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At the crossing to the Crimea, another round of the transport crisis ended. It seems to be not for long

This year, instead of Sochi, the Russian authorities began to advertise Crimea. Tens of thousands of vacationers decided to visit the newfound resort, and at the beginning of the season they were faced with problems at the crossing. For the first time in her story, the waiting line was 40 hours for drivers, which led to indignation and fights. There was even information about the inverted car of the State Duma deputy, but she was quickly refuted. But the video on YouTube, where the heated motorists beat each other's muzzles, you will not refute. He collected almost a million views, exposing a simple thought: Kerch was not ready to receive Russian vacationers of the Port Caucasus. The queue is periodically resolved, but with each weather vibration, it is formed again.

Now at the crossing there are six main ferries and three additional, railway. More than 4 thousand cars and almost 20 thousand passengers are transported per day, but this is clearly not enough. On the morning of August 21, I don’t find cars on the Kuban side of the crossing, but the scandal is right there. Muscovite Olga Tsukanova is ready to shake the police for the breasts: “They forced to throw a car in the funded area, brought here, and now there is no minibus back!” Tired police officers advise calling the prosecutor's office.

Poltika borscht for 80 rubles, and without a check - this is not even in Sochi. In the dining room at the bus station, Port Caucasus does not understand what I am dissatisfied with. The last time I was at the crossing in June ( "New", No. 69 dated 06/27/2014 ). Then the border was only removed. There was, of course, a feeling of awkwardness from the use of stolen. But there was a sense of freedom, because the UFMS cabinets suddenly closed, the border guards left, and your passport was not interested in anyone. It remained to remove the wire fences of the customs corridor. But now the state has changed his mind. The FMS works again, before entering the ferry you need to apply a passport to the police window, and there are even more fences. And the bags are now being inspected from and to, as if from Russia you are crossing the United States.

The Olympiada ferry meets with an escalator, carpets and paintings. I can’t believe that you fall into this luxury for 162 rubles. But Nikolai Stepanovich from Bryansk is still not very happy: “I used to get on the Moscow -Kerch train, went through Ukraine and you don’t know problems. Now through Krasnodar it is necessary, all these ferries. You get tired of such a rest. ” Despite the morning, the deck is like a frying pan. You can cool if you go into the hall, but then the Vesti program is on the huge LCD monitors. Having seen the news, passengers excitedly shake their heads and clatter their tongues. It’s good that swim only 20 minutes.

To go down, you need to go through two escalators, but they do not work! “Save electricity,” his man hisses with a huge backpack behind him, with difficulty stepping over the iron steps. Rimma Isufovna Thamokova came from Nalchik to the children, but he cannot lower a huge suitcase along the escalator. I take it to help her, but the pen bounces the handle at the suitcase. "Well, how am I now?" - the woman almost cries.

If there are no queues to the Crimea now, then thousands of cars are waiting for their turn from Crimea. However, the driver Vitaliy Levchenko, who arrived from Severodvinsk, suddenly smiling: “We are waiting only for 12 hours. It's nothing. And soon the bridge will be built, everything will be fine in general. ” Not everyone shares his joyful hope. The Chunyaev family from Tatarstan is a dad with mom and two children screaming in a hot rear seat. The text of the pope about the crossing will not give literally.

In a few years, perhaps there will really be a bridge. In the meantime, they solve the problem with the help of logistics. In June, cars were sent immediately to the crossing, and now you must first go to the Kerch airport (or rather, what is left of it). There they equipped the accumulative area: drivers buy a ticket and receive a ticket with a car number and a queue number. Then the traffic police forms a column from the cars, which accompanies at slow speed to another funded area - a fish port. And only from there cars are directly allowed in the queue for the crossing, and only after the inspection. It is impossible to circumvent the procedure: they will not let go without a ticket and a coupon.

Employees of local shops in a slight disorder: they banned the sale of wine and vodka at the crossing a couple of days ago - so he decided by the Kerch Executive Committee. But everywhere the trays with patriotic products. T -shirts with Putin in black glasses and the inscription "The most polite person." The badges with the inscription “What is fashionable this year? Enter in the Russian Federation. ” Another hit of the season is a large round magnet, where three profiles are painted on a red background. Under the USSR, Lenin, Marx and Engels were painted in the same way, but now it is Putin, Lavrov and someone, similar to Limonov. So who is the turn, and to whom it is profit.

Now he began to operate the steam "St. Petersburg", which connected Kerch with the Novorossiysk. It would seem that an alternative option, but transporting a passenger car on this ferry costs 6700 rubles, and takes a procedure from 9 to 12 hours. Although the matter is not only in time. In the last week of August, the bulk of vacationers will rush home. Then it will become really hot at the crossing.