state - surrealism ...
There are many examples, but the attitude of the authorities does not change. No, take it, and allocate funds for revival, say, a well -known square to them. On March 8, on the same Chapaev Street, it wasn’t there, it’s easier to close your eyes to the improvement or to declare a citywide subbotnik in order to pose in front of the cameras of journalists.

The officials do not have the strength of the power to take and unite the same business for the benefit of the city, it is easier, as it often happens, to send verification to naughty entrepreneurs, or to expect different blessings from obedient, but already for their loved ones.
So our city has to go dear to the void in the way in the path of answer to the next eternal, written on the city walls ... By the way, we painted the inscription, you look and life will change ...
© Sergey Mazanov, 2013