A week from the life of the Kerch crossing in numbers, facts and reviews
The conflict with Ukraine led to the fact that it is possible to get into Krymnash from Russia in the air in only one way: a ferry through the Kerch Strait. Saving a couple of hours on border control, tourists and locals received a giant transport stream from all who used to enter the Crimea on Ukrainian roads. The ferry crossing is completely dependent on the weather and, as it turned out, does not even have half from the necessary throughput. Recently, ten -kilometer lines, forty -degree heat, fights and death have been recorded at the crossing.
• If you summarize the data of the ANO "United Transport Directorate" , on average, a ferry is transported by a ferry per day in one direction of 1900 cars.
• This is not enough. Throughout the week, the line for crossing was recorded in both directions: at least 430 cars were accumulated from the Port of the Caucasus, at least 670 - from the port of the Port of Crimea.
• On August 14, the line was 2700 cars from Crimea, on August 15 and 17 - 2,300 cars.
• The length of the queue on August 15, according to Kerch.fm , was more than 10 km. The cars stood to the Street of Zavalnikov in Kerch.
• Waiting time in line on August 16, according to ETD, was up to 40 hours.
• To doctors on duty at the crossing, according to Kerch.fm , up to 40 people per day.
• The air temperature in Kerch on August 16 was +35 degrees.
• August 18 at about 12 hours was a storm warning, during which the crossing did not work.
• The cost of transporting vehicles up to 4.2 m long - 1 190 rubles, from 4.2 to 5.1 m - 1,688 rubles, over 5.1 m - 2486 rubles. Motorcycles and scooters without a stroller - 462 rubles. Adult ticket - 162 rubles.
On August 12, the acting head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, said that the people gathered at the crossing turned over the car of the State Duma deputy , who was trying to drive out of turn. He did not name the name of the deputy.
On August 16, unable to withstand the many hours of queue for the ferry crossing, a man born in 1956 died of a heart attack .
On August 16, a woman who tried to drive out of line was shared by a woman. The ambulance confirmed this information . Doctors took the woman to the emergency room and sewn the wound on their heads.
In the video published on Facebook on August 16, people shout: "Two people have already died."
From the open letter of Evita Samozhenova Vladimir Putin :
“... Hello from the line of 1,500 more cars and more than 3,000 people. And, sorry, 2998 already. Grandmother died at night, and an hour ago (now 08/16/2014, 9:04), a man died of cardiac arrest. Someone was looking for a doctor all morning, but he was not here, and the man gave his soul to God in his prime (he was a little more than 50). An ambulance, of course, according to rumors, came, I personally did not see her. But she arrived, as befits the ambulance of the Russian Federation, even when a person was gone. So. People stand in line for the steam for so long that some never wait for the cherished loading ...
I hope your meeting has been successful and now everyone knows how to develop Crimea further. Only now autotourism is now, as I understand it, not in honor. Maybe there are few on airplanes and trains and therefore, here, such hell was arranged on a ferry. So that people drive less cars. You know, it would not be completely superfluous that you and Dmitry Anatolyevich pass as ordinary auto tutorists, incognito, and stood in line for the famous Kerch steam. You know, this was what kings and valiant commanders did so before to identify internal problems. Maybe then order would organize here.
And the order at the Kerch crossing is not enough. He is absent here as a concept. The order here is only in line, because people are united by one common disaster and begin to act together. Otherwise, it is just pitch hell. That in the direction of Crimea, that in the direction of the port of the Caucasus, the road along which there is a turn is in the open air. The nearest decent infrastructure in the drive, but 15 hours of downtime among the steppes, under the scorching sun and hot wind. No wonder that people began to die here.
But the biggest trouble is a series of beneficiaries, which rushes past the line, raising dust on the sidelines and aggravating the already dead situation by this. Moreover, real beneficiaries are not even allowed here. When we stood in line on the ferry towards Crimea (the duration of waiting 28 hours in terrible conditions - with smelly dry closets and, if it was impossible to wash), the car with a sick cerebral palsy patient patiently expected to load with us. The rude police simply did not miss them.
But they spit on the police and freely pass the other category of beneficiaries: these are fat deputies, important prosecutors and just a people who took advantage of the semi -rich service of local steamers and acquired a certificate of disability, pregnancy and other ailments from them for 15,000 rubles (or from the police, allowing you to pass the killing expectation in line.
In general, dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, we are infinitely grateful to you for the fact that you have preserved Crimea for the people. We just can’t understand for which people you retained it. Maybe if you visited the crossing and saw all this horror, you would somehow affect the fact that from a daily turnover the crossing of about 9 million. Rules would allocate an unfortunate million in order to at least pull the tents over the parking lots, so that the unfortunate people would not die from overheating, standing in line for a fermented vapor ... ”

Photo by Evita Samozhenova
Anonymous commentary on the news about the dead and wounded at the Kerch crossing:
“Yesterday we returned home, in the port of Crimea stood for exactly a day with two children (7 and 2 years old) ... We won’t go there anymore, in the port of the mess is full, prices are wound on products - they were looking for milk for the child, and there are no below 100 rubles, in one place 250 rubles. They asked for a package of milk, in addition, they were injured there. Caliness and corruption are complete (pseudo -lancers have to be outparted by the expectant). One deputy with the LDPR with a pregnant wife who has no document confirming the pregnancy, held at midnight, and in the morning he somehow spent the administration somehow to the ferry to circle the queue ... "
Nikita Kirillov : “An hour later I go to the port of Kerch. They say that 2500 cars are waiting in line for steam, I will be 2501, then)))) I got to Kerch! A traffic jam in the port of the Crimea 10 km !!! Do you know that the worst in a vapor traffic jam through the Kerch Strait? This is really a zoop !!!)))))))))))))))))))) There are no conditions for people - there is no toilet, there is no water, and zero of the information! Russia! You always think about your Crimea of the Crimea of the 14th shower for 4500 people!
Rumors:
In addition to “preferential” lists, according to eyewitnesses, there is an opportunity to go in line, paying money - up to 15 thousand rubles. The authorities promise to put cameras to prevent such situations.
( Medialeaks.ru )
According to the recently published list of preferential categories, travelers with infants up to one year, pregnant with 26 weeks, heroes of the Russian Federation, USSR, Veterans of the Second World War, children with disabilities, including State Duma deputies and members of the Federation Council, have the right to travel.
( Gazeta.ru )
One of the women is in line: “These beneficiaries go and go, not everyone is presenting the relevant documents, and someone just manages to slip past. And we all stand and stand. ”( Kerch.com.ru ).